Period of professionalization in the State Civil Service (EPF)

Verified 24 July 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Are you a public official (civil servant or contract employee) and have a professional project? The period of professionalization, which is a dual training system, can be a solution. It can allow you to perform new functions. The period of professionalization may take place at the request of the administration or the staff member. Its duration varies from 3 to 12 months. We're giving you the regulations to know.

You're a public servant

A period of professionalization consists of alternate :

  • Work (service activity)
  • And training.

The purpose of the professionalization period is to enable a professional project to be carried out within a State, territorial or hospital administration. This project aims to access a job requiring new skills or corresponding to different professional activities

It can also allow you, if you are in activity, to access another body or framework of uses of the same level and category.

The period of professionalization:

  • Is adapted to the specific job you are trying to achieve
  • May be in a different job than the previous assignment.

The period of professionalization may be requested:

  • By you
  • Or by your administration.

Your department head has 2 months for:

  • Accept your request
  • Reject your request and give reasons for its refusal. He shall seek the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Please note

Alone 2% of the total number of staff of the service or center concerned may be admitted during a period of professionalization, unless the administration concerned decides otherwise.

If the service has fewer than 50 staff, acceptance of a period of professionalization may be postponed if another staff member already benefits from it.

Training can take place in whole or in part out of service.

They can be monitored as part of the hours acquired on the personal training account (PTA), after your written consent.

The period of professionalization lasts from 3 to 12 months.

The implementation of a period of professionalization results in an agreement between you and the administrations concerned.

This Convention defines:

  • Functions for which you are intended
  • Duration of the period of professionalization
  • Qualifications to be acquired
  • Planned training.

FYI  

The agreement also specifies whether the period of professionalization is intended to allow you to access to a new corps or framework of jobs. It must then obtain the approval of the authority or authorities empowered to make the secondment and integration into the body or framework of the post of destination.

You're in activity position in your original body.

Your remuneration is maintained.

If the purpose of the professionalization period is to give you access to another corps, an evaluation is carried out at the end of the period.

The evaluation shall:

The assessment is followed up by an interview conducted by your supervisor in your host position. This interview takes place in the presence of your guardian.

If you are deemed fit, you are seconded to the host corps.

After 2 years of detachment, you can ask to be integrated into this body.

You're contractual

A period of professionalization consists of alternate :

  • Work (service activity)
  • And training.

The purpose of the professionalization period is to enable a professional project to be carried out within a State, territorial or hospital administration.

It also aims to gain access to a job requiring new skills or corresponding to different professional activities.

The period of professionalization:

  • Is adapted to the specific job you are trying to achieve
  • May take place in a job other than his previous assignment.

The period of professionalization may be requested:

  • By you
  • Or by your administration.

Your department head has 2 months for:

  • Accept your request
  • Reject your request and give reasons for its refusal. He shall seek the opinion of the HEADING: titleContent.

Please note

Alone 2% of the total number of staff of the service or center concerned may be admitted during a period of professionalization, unless the administration concerned decides otherwise.

If the service has fewer than 50 staff, acceptance of a period of professionalization may be postponed if another staff member already benefits from it.

Training can take place in whole or in part out of service.

They can be monitored as part of the hours acquired on the personal training account (PTA), after your written consent.

The period of professionalization lasts from 3 to 12 months.

The implementation of a period of professionalization results in an agreement between you and the administrations concerned.

This Convention defines:

  • Functions for which you are intended
  • Duration of the period
  • Qualifications to be acquired
  • Planned training.