Unified National Public Competition Aims to Hold Single ENEM-Style Exam to Fill Over 8,000 Positions

New Unified Public Competition Must Be Held Already in 2024 With Thousands of Open Positions in Areas Such as Agriculture, Environment, Health, Technology, Among Others.

The Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI) presented last Friday (25) the proposal for the unification of exams for public competitions focused on filling positions in the federal government. The model for administering the exams in the Unified Public Competition was inspired by the National High School Exam (Enem).

Unified Competition Aims to Offer About 8 Thousand Vacancies

The participation of ministries in the unified competition is voluntary, and according to the Ministry of Management and Innovation, the announcement must be published by December of this year, with the exam scheduled for February 25, 2024.

The vacancies in the unified competition have been grouped into thematic blocks, check it out:

Intermediate Level (692 Vacancies)

• Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation (1,194 vacancies);
• Economic Sectors, Infrastructure, and Regulation (1,015 vacancies);
• Social Policies, Justice, and Health (1,470 vacancies);
• Agriculture, Environment, and Agrarian Development (1,040 vacancies);
• Labor and Social Security (940 vacancies);
• Data, Technology, and Public Information (895 vacancies);
• Administration and Public Finances (580 vacancies).

According to the Ministry of Management and Innovation, the exam for the unified public competition is scheduled for February 25, 2024, divided into two sessions on the same date, with the first session being multiple-choice tests, with a common matrix for all candidates, and the second session consisting of specific and essay tests by thematic blocks.

The overall results of the first phase of the unified competition are expected to be released by the end of April 2024, and the start of training courses is set for between June and July of next year. The goal is to conduct the exam in approximately 180 cities simultaneously across Brazil.

Ministers and Secretaries Comment on Unified Public Competition

According to Minister Esther Dweck, in an interview with columnist Mônica Bergamo from the newspaper Folha de São Paulo on Thursday (24), it is a process of democratization of access to become a public servant, also in the sense that there is a resumption of the hiring process for the sector, reinforcing the strengthening of the Brazilian State.

According to José Celso Cardoso Jr, Secretary of People Management at MGI, specialized studies indicate that this unified format of exams, as opposed to those that plan to assess knowledge, from the outset, very specialized, has been able to better select future public servants, bringing to the State’s framework individuals who are generally honest and committed to the public sphere and the achievements of the administration.

Structure of the Unified Public Competition

For Cardoso Jr, this project is innovative and bold. Thus, a criterion of fairness in access to public vacancies has been developed like never before in the history of the country.

The unified public competition will be organized through a General Coordination composed of the Ministry of Management and Innovation (MGI), the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP), the National School of Public Administration (ENAP), the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), and the Attorney General’s Office (AGU).

This arrangement also provides for the active participation of the sectoral committees from each of the involved agencies, whose representatives will form the Advisory or Deliberative Committee. By mid-September of this year, the Ministry of Management and Innovation is expected to publish the official act that will define the governance structure of the Unified Public Competition.

It is worth noting that the exams will be held simultaneously in 179 cities, covering all regions of Brazil, with the North region accounting for 39 cities, Northeast with 50, Southeast with 49, Midwest with 18, and South with 23.