UPDATE: The notice for the AD5 competition was published today—Deadline is 10 March 2026. You should fill in the initial application thoroughly, with correct dates for all work experiences and diplomas (studies, languages, etc.). You will need to submit those should you be successful.
1490 people will make it to the reserve list (from which you can be directly recruited as a lifetime civil servant), as opposed to 147 in the last such competition in 2019. Assuming a similar number of applicants as in 2019 (~25k) the probability of making it onto the reserve list would be a lot higher for this competition, around 5%. There will however likely be substantially more candidates given the exam has not taken place in a while—and it will be considerably harder to be recruited off the reserve list (around 1⁄3 chance, whereas in the previous system most people on the list seemed to be hired).
UPDATE: The notice for the AD5 competition was published today—Deadline is 10 March 2026. You should fill in the initial application thoroughly, with correct dates for all work experiences and diplomas (studies, languages, etc.). You will need to submit those should you be successful.
1490 people will make it to the reserve list (from which you can be directly recruited as a lifetime civil servant), as opposed to 147 in the last such competition in 2019. Assuming a similar number of applicants as in 2019 (~25k) the probability of making it onto the reserve list would be a lot higher for this competition, around 5%. There will however likely be substantially more candidates given the exam has not taken place in a while—and it will be considerably harder to be recruited off the reserve list (around 1⁄3 chance, whereas in the previous system most people on the list seemed to be hired).