2023-05-04 20:00:02
Stanislas Guerini gave of himself. For the first fair devoted to public employment since 2016, the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service chained round tables and strolls among the fifty stands set up at Station F (a start-up incubator created by Xavier Niel, also an individual shareholder of the Monde), in Paris, Thursday, May 4. Objective: launch a recruitment campaign and praise the merits of the administration to the 5,000 registered visitors, including 40% unemployed, 40% civil servants undergoing retraining and 15% students.
Because, affected by recurring difficulties in attracting young people, the civil service currently has 58,000 vacancies. While the government was counting on a stable workforce in 2022, it has actually seen a drop in the number of civil servants by 5,800 jobs due to recruitment issues.
Thursday morning, during a round table open to visitors to the show, Mr. Guerini launched “a counter-offensive for the public service, to show how much we can be the most attractive employers in the country, offer you jobs…” Because, he admitted, “rarely in the history of the public service have you been needed”. Challenges “that we have to take up together”underlined the minister, have “never been so big: ecological, digital, demographic…” And so, “we need the return of public power to our territories”.
“A Thousand Trades”
He then boasted “the most incredible careers and diversity of professions”. “There are a thousand jobs in the public service”, he hammered. Third message: this one “is changing, much faster and stronger than what our public debate suggests”. “I’m sick of the official-bashing”, he sighed. Repeatedly asserting that he had no “no taboos”the Minister promised to move the competitions, to allow the direct tenure of apprentices, to value merit, to propose “coworking spaces” or the prevention of professional wear and tear. The same morning on France 2Mr. Guerini had announced that he would soon meet the unions to discuss wage increases.
In the bays of the show, the exhibitors tried to highlight the opportunities offered by the administration. The national gendarmerie seeks to recruit 12,000 people in 2023: it is 2,000 more than usual in anticipation of the 2024 Olympic Games. This type of fair is important, estimates the marshal of the logis, Loris Méchin, recruiter. This allows, he says, to show the diversity of the three hundred professions offered by the gendarmerie, “to explain the meaning of our institution, our values because people often confuse us with the police”.
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