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Updated Friday, March 22, 2024-16:53

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The Minister for Digital Transformation and the Public Service,

José Luis Escrivá

, wants to implement an "innovative" access route inspired by the MIR of doctors for technological professionals who want to join the Public Service, as well as shorten waiting times. exams to enter the Public Administration.

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The times that the exams last are intolerably long

and that generates a lot of uncertainty and a lot of cost to the opponents," Escrivá stressed during his participation in an appearance in the Senate to explain the main lines of action of his department, as reported by

Europa Press.

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Thus, he has indicated that these are some of the lines that are being worked on within the

Junior Talent Plan for the modernization of the Public Administration

, given the "absolute" need to reinforce the workforce with ICT professions, which are increasingly " most necessary".

In addition, the Public Service wants to design

a talent recruitment plan and shorten the deadlines

for joining the public service so that the execution of Public Employment Offers cannot last more than 12 months.

Likewise, he has stressed that

the Government continues to work to eliminate the replacement rate by 2025

and create a new human resources and career model based on tasks and skills necessary to perform the different positions that may be filled.

Regarding the latter, he has indicated that it will be a horizontal and vertical career model organized by functional areas and that he wants to bring it to the entire General State Administration (AGE). Thus, he has given an example of a career model based on six levels within the hiring functional area.

"We have to go to a model by levels and competencies," Escrivá stressed. "We are working on it, we are working to have it ready as soon as possible, but this is a wicker, a central basic element for many of the things we have to do," he stressed.

Likewise, to guarantee the rapid response of administrations to changing situations and strengthen their capacity to adapt to external

shocks

, Public Function wants to create an area of ​​operations for the state public sector that can respond to unexpected crises, such as the pandemic, or wide-ranging challenges, such as managing recovery plans, that take advantage of the talent and experience of more senior workers.

TECHNOLOGICAL LABORATORIES

On the other hand, Escrivá has announced that next week a consensus document for an Open Administration will be published, which will be the first step to deploy the technological laboratories with which the Government wants to innovate the Public Administration.

From there, during the second part of this semester, Public Function wants to have the design of the working groups of these public innovation laboratories, so that in the third quarter they can bring to public consultation the results of the working groups in the

Laboratory of Innovation. Hazlab Citizen Participation

, to be able to deploy them in the last quarter of the year.

"2024 has to be a fundamentally year of experimentation to be able to have 2025, a year in which, based on all the experience we have accumulated, we can, let's say, scale and design some operating elements in this area," he stressed.