Professional Selection (M/F)

Open opportunities and candidate area How to apply Calendars and juries Results

Open opportunities and candidate area

Visit grade promotion opportunities and access candidate area from May 27, 2025 at 10am to June 26, 2025 at 1pm.

To find out more about the IEHC 2024-2025 campaign click here.

Decision to open the IEHC 2026 campaign

Application procedure

The professional selection exam is open only to CNRS employees. Conditions are assessed on December 31 of the current year.

Candidate guides are available below.

Statutory conditions for promotion by professional selection Consult the IRHC candidate guide Consult the IEHC candidate guide View the TCS - TCE candidate guide

Timetable and juries

Registration opens on May 27, 2025 at 10am and closes on June 26 at 1pm (Paris time).

The professional selection exams for access to the IRHC and IEHC grades now include a dossier-based eligibility phase.

The jury will examine the applications:

IRHC: September 18 to October 7, 2025
IEHC: September 22 to October 15, 2025

Composition des jurys: courant octobre 2025

Auditions for eligible candidates :

IRHC: November 3 to 7, 2025
IEHC: November 18 to 26, 2025
TCS/TCE: November 12-14, 2025

Table of promotions: publication mid-December 2025

Appointment: January^1, 2026

You will find below the lists of jury members as soon as they are constituted. A single jury is set up for each of the four exams (IRHC, IEHC, TCE and TCS).

Composition des jurys :

For auditions, each of these juries is organized into sub-juries. The final decision is taken by a full jury.

Results

Lists of candidates admitted to the competition:

List of candidates for the post of senior research engineer (IRHC)
- Publication of the list of candidates
List of candidates for the post of senior design engineer (IEHC)
- Publication of the list of candidates
List of candidates for the Technicien de classe exceptionnelle (TCE) competition
- Publication of the list of candidates
List of candidates admitted to the Technicien de classe supérieure (TCS) competitive examination
- Publication of the list of candidates