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In Spain, public employment has become a increasingly valued option For millions of people. Precariousness and job instabilitytogether with the problems to which Young people face and greater than 55 To find a job in the private sector, they are causing many people in precarious or unemployment situation to choose to prepare oppositions as a professional alternative.
In A stage With 2,789,200 of people in unemployment, it is not surprising that more than half of the active population (about 12 million people) has thought of opposing seeking the security of a employment and stable salary in the public sector.
The Public Employment Offer for 2025. The Government has already published the Public Employment Offer (OEP) by 2025, which includes a total of 36,588 places available. These vacancies include positions for state security forces and forces, as well as for the armed forces.
Of the total, 27,697 places are new and 8,891 internal promotion. The vast majority of places, 70% (26,889 places), are intended for the General State Administration. In addition, 10% of vacancies (2,610 places) are reserved for people with disabilities, thus expanding opportunities within the public sector.
Unemployment as an engine to oppose. Currently, more than 2.7 million people are unemployed in Spain, many of whom face serious difficulties in returning to the labor market in the private sector, either because they are too young and not meet the experience requirements, or for being over 55 years old.
According to Report data ‘The weight of the opponent in Spain in 2025’ that the opposition formation portal elaborates every year, 48% of the unemployed between 18 and 55 years are preparing an opposition or intends to do so soon. If those who have already opposed in the past are included in the strip, the percentage amounts to 68%.
The quarry of officials. The study reveals that the unemployment figures of the different autonomous communities are inversely proportional to the percentage of the active population that arises or is already preparing an opposition to one of the public employment squares.
Thus, Extremadura, with a 16.60% strike According to EPA data Of the first quarter of 2025, it is the one that has prepared the highest percentage of the active population or is preparing an opposition with 48% of its population in order to work. Murcia follows, with a 12.83% unemployment rate, which records 43% of its labor mass with the intention of opposing, drawing in that figure with Castilla y León.
At the opposite end, communities with less interest in opposing in relation to the total of its active population is Catalonia (19%), followed by Madrid (21%) that tied with Valencia and the Balearic Islands.
How many people are? These percentages, taken to absolute numbers, assumes that 6,779,344 people are preparing to oppose At the moment or have recently opposed presenting themselves to the Latest calls. The data reveal that 9% of the people who are currently opposing a year ago. Of these, 67% had never opposed before. Which implies that the public sector is attracting a greater number of employees who would not have considered developing their career as a public official.
5,386,328 people plan to oppose in the near future, so they could participate in the call for oppositions that have just made public, or will do so for the call of 2026. In total, 52% of the active population, about 12,165,672 people are preparing, they are preparing or intention to prepare an opposition shortly, against 48% that they do not intend to do so.
Official, but where? The results of the study slide that people who are opposing today do so To cover a place for the administrative or auxiliary body and for positions in health or education.
The results are similar among those who have expressed their intention to oppose in the near future, the most quoted administrative places being. The main difference between those who plan to oppose and who is already doing it, we find in the aspiration of the new opponents for presenting themselves to a postal square, which almost quadruples.
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