Flash contests in the PA: successes and failures
What happened in the most recent public administration competitions
The " fat cow years " for employment in the PA seem to have begun. 61,666 people have submitted their applications on the Public Administration portal for the 1,000 recruitment notice . Those selected will be assigned collaborative tasks with the Regions to support local administrations in the management and simplification of the procedures related to the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr) . "A record response – commented the Minister for Public Administration – which testifies to the change of pace both in the selection procedures, speeded up and facilitated thanks to the inPA portal, and, above all, in the attractiveness of the PA".
The needs of the Regions
"The Regions – explained Minister Brunetta – have already sent their needs to the Department of Public Administration, which will now provide them with a coherent list of professionals and experts, selected through inPA based on their curriculum and area of activity, to facilitate the comparative procedures for the assignment of offices. Engineers, architects, biologists, chemists, physicists, legal, digital and management experts, computer scientists, statisticians, agronomists, geologists, surveyors: they are among those who will form the ' Pnrr emergency response ' teams to eliminate the bottlenecks on the territories, to support local administrations in the management of complex procedures, from tenders to environmental authorizations, and accelerate the implementation of projects and investments "
The timings
The Department of the Civil Service will transmit to the Regions the lists of professionals generated by the portal , divided by profile and by territorial area by 10 December. At this point the ball passes to the regional administrations who must send a number of candidates equal to at least four times the number of professional skills required to the selective interview. By December 31st the administrations will have to identify the professionals to whom to confer the assignment.
The recruiting portal
The applications arrived through the Recruitment Portal , a unique digital platform for accessing jobs in the Public Administration developed by the Department of the Public Administration which boasts a partnership with Linkedin . "In the next five years there will be over one million new temporary hires in the Public Administration thanks to the projects and resources of the Pnrr ”, said the Minister of Public Administration Renato Brunetta presenting the portal. “The competitions today are digital only and this means that they are concluded, from the announcement to the determination of the winners, in less than 100 days. The average is 87 days, ”added the minister. “This is still a year of emergency and recovery, the next will be the boom years. Over the next 5 years we will hire 1.3 million professionals who will have to help public administrations plan the resources of the NRP. The new InPa portal will be used to recruit this human capital ”.
The controversy
The initiative was not without controversy. "The" recruitment portal ", vulgo inPA.gov.it, prepared by the Department of Public Administration to acquire from the outside the talents necessary for the execution of projects financed by the PNRR, is an excellent example of how services are NOT designed digital publics – writes Roberto Reale , innovation manager who oversaw e-government projects at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , at the Chamber of Deputies, and who has been managing European projects at the Agency for Digital Italy since 2018 -. In spite of any logic of interoperability and application cooperation, the portal does not allow the automatic import of data (from LinkedIn, from Google Scholar, from the Europass ecosystem) but forces candidates to waste time in a disheartening data entry job . Hours if not whole days, for example, for those who have dozens of publications to insert. Probably a taste of what the activities entrusted to the aforementioned experts will be like ". The duration of the call is also controversial. "On the procedural aspects (a call opened on 30/11 expiring on 6/12) I do not even pronounce", concludes Reale.
The flop of the competition for the South
Last summer, the new bankruptcy procedures devised by the Minister of Public Administration had registered a first flop with the Competition for the South . Candidates were offered a 3-year contract, with a salary of 1,400 euros per month and with no certain prospects for the future. Furthermore, with the preselections based on qualifications and experience , the Competition for the South risked " cutting " out the recent graduates and only including professionals, aged 35-40, for whom a three-year contract with an average salary was not too much. tempting. Many of the 81,000 candidates who initially filled out the application and who had all the requisites , qualifications, skills and pure experience, did not show up for the selections. Of the 2,800 candidates sought , only 821 were hired . The rate of suitable candidates reached 53 per cent while the turnout was 36 per cent (37 thousand out of 102 thousand subscribers). A half flop that had to be remedied with a new competition notice.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/concorsi-lampo-nella-pa-successi-e-insuccessi/ on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 16:11:57 +0000.