It’s the weekend for civil servant candidates. This Saturday and Sunday there will be 160,134 candidates who will take part in competitive examinations to aspire to a total of 27,509 places in the General State Administration. Exams that will take place in 21 provinces in an extraordinary call to recover the public job offers corresponding to the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, which were delayed in their completion for various reasons, among which the pandemic.
In total, 25,421 free shift and internal promotion positions are offered, to which 2,088 more are added for disability shifts. Most of the places are destined for the General Administrative Body, followed by the Civil Administration Body and the Auxiliary General Body. In addition, ICT, Computer Technicians and Assistants of the State Administration are also included. There are twelve selection processes that begin this Saturday and Sunday with the competitive exams, and that, for those who pass them, will continue later with the competition phase.
The largest number of applicants by far is concentrated in Madrid, with 44,017, more than 25% of the total, well above other cities. With more than 10,000 opponents are Seville and Valladolid, and below Valencia, Málaga, Granada, Las Palmas, Barcelona (5,583) and Alicante. On the part of the Administration, 2,000 people will be deployed to facilitate the completion of the exams, most of them on Sunday, September 17.
In this call, in the free access modality, the most in-demand positions are those corresponding to the General Administrative Body, with 66,968 applicants for 4,333 positions; followed by the General Auxiliary Corps (49,643 candidates for 1,061 places); and Civil Administration Management (20,364 for 2,716 positions). In internal promotion, the highest demand is for the General Administrative Body, with 6,604 applicants.
This call adds a greater number of places than the previous ones by recovering those corresponding to three years. If compared to the public job offer in 2019, at that time 123,000 candidates applied for 10,200 positions. This time there are almost three times as many places at stake.
For the Ministry of Finance, the objective is to “attract talent” to the Administration, and streamline selection processes. In addition, they also indicate that to facilitate access, opposition processes will be decentralized, with exams in 21 provinces and using a web platform for exercises that include a public reading before a court. They also add that the objective is to recover the levels of public employment lost in previous years, correct staff deficits and facilitate their rejuvenation.
In the calls in recent years, the most common profile of the opponent is drawn as a woman and in her thirties. There are almost twice as many women as men, except in technological areas; and by age, the opponents range from 31 to 38 years old according to the different areas.
