DUSHANBE, December 7, 2012, Asia-Plus — Over the first ten months of this year, more than 30,800 people have been placed in jobs in Tajikistan, which is 33.5 percent of the overall number of those who have applied to the employment service centers for jobs, according to the Agency for Social Security, Employment and Migration under the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
In all, more than 92,100 people have applied to the employment service centers for jobs over the same ten-month period. 55,500 of them have been registered as job-seekers and some 37,000 people have been registered as unemployed.
Besides, more than 2,300 people have been placed in jobs through employment quotas offered at job fairs. “The main reasons for such a small number of people placed in jobs at job fairs are lack of proper vocational skills and low wage rates offered by employers,” the source said.
Meanwhile, more than 6,200 people have received unemployment benefits for a total amount of more than 1.4 million somoni over the report period.
As of November 1, 2012, 76,800 were registered with the employment service centers as job-seekers; 55,000 of them have the status of unemployed.
Over the same ten-month period, nearly 12,000 people have been sent to take vocational training courses and more than 4,400 have been sent to the paid public works.
According to the Agency for Social Security, Employment and Migration, some 120,000 new jobs have been created in the country in January-October this year.
