Digitization of recruitment at French economic and financial ministries: success of the ARC project with Neocase

• automation and dematerialization of recruitment and renewal procedures for contract staff in the MEF central administration.
• reduction of recruitment times and simplification of the administrative procedure that occurs between the pre-selection of a contract candidate by the recruiting department and the end of the new agent’s trial period.

• centralized monitoring of ongoing recruitments and renewals for everyone within a single application.

ARC also addresses a reporting challenge through the development of statistics on the recruitment of contract staff (gender distribution, recruitment times).

Deployment and training

• Deployment in successive waves: progressive rollout of ARC, allowing close support for users in each wave.
• Systematic training before authorization: all users were trained by the project owner and familiarized themselves with the application before being authorized.
• Structured feedback loops: after each wave, exchange sessions were held to answer questions and collect suggestions for improvements.
• Continuous improvement: suggestions were assessed for feasibility and then implemented in an optimized version deployed for the next wave.

• Compliance with regulatory frameworks: ARC is part of the “Tell us once” initiative and complies with RGS (General Security Framework) and GDPR standards.
• Data protection: centralized and shared application, with very strict visibility criteria for structured data and documents uploaded by candidates.
• Security approvals: ARC was granted a security approval on May 30, 2024, renewed on July 2, 2025.