The number of the unemployed has exceeded the number of vacancies

Here are about 40 thousand official unemployed in Belarus and there are only about 35 thousand vacancies offered by placement services. The deputy head of Minsk placement department Maryna Shahlovich has informed ERB about it. According to her, there are more than two vacancies per every unemployed person in Minsk.

Maryna Shahlovіch: “According to the currently available information, there are a bit more than 13 thousand vacancies in Minsk. There were 4600 jobless people on March 1, however, I think the number has increased a bit since then”.

The situation is different in the provinces. For example, there were 1.5 times more vacancies that the unemployed in Babruisk last year. Now there is only about a thousand vacancies per 2.5 thousand jobless people.

However, the main problem is the imbalance of the offer and demand, says the head of Babruisk placement department Natallya Kazakova:

“The thing is there is imbalance of the offer and demand in the republic. The situation in the labour market often does not match employers’ demands. There can be the same number of vacancies and jobless people, but the profession in demand may differ from the profession of the registered people”.
There are only about 500 vacancies per 645 unemployed in Mazyr. Builders are in demand all over the country. They also have the biggest wages – about a million rubles. Doctors, teachers, sales assistants and cooks have the lowest salaries. The income of such professions is often only a bit bigger that the living wage – 300-350 thousands.

Placement departments help the unemployed train for more popular professions to improve the situation. A group is created and people can get a vacancy after the course finishes.

Maryna Shahlovіch: “There are educational and retraining courses. There is also career-guidance so that we can engage people to train for professions required in the labour market and with the help of which they will have a better chance of getting a job. There are training courses in more than 40 professions”.
Meanwhile, the best students will get the best vacancies. There is a lot of competence when the difference between wages in similar vacancies is big.

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