Internal promotion in the public service

Internal promotion is a device that allows you to access, during your career, a new employment framework higher than your home-based employment framework.

Internal promotion provides access to higher-level jobs and employment and a higher pay scale.

The special status of each post office shall define which officials may be granted access by internal promotion.

Internal promotion is reserved for civil servants holders.

To qualify for an internal promotion, you must meet the conditions laid down in special status of the employment framework to which you are entitled by internal promotion.

Conditions may include:

• Age requirements
• And/or seniority conditions: in your hierarchical category (A, B or C) and/or in your job and/or grade
• And/or conditions of employment (e.g. having held such a job for a specified period, a managerial job)
• And/or training conditions (having completed a minimum period of vocational training)

You must meet the requirements of 1^er January of the year in which the promotion occurs.

Internal promotion within a new job framework can be carried out at your choice or after professional examination.

The special status of a job manager may provide for one or both of these internal promotion procedures.

When the 2 internal promotion procedures are provided for, they are addressed to officials which fulfill different conditions.

When internal promotion is made at the choice, your employing community (or the management center if your community is affiliated to the management center) selects the officials who may be promoted from among those who meet the conditions laid down in the special status of the host employment framework.

The choice is made in view of professional value and acquired from professional experience public servants.

Your employer community (or the management center) specifies, as part of its management guidelines, the conditions for taking into account professional value and professional experience, in particular by means of the following criteria:

• Diversity of background and functions performed
• Trainings taken
• Specific conditions of exercise attesting to professional commitment, adaptability and, where appropriate, the ability to supervise teams

When internal promotion takes place after professional examinationHowever, the officials who may be promoted are those who are admitted to the professional examination.

You may take the examination no sooner than 1 year before the date on which you qualify for internal promotion.

Whether promoted on a voluntary basis or after a professional examination, the officials selected or admitted to the examination shall be placed on a list of suitable candidates.

The eligibility list is established by your employer community or by the management center (if your community is affiliated with the management center) or by the CNFPT: titleContent (in the case of internal promotion after professional examination for managers of directors and chief engineers).

Entry on the list of suitable candidates shall not be considered as recruitment.

Your employer community is not obliged to recruit you.

You must apply for a vacancy corresponding to the grade to which you are promoted.

The list of suitable candidates is national: you can apply for and be recruited on a job throughout France.

You remain on the list of suitable candidates for 2 years.

When a community decides to recruit you, it sends you its offer by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

If you do not respond within 2 months, you are considered to be refusing the job offer.

If you refuse 2 job offers, you are removed from the list of suitable candidates.

If at the end of the 2 years following your entry on the list of suitable candidates you have not found a job, you may ask in writing to the administrative authority which drew up the list of suitable candidates for re-entry for a period of 3 years^e year.

And if at the end of the 3 years you have not found a job, you can apply to be re-enrolled for a 4^e year.

If at the end of the 4 years you have not found a job, you lose the benefit of your promotion.

You must submit your request for re-enrollment on the Eligibility List at least 1 month before the end date of your current enrollment.

The period of up to 4 years of entry on the list of suitable candidates shall be suspended for the following periods:

• Parental, maternity, adoption, parental and family solidarity leave
• Long-term leave
• Fulfillment of local elected office
• Recruitment on a temporary basis as a contractor in the territorial civil service to replace an employee or contractor who is temporarily unavailable on a job within the job framework for which you are promoted
• Civic service engagement

The number of internal promotions that can be made is limited.

All job managers provide thatan internal promotion pronounced for 2 recruitment in the context of the posts concerned.

Recruitment for internal promotions shall be recruitment by admission to a competition, by transfer, detachment, direct integration or by establishment of a disabled person at the end of a fixed term.

The number of possible internal promotions is recalculated each year at the level of your employer community or management center or the NCTF.

The number of officials on the lists of suitable candidates may not exceed the number of possible promotions.

Where no internal promotion could be made in the context of employment for at least 2 years, 1 internal promotion is possible if at least 1 recruitment has taken part in the relevant posts during those two years.

In addition, for most category A and B job managers, an alternative rule for calculating the number of possible promotions may be applied if more favorable the rule of 1 promotion for 2 recruitments.

The number of possible appointments by internal promotion (at the choice and after professional examination) can thus be calculated by applying the proportion of 1 promotion for 2 recruitments to  8% the number of contract staff on permanent contracts and officials in active employment or on secondment to the posts concerned.

Depending on the special status of your host employment framework, you may be subject to a period of internship or directly established.

The conditions of classification in your new job framework are also determined by the special status.

You are removed from the list of suitable candidates from the date of your appointment as an intern or your tenure (if you are exempt from internship).

Internal promotion is a device that allows you to access, during your career, a new body higher than your home body.

Internal promotion provides access to higher-level jobs and employment and a higher pay scale.

The change of body through internal promotion can only take place within the same public service.

The special status of each body shall define which officials may be granted access by internal promotion.

Internal promotion is reserved for civil servants holders.

To qualify for an internal promotion, you must meet the conditions laid down in special statusof the body to which you are entitled by internal promotion.

Conditions may include:

• Age requirements
• And/or seniority requirements: in your hierarchical category (A, B or C) and/or in your body and/or grade
• And/or conditions of employment (e.g. having held such a job for a specified period, a managerial job)
• And/or training conditions (having completed a minimum period of vocational training)

You must meet the requirements of 1^er January of the year in which the promotion occurs.

Internal promotion into a new body can be done at your choice or after professional examination.

The particular status of a body may provide for one or both of these internal promotion procedures.

When the 2 internal promotion procedures are provided for, they are addressed to officials which fulfill different conditions.

When internal promotion is made at the choice, your employer administration shall select the officials it wishes to promote from among those who fulfill the conditions laid down in the special staff regulations of the host institution.

The choice is made in view of professional value and acquired from professional experience public servants.

The employer's administration shall specify, within the framework of its management guidelines, the conditions for taking into account professional value and the acquired professional experience, in particular by means of the following criteria:

• Diversity of background and functions performed
• Trainings taken
• Specific conditions of exercise attesting to professional commitment, adaptability and, where appropriate, the ability to supervise teams

When internal promotion takes place after professional examinationHowever, officials promoted shall be those who are admitted to the examinations for a professional examination.

Whether promoted on a voluntary basis or after a professional examination, the officials selected or admitted to the examination shall be placed on a list of suitable candidates.

Entry on the list of suitable candidates shall not be considered as recruitment.

You must apply for a vacancy corresponding to the grade to which you are promoted.

The number of internal promotions that can be made is limited.

This number of possible promotions is determined by the particular status of the body concerned.

It is recalculated every year.

Depending on the special status of your host body, you may be subject to a period of internship or directly established.

The conditions of classification in your new body are also determined by the special status.

You are removed from the list of suitable candidates from the date of your appointment as an intern or your tenure (if you are exempt from internship).