To transform the Catalan School of Public Administration into a forum for analysis and foresight that certifies new staff promotion and selection systems

An entity must be set up to certify best practices for selection and promotion of staff within the Catalan public administrations as a whole. At present, the Catalan School of Public Administration has a rather broad mission that encompasses general training, support for selection processes, and research and dissemination activities. In this context, it could organise its functions into two dimensions: becoming a think tank that generates and disseminates thought and frameworks of action on human resources in the public sector, and having the capacity to accredit staff selection and promotion processes and systems in the public sphere in Catalonia. The shortcomings in the current organisational model reveal the need for access to job vacancies to operate through a system which, while assuring legally stipulated principles, removes the memory-based entrance exam, ensures the attraction of talent that ties in with the actual needs that must be met and introduces a real-time staff performance assessment system, shifting from an ex ante model to an ex post model. In order to consolidate this role, the School of Public Administration will need to become a consortium-based entity which can act as an umbrella organisation for all Catalan public administrations.