Young workers increasingly access the state public service, more than 33 on average, and mainly as contracted workers, indicated on Friday, June 6, the Court of Auditors, which recommends a policy of attractiveness that was specifically addressed to them.
In a report, the Court indicates “a deep transformation of the traditional public service model, historically based on the access to the status of the official at the beginning of a career and for assistance.”
In 1980, the state civil service was used on average at age 21. It is clear that things have changed well: in 2022 the average age of the new participants is 33 years (39 years for public officials and 31 years for contractuals).
Increasingly long studies
The first explanation is simply due to the general elevation of the diploma level (in the public and private sector). Young people are more likely to access smokers, which are also longer, so they then enter the labor market.
In addition, demands in public service have increased from year to year. “The increase in technicalism of certain works has been able to motivate a general elevation of the level of diplomas required,” says the court. In addition, the number of category C positions has been reduced, which do not require baccalaureate.
Graduate young people also seem to favor the state civil service for their first job. More than two out of five young people have already had previous experience in the private sector or on the other hand of the public service (territorial or hospital).
A public service too hierarchical in the eyes of young people?
At the end of their studies, the youngest are so tempted that before admission exams in public service. For them, it is rather “a second stage of their professional career, in the medium term, often within the framework of internal competitions.” The races are ultimately less linear and round trips between the public and private people are more frequent.
Finally, the Court indicates an attractive issue of the public service. She believes that the aspirations of the youngest generations (search for meaning at work, flexible organization, less hierarchical relationships, “may face the representation they have of it or the reality of state public service practices.”
More contracted workers
In addition, among the approximately 250,000 new recruits in 2022, more than 70% have been recruited as contract workers, against more than 20% as an official (the rest are apprentices, state workers or teachers of private establishments under contract).
The court notes also observe a “boom in the temporary contracts of limited term”, half of which is less than a year, one third between one and three years and only 1 in 10 years for three years, which induces greater volatility of the workforce.
“Among the agents they returned in 2020 to public administrations, 91% of the holders are still present two years later and 94% of those under 30. On the other hand, the contracted workers are only present in 2023” and 44% among children under 30.
Among the challenges of the state public service, the Court significantly indicates “significant aging linked to the elongation of races”, which makes “retirement mass for retirement in the coming years.”
Source: BFM TV
