Professional Assessment in the State Public Service (EPF)

Professional interview is a moment of exchange between you and your direct supervisor on the review of the past year and the targets for the following year.

The interview focuses on the following points:

• The professional results you have obtained in relation to the objectives set for you and the conditions of organization and operation of your service
• The objectives for the coming year and the prospects for improving your professional results, possibly taking into account the prospects for changing the organizational and operational conditions of your service
• Your way of serving
• The achievements of your professional experience
• Your training needs, taking into account, in particular, your missions, the skills you need to acquire and your professional project
• If applicable, the manner in which you perform the managerial functions entrusted to you
• Your prospects for professional development.

Ministerial decrees may set out other topics for the professional interview depending on the nature of the tasks entrusted and the level of your responsibilities.

During the interview, your line manager checks that you know the rules for using the Personal Training Account (PTA) and the conditions under which you can consult your rights. If this is not the case, it informs you.

Your prospects for advancement to higher grade may also be the subject of a further special assessment. This is the case if you have reached the last step of your grade for at least 3 years on 31 December of the year for which you are assessed and if you have not reached that grade by grade advancement, contest or internal promotion.

The professional interview is conducted by your direct supervisor.

You are informed of the date of the interview at least 8 days in advance.

Ministerial decrees specify the conditions for organizing the professional interview.

You have to prove a sufficient effective presence time during the year to allow your supervisor to appreciate your professional value. This period is assessed on a case-by-case basis. It may vary depending on the nature of the functions you perform.

When you change positions during the year, the assessment is based on the position you have held for the longest time.

Your supervisor establishes a debriefing professional maintenance.

This report contains a general assessment expressing your professional value.

The report will be sent to you first. You can add to that with your comments.

It is then signed by the hierarchical authority, which may make its own observations if it deems it useful.

Finally, it is you notified so that you can sign it to attest that you have knowledge of it.

The report shall be kept in your file.

You can request a review of the minutes from your professional interview to your hierarchical authority in the 15 clear days following its notification.

The reporting authority has 15 clear days to respond from the date of receipt of your request for review.

In the event of an unfavorable response, you can enter the CAP: titleContent within one month of notification of the reply.

After consulting the CAP, the hierarchical authority sends you the final report of the interview. The report shall be kept in your individual file.

The report of the interview may also be the subject of a contentious remedies before the administrative court.

The minutes of professional interviews are among the elements taken into account by the employer administration in preparing the tables of advancement of grade.