France: Portail de la Fonction Publique (DGAFP)

Overview

France's public sector recruits through competitive exams (concours) across its three branches — state, territorial and hospital — coordinated at policy level by the DGAFP, with vacancies searchable via the Place de l'emploi public portal. It functions as France's national public-service commission structure.

About Direction générale de l'administration et de la fonction publique (DGAFP)

The DGAFP (Direction générale de l'administration et de la fonction publique) oversees France's civil service (fonction publique), which is organized into three distinct branches — state, territorial and hospital — each with its own recruitment processes typically built around a concours (competitive examination).

Coverage & Financial Benefits

• Covers all three French public-service branches (state, local/territorial, hospital)
• Concours-based system judged on standardized written and oral exams
• Central portal to search vacancies across every branch

Requirements & Eligibility

• French or EU/EEA nationality (French nationality required for some sovereign roles)
• Passing the relevant concours (competitive examination) for the target grade

Required Documents

How to Apply

1. 1Identify which branch of the French civil service (state, territorial or hospital) and specific concours matches your target role.
2. 2Register for and sit the relevant concours, which combines written and oral examination stages depending on the post's category.
3. 3Passing the concours places you on an admissions list that hiring administrations then recruit from directly.