Employment
Researchers who are permanent employees of the CNRS are classified in two categories, in order of seniority:
- Research scientists (chargés de recherche): 2nd class (CR2), 1st class (CR1).
- Research directors (directeurs de recherche): 2nd class (DR2), 1st class (DR1), exceptional class (DRCE).
In principle, research directors tend to head research groups, but this is not a general rule (a research scientist can head a group or even a laboratory and some research directors don't head a group).
Employees for support activities include research engineers, studies engineers, assistant engineers and technicians. Contrary to what the name would seem to imply, these can have administrative duties (e.g. a secretary can be "technician", an administrative manager of a laboratory an "assistant engineer").
All permanent support employees are recruited through annual nationwide competitive campaigns. Following a 1983 reform, the candidates selected have the status of civil servants and are part of the fonction publique.
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