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Public agent: how to prepare for a competition?
Verified 09 August 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You can receive training to prepare you for the exams of the competitions and professional exams of the public service.
What applies to you ?
State Civil Service (EPF)
Official
You can receive training in preparation for written and/or oral tests of professional competitions and exams.
The competitions and examinations concerned may be competitions or examinations for access to body or to grades advancement of the State Civil Service.
It may also involve competitions or examinations for access to territorial employment offices or hospital bodies or to posts in the institutions of the European Union.
Such training may be organized by the administration or by external training bodies approved by the administration.
Such training can be delivered in person, by mail order or online.
They can take place in whole or in part on your working time.
If the training takes place during working time, your request for absence may not be refused if the duration of the training is less than 6 full-time working days per year.
The request for absence may, however, be postponed a maximum of 2 times if service requirements impose it.
You can use your acquired training rights on your personal training account or apply for the benefit of vocational leave to prepare for a competition or exam.
You can also optionally use your saved days on your time savings account to take you away.
If you have completed preparation for a competition on your working time, you may not be granted vocational training leave until at least 12 months after the completion of that preparation.
In order to promote your professional development, you have priority access to training in preparation for the competitions and professional exams if you are in one of the following situations:
- You belong to a body category C and you don't have the bachelor's degree
- You have a disability and you are entitled to theobligation to employ
- It is established, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, in view of your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear
When the training you request is provided by your employer administration, you automatically receive it.
If you have more than one course that matches your request, your employer administration may decide to send you the course it provides itself.
If the training envisaged is not provided by your employer administration, the conditions for implementing your priority access are specified by ministerial decree.
You can also ask for personalized support to help you develop and implement your professional project.
Contractual
You may receive training to prepare you for the written and/or oral tests of the competitions if you meet the conditions required to enter the relevant competition at the latest at the end of the training.
The competitions concerned may be competitions for access to body of the State Civil Service.
It may also involve competitions for access to territorial employment frameworks or hospital bodies or to jobs in the institutions of the European Union.
Such training may be organized by the administration or by external training bodies approved by the administration.
Such training can be delivered in person, by mail order or online.
They can take place in whole or in part on your working time.
If the training takes place during working time, your request for absence may not be refused if the duration of the training is less than 6 full-time working days per year.
The request for absence may, however, be postponed a maximum of 2 times if service requirements impose it.
If you are not accepted in the competition for which you have been prepared, you may be granted leave to take the same training a second time.
In this case, you may not be granted leave to take a new training course in preparation for the tests of a competition within 2 years of the end of this second preparation.
You can use your acquired training rights on your personal training account or apply for the benefit of vocational leave to prepare a contest.
You can also optionally use your saved days on your time savings account to take you away.
If you have completed preparation for a competition on your working time, you may not be granted vocational training leave until at least 12 months after the completion of that preparation.
In order to promote your professional development, you will have priority access to training in preparation for the competitions if you are in one of the following situations:
- You have a job in category C and you don't have the bachelor's degree
- You have a disability and you are entitled to theobligation to employ
- It is established, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, in view of your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear
When the training you request is provided by your employer administration, you automatically receive it.
If you have more than one course that matches your request, your employer administration may decide to send you the course it provides itself.
If the training envisaged is not provided by your employer administration, the conditions for implementing your priority access are specified by ministerial decree.
You can also ask for personalized support to help you develop and implement your professional project.
Territorial (FPT)
Official
You can receive training in preparation for written and/or oral tests of professional competitions and exams, subject to operational requirements.
The competitions and examinations concerned may be competitions or examinations for access to job managers or to grades promotion of the territorial civil service.
It may also involve competitions or examinations for access to State or hospital bodies or to posts in the institutions of the European Union.
These trainings can take place in-person or remotely.
They can take place on your working time.
Preparations for competitions and professional examinations in the territorial civil service are organized in particular by the CNFPT: titleContent.
When you have received training in preparation for the tests of a competition or professional examination during your working time, you may not receive further training in preparation for the tests of a competition or professional examination until at least 12 months after the end of your 1re training.
This duration is reduced to 6 months if the duration of your 1re training was less than 8 working days, divided or not, and if the cumulative duration of the 2 courses does not exceed 8 working days in a 12-month period.
These 6 or 12 month deadlines do not apply if you have not been able to fully follow your 1re training due to operational requirements.
You can use your acquired training rights on your personal training account to prepare for a competition or exam.
In order to promote your professional development, you have priority access to training in preparation for the competitions and professional exams if you are in one of the following situations:
- You belong to a body category C and you don't have the bachelor's degree
- You have a disability and you are entitled to theobligation to employ
- It is established, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, in view of your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear
When the training you request is provided by your employer administration, you automatically receive it.
If you have more than one course that matches your request, your employer administration may decide to send you the course it provides itself.
If the training envisaged is not provided by your employer administration, the conditions for implementing your priority access are specified by ministerial decree.
You can also ask for personalized support to help you develop and implement your professional project.
Contractual
You may receive training in preparation for written and/or oral tests of competitions, subject to operational requirements.
The competitions concerned may be competitions for access to job managers of the territorial civil service.
It may also involve competitions for access to State or hospital bodies or to posts in the EU institutions.
These trainings can take place in-person or remotely.
They can take place on your working time.
Preparations for competitions in the territorial civil service are organized in particular by the CNFPT: titleContent.
When you have received training in preparation for the tests of a competition during your working time, you may not receive new training in preparation for the tests of a competition until at least 12 months after the end of your 1re training.
This duration is reduced to 6 months if the duration of your 1re training was less than 8 working days, divided or not, and if the cumulative duration of the 2 courses does not exceed 8 working days in a 12-month period.
These 6 or 12 month deadlines do not apply if you have not been able to fully follow your 1re training due to operational requirements.
You can use your acquired training rights on your personal training account to prepare a contest.
In order to promote your professional development, you will have priority access to training in preparation for the competitions if you are in one of the following situations:
- You belong to a body category C and you don't have the bachelor's degree
- You have a disability and you are entitled to theobligation to employ
- It is established, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, in view of your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear
When the training you request is provided by your employer administration, you automatically receive it.
If you have more than one course that matches your request, your employer administration may decide to send you the course it provides itself.
If the training envisaged is not provided by your employer administration, the conditions for implementing your priority access are specified by ministerial decree.
You can also ask for personalized support to help you develop and implement your professional project.
Hospital (FPH)
Official
You can receive training in preparation for written and/or oral tests of professional competitions and exams, subject to service requirements.
The competitions and examinations concerned may be competitions or examinations for access to body or to grades the advancement of the hospital public service.
They may also include competitions or examinations for access to territorial employment frameworks or to State bodies or to posts in the institutions of the European Union.
Preparations for competitions and professional examinations in the hospital public service are organized by the National Association for the Continuing Training of Hospital Staff (ANFH).
Training to prepare you for the tests of a competition or a professional examination is mandatory when you have not received such training for 3 years.
However, your employer's administration may delay your departure for training for a maximum of one year because of service requirements after the HEADING: titleContent.
You may not be refused training in preparation for the tests of a competition or a professional examination twice unless the CAP has given its opinion.
Training can take place by correspondence or online.
They may take place in whole or in part, during your working time, when the nature of the preparation warrants it or outside working hours.
When the training takes place during working hours, you may be granted leave to complete all or part of the training.
You must be granted these absence authorizations when they are less than or equal to 5 full-time working days per year.
However, your employing institution may defer your absence authorizations due to service requirements, unless you request them for the 3e times.
You can use your acquired training rights on your personal training account or apply for the benefit of vocational leave to prepare for a competition or exam.
If you have completed preparation for a competition on your working time, you may not be granted vocational training leave until at least 12 months after the completion of that preparation.
In order to promote your professional development, you have priority access to training in preparation for the competitions and professional exams if you are in one of the following situations:
- You belong to a body category C and you don't have the bachelor's degree
- You have a disability and you are entitled to theobligation to employ
- It is established, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, in view of your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear
When the training you request is provided by your employer administration, you automatically receive it.
If you have more than one course that matches your request, your employer administration may decide to send you the course it provides itself.
If the training envisaged is not provided by your employer administration, the conditions for implementing your priority access are specified by ministerial decree.
You can also ask for personalized support to help you develop and implement your professional project.
Contractual
You may receive training in preparation for written and/or oral tests of competitions, subject to service requirements.
The competitions concerned may be competitions for access to body hospital civil service.
It may also involve competitions for territorial employment managers or state bodies or for posts in the EU institutions.
Preparations for competitions in the hospital civil service are organized in particular by the National Association for the Continuing Training of Hospital Staff (ANFH).
You must be given training to prepare for the tests of a competition if you have not received such training for 3 years.
However, your employer's administration may delay your departure for training for a maximum of one year because of service requirements after the CCP: titleContent.
You may not be refused training in preparation for the tests in a competition twice unless the CPC has given its opinion.
Training can take place by correspondence or online.
They may take place in whole or in part, during your working time, when the nature of the preparation warrants it or outside working hours.
When the training takes place during working hours, you may be granted leave to complete all or part of the training.
You must be granted these absence authorizations when they are less than or equal to 5 full-time working days per year.
However, your employing institution may defer your absence authorizations due to service requirements, unless you request them for the 3e times.
You can use your acquired training rights on your personal training account or apply for the benefit of vocational leave to prepare a contest.
If you have completed preparation for a competition on your working time, you may not be granted vocational training leave until at least 12 months after the completion of that preparation.
In order to promote your professional development, you will have priority access to training in preparation for the competitions if you are in one of the following situations:
- You belong to a body category C and you don't have the bachelor's degree
- You have a disability and you are entitled to theobligation to employ
- It is established, after consulting the occupational doctor, that you are particularly exposed, in view of your individual professional situation, to a risk of professional wear and tear
When the training you request is provided by your employer administration, you automatically receive it.
If you have more than one course that matches your request, your employer administration may decide to send you the course it provides itself.
If the training envisaged is not provided by your employer administration, the conditions for implementing your priority access are specified by ministerial decree.
You can also ask for personalized support to help you develop and implement your professional project.
- Civil Service Code: Articles L422-21 to L422-27
- Decree No. 2007-1470 of 15 October 2007 on lifelong vocational training for State officialsArticles 19 to 21, 26
- Decree No. 2007-1942 of 26 December 2007 on vocational training for non-permanent staff and State workersArticles 6, 7
- Decree No. 2007-1845 of 26 December 2007 on lifelong vocational training for territorial civil servantsArticles 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 14, 41, 45
- Decree No. 2008-824 of 21 August 2008 on lifelong vocational training for hospital civil servantsArticles 1 (3°), 22 to 24
- Circular of 10 May 2017 on the arrangements for implementing the personal activity account in the public service (PDF - 247.0 KB)
- Seeking training in the (State civil service)
Online service
- Calendar of competitions for the State Civil ServiceMinistry of Public Service
- Competition from territorial public service management centersNational Federation of Territorial Public Service Management Centers (FNCDG)
- Competitions and exams organized by the CNFPTNational Center for Territorial Public Service (CNFPT)
- Hospital Public Service (HPF) Competition PortalMinistry of Health
- City of Paris ContestCity of Paris
- Public assistance - Hôpitals de Paris (AP-HP): recruitment areaPublic Assistance - Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP)
- European Personnel Selection Office (Epso) websiteEuropean Commission