The total number of unemployed people registered with the Employment Agency at the end of March was 29.970 people, which is 6,7 thousand less than in the same period last year, and three thousand less than at the end of last year.
The bureau has four thousand people with university degrees waiting for work, including 15 with doctorates. There are 11,7 thousand unskilled or semi-skilled workers on the register, and 15,2 thousand unemployed people with high school diplomas.
There are 18,6 thousand unemployed people waiting for a job for more than three years, 4,6 thousand have been registered with the Employment Service for between one and three years, and 6,7 thousand have been registered with the Bureau for less than a year.
The largest group of unemployed people is made up of people aged between 51 and 60, of whom there are 7,2 thousand, while those over 60 years of age are registered as unemployed. There are seven thousand unemployed people aged between 41 and 50, and up to 6,6 thousand unemployed people aged between 31 and 40. There are 25 thousand unemployed people aged between 30 and 2,7, while there are two and a half thousand unemployed people under 25.
The unemployment rate is 10,59 percent, while in the same period last year it was 13,27 percent.
From the beginning of the year to the end of March, employers advertised 6.742 job vacancies through the Employment Service, of which 5.994 were for temporary employment, and 748 were for permanent employment. In the same period last year, employers advertised 7.195 thousand job vacancies, or 453 more jobs.
Since the beginning of the year, employers have sought 2.348 workers with college degrees, 977 unskilled and semi-skilled workers, as well as 4.394 workers with high school diplomas.
Through the Employment Service, employers hired 2.576 workers in the first three months of this year, of which 1.522 were women.
Of the total number of employees, 333 were unqualified or semi-qualified, 1.302 were employed with a high school diploma, and 941 with a university degree, of which three were PhDs.
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