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Director of Export Control System Permits
Secretaría de Economía · Ciudad de México · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Anyone from the general public who meets the education and experience requirements for the job can apply, as well as public servants who are interested. Mexicans and foreigners whose immigration status allows them to do the job can apply.
Education: Bachelor's degree · Titled
Accepted degrees:
- Administración
- Ciencias Políticas y Administración Pública
- Ciencias Sociales
- Derecho
- Economía
- Mercadotecnia y Comercio
- Relaciones Internacionales
- Computación e informática
- Ingeniería
Experience: 5 years of experience
In these areas:
- Computer technology and/or telecommunications technology
- Business organization and management, sector economics, general economics and/or economics of technological change
- National law and legislation and/or international law
- Public administration
Legal requirements:
- Be a Mexican citizen with full rights, or a foreigner whose immigration status allows the job
- Not have been sentenced to prison for an intentional crime
- Be able to perform the duties of public service
- Not belong to the clergy or be a minister of any religion
- Not be barred from public service or have any other legal impediment
2 Register on TrabajaEn
Registration: October 21 to November 4.
Register at www.trabajaen.gob.mx between October 21 and November 4, 2026. When you accept the contest conditions, the system will give you a participation folio.
To register you need your CURP and RFC, a TrabajaEn account and an up-to-date TrabajaEn CV. When you register for this job you get a folio number: keep it, you need it at every stage.
3 Exams and documents
The stages of the contest:
- Resume review (registration of your resume in TrabajaEn)
- General federal knowledge exam and technical knowledge exam, starting November 9, 2026
- Skills assessment, starting November 12, 2026
- Document review, experience assessment and merit assessment, starting November 17, 2026
- Interview with the Selection Technical Committee, starting November 17, 2026
- Final decision by the Committee
Minimum score: 70 puntos en una escala de 0 a 100 (puntaje mínimo de aptitud). La calificación mínima del examen técnico se indica en el perfil de cada puesto.
Look on TrabajaEn for the topics of the knowledge exam of your job, and check your messages often: that is where your exam and document-check appointments arrive.
Keep in mind:
- If you are missing any document in the document review, you are removed from the contest even if you passed the exams.
- The tolerance is 15 minutes. If you arrive late to a stage, you cannot enter and you are removed.
- Candidates who reach 70 points but do not win go into the job's reserve list for one year.
- TrabajaEn is the only official way of communication. Dates may change.
Documents for the document check (tick them when you have them):
4 Interview and result
The interview is with the Selection Technical Committee: prepare examples of your experience in the duties of the job. Then the committee chooses the winner. If you are a finalist and do not win, you join the candidate reserve for the job for one year.
The duties of the job:
- Write the rules for the Export Control System that include WASSENAAR lists.
- Set up inter-agency working groups to define goods that may be controlled.
- Hold inter-agency meetings to approve activities on controlled goods and merchandise.
- Create tools to evaluate how the Export Control System works.
- Schedule inspection visits to check that permits are used correctly.
- Define penalties when the Export Control System rules are broken.
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