Taking skills into consideration in recruitment and career development in the public sector - a European comparison

The public administration is increasingly becoming the largest employer in Europe, making modern recruitment and development policies of paramount importance. Human resource management also requires a medium-term perspective to enable the necessary planning of staffing needs. There is a growing need for recruitment and development tools that take into account informal skills, especially those of managers. Matching job supply and demand requires a strategy that enables the right selection of people with the right professional and technical skills, as well as the right soft skills, such as social skills, teamwork and resilience. Traditionally, public sector issues are mainly discussed at national level, although European standards sometimes overshadow national path dependencies. The project therefore aims to fill a research gap by involving experts from theory and practice from selected European countries in addressing individual research topics, in order to obtain recommendations for action for the German public administration from this 'internal perspective'.