A Government Career Fair under the title ReGeneration will be held once again on Saturday, 27 October, in Budapest. The event, which is now a tradition, was initiated by Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics two years ago, and is organised by the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice for the third time this year.

The purpose of the fair is to introduce jobs and career opportunities in public service, government and public administration to young people. This year, too, the ministries and their support institutions will present themselves at the event, and there will also be stage discussions. The fair is a good opportunity for school-leavers and young people about to embark on a career to pose the questions they are interested in to public administration workers or even the attending state leaders in person.

The representatives of ministries, the offices of state secretaries and the institutions supporting the Government’s work will await young people at sixty-two exhibition stands at this year’s event. Visitors to the event may gain an insight into the day-to-day work of the well-known and less well-known government agencies and offices. True to traditions, the fair will, on this occasion, be a generation-specific conference; there will be stage discussions covering a wide range of issues, including some inside information from behind the scenes of public administration, the National Public Service University, family policy and the opportunities of talented young people.

The ReGeneration programme has played a key role in achieving that an increasingly large number of young people now consider public administration as a possible career choice. The initiator of the programme, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics stressed at the time when the programme was first launched that the renewal and rejuvenation of public administration requires highly-qualified, dynamic young people who are dedicated to their country. The Government has therefore made a conscious effort to open up new career options for young people as part of its human resources policy in public administration. The Ministry of Public Administration and Justice held a Government Career Fair in the autumn of 2010 for the first time since the change of regime; the event was attended by some 8,000 young people already in its first year and was a great success in 2011 as well. As a result, the initiative, which was initially seen as a unique event, has a good chance of turning into a tradition. The Hungarian Public Administration Scholarship Programme, which also serves to involve young people in larger numbers, was launched two years ago. Thanks to this, some five hundred young people have to date been given the opportunity to serves as interns in public administration in Hungary and abroad. The Ministry also organises a Public Administration Open Day and ReGeneration camp every year which are highly popular and attendance requests regularly outnumber the available spaces several times over. The National Public Service University commenced its first academic year in September. This institution will serve as the primary base for public service worker succession and professional on-the-job training.

(Prime Minister’s Office)