With significant changes in the process and with the aim of leaving behind the delays of the past and to ensure meritocracy, speed and transparency, the ASEP It launches the second Panhellenic written competition for the State.
The competition enters in the final line as the application process was completed. The 47.410s who have been involved begins the preparation with the expectation of high performance and their immediate positioning, which is the demand for everyone, for the government, the independent authority and of course the candidates.
The experience of the first competition with the slow absorption of the appointed may be the main reason for the reduced entries over the previous written test, for which more than 108,000 applications had been submitted.
The deputy minister Internal Vivi Charalambogianni said that by the end of the year The “tank” with the appointed will be ready and it is expected that absorption will begin by early 2026.
For the delay In the appointment of the successfuls of the first competition, In 2023, the Deputy Minister said that “the first competition began with two approved two plannings, 2022 and 2023. With the new provision established in October, it is now possible to absorb success by the first competition and in 2024 and 2025. Successful people will sit on the chair, “concluded Ms. Charalambogiannis.
The philosophy of the competition is changing the President states of ASEP, Thanasis Papaioannou explains: “The procedures are modernized as our times impose. Based on the experience we have gained from the conduct of written electronic examinations, such as the selection of public authorities or even forests, we are organizing an electronic competition for the selection of staff in the wider State for the first time. Candidates will compete in front of a computer, which will lead to a faster version of the candidates’ score. “
Through this competition will be covered State needs for categories staff University (IP) and Technological Education (TE) for 2026 and 2027, in the context of recruitment planning approved by the Council of Ministers each year. This means that those who do not participate in the competition will have no other opportunity to appoint at least until the next written competition.
As for the successfuls of the first written competition, Mr. Papaioannou notes that on the basis of numbers Most of them had an opportunity for appointment. He states that a total of 14,837, of which 1,371 did not apply for any notice of 2024.
For the 13,466 candidates, a total of 6,119 seats were announced from the planning of 2022, 2023 and 2024 while by the planning of 2025 2,084 TE seats were announced while the announcement of another 4,242 seats are expected. That is, for the 13,466 candidates, there has been and will have an opportunity to appoint 12,445 positions. It should be noted that so far there are 600 nominees of 2024 who did not accept their appointment.
Clarifications have already been given to the next tender for the procedure and the timetable. Conduct dates will depend by the number of applications submitted and from the distribution of candidates in Athens and Thessaloniki. It is estimated that the electronic examination will begin in mid -June at the Athens Examination Center (in Maroussi) and then in Thessaloniki and will be completed by the end of July.
After setting the days of the competition, an electronic platform will be opened, through which candidates will select the examination center as well as the day and time they wish to be examined. If they do not do so, their distribution will be done electronically by ASEP itself.
The exams will be done electronically by the Multiple Choice methods and includes two modules: knowledge examination and skill test – work efficiency.
In the knowledge examination, candidates will be asked to answer questions related to sections a) Constitutional Law, b) Administrative Law, c) European Institutions and Law, d) Economic Sciences, (e) Public Administration and Human Resources Management, F) Information and Digital Government and Digital Government.
The questions will be drawn by drawing from the issues bank created by ASEP. There are three groups of 400 knowledge questions from all the thematic sections with the four possible answers, and the right answer will be mentioned. Questions will be gradually released, almost two weeks before the exams, depending on the time of the competition. From the first team will be asked the questions for those who compete in the first few days, from the second for those who then compete and from the third for those who will be examined in recent days.
It will be more difficult to test skills and work efficiency, as it will require more complex thinking, and in this case there will be no questions with the right answers but only questions will be posted. Will be evaluated, in particular, Skills such as productive and inductive reasoning, while working behaviors will be examined related to the Single Skills Framework, namely (a) citizen orientation, b) teamwork, c) adaptability, d) outcome orientation, e) organization and planning, (f) problem solving and creativity, g) professionalism and integrity, h) Knowledge management and i).
The score of the written procedure is set on a scale of 1-100 while the gravity of the score for the test and work efficiency test and knowledge examination is the same (50%-50%). Unlike the first competition, there is no base rating, which means that there will be no separation of successful and failure.
As happened in the first Contest, the candidates (this time everyone and not only the “successful”) will enter In a rating table by category and branch/specialty (first stage), in order to participate in the second stage, in the notices of filling in respective sectors/specialties in public bodies (central administration, decentralized administrations, independent authorities, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs, NPAs.
Recruitment per body will be made in order of priority based on the exam rating, which will count additional qualifications (postgraduate, foreign languages, etc.), locality and special social criteria.