INAP handled 130,000 applications to participate in competitions and trained 55,000 people employed in the Administration in the year 2021

04/01/2022

The National Institute of Public Administration (INAP), as a body that manages the selective processes related to all the Bodies and Scales attached to the Ministry of Finance and Public Service, was responsible in 2021 for the call of 10,254 places for entry, access and job stabilization in the General Administration of the State. Nearly 130,000 applications were received to participate in the various selective processes.

This call included some of the changes contained in the document ‘Guidelines for the change in selection in the General Administration of the State’, with the reduction in the number of exercises, the unification of compatible tests or the performance of more than one exercise on the same day, even if they were eliminated.

INAP has also worked in 2021 to support people who are preparing competitions. Thus, he has been offering online learning experiences ‘At your pace’ to support the study with a view to the tests of access, internal promotion or stabilization of temporary employment, the General Administrative Body of the State Administration and the General Auxiliary Body of the State Administration.

With a view to 2022, the Training Plan and its general conditions for 2022 were published on 13 December. It is a comprehensive plan, which includes training activities aimed at all public administrations under the same umbrella, that is, those aimed at the personnel of the State Administration, as well as that of local authorities, the autonomous administration and universities, among others.

Among the training activities, in addition to those that favor autonomous learning to prepare competitions, the second edition of the Master's Degree in Public Management and Leadership, the steps taken to develop digital training, as well as the days and debates on public employment and the impact of the Recovery Plan on administrative modernization.

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