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Published on April 25, 2008
WORKING TO FIND WORK: NEW TREND OF JOB FAIRS TRIES TO CONNECT PROFESSIONS AND PROFESSIONALS
- A recent Yerevan job fair drew more than 1,000 young professionals, eager to turn their education into livelihood. Organized by the Center of Alumni and Career of the Yerevan State University (YSU) and the Union of Alumni of YSU, the primary goal of the first financial and banking job fair was to give young people with economic education the opportunity to learn about vacancies in financial structures and banks as well as to provide a direct contact between employers and potential employees in the field. Job vacancies were opened by the Stock Exchange of Armenia, nine banks, two universal lending organizations, and two audit and consulting companies. Economists, financiers and accountants – all looking for work – were among the attendees. The director of the Center of Alumni and Career of YSU Kristine Vardanyan said that the outcomes of the fair would be reviewed in a month. Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, who was present at the fair, pointed out the importance of such events. “I want us through this fair to send proper messages to the public that we will appreciate professionalism.” The Prime Minister urged young people to prize knowledge as the most important value. “In this case you will have prospects and will ensure the prosperity for yourselves and your families.” During the last six months three job fairs took place with more than 100 employers and 5,000 unemployed taking part. More than 100 employers and 5,000 unemployed took part in the largest one organized by the State Employment Service of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in October 2007. Out of 5,000, though, only 78 found jobs, among which 48 were for labor. According to the data of the State Employment Service Agency (SPSA), the beginning of this year unemployment in Armenia was 6.7 percent. The director of the agency Sona Harutyunyan says that “this 6.7 percent is the real number of people who applied to an employment service and received the status.” The actual number of unemployed, however, is several times higher. Harutyunyan explains that, too, there are many people who are not considered unemployed, because they have land that they tend, even though they do not hold jobs in their trained profession. According to the “RA Labor Market and Youth Problems” research of the SPSA, the unemployment rate is 19.3 percent for ages 16-30 and 43.2 percent for ages 31-45. WHAT ABOUT FOR THOSE OLDER THAN 45? As this research had focus on youth problems, Sona Harutyunyan during presentation did not mention any number for people older 45. The goal of the Youth Career Leaning Center (a state, non-commercial organization) is to help orientate young people to get the education corresponding to the market’s requirements. “We start from school, organizing courses for senior pupils to introduce them to the market’s requirements. There is a serious problem in Armenia now, as the job is brought to conformity with the education and not the education to the job,” center director Haykuhi Gevorgyan says. According to her observations, young people only begin to get used to job fairs, meanwhile job fairs are a popular way to find employment throughout the world. The “Center of Independent Analyses, Productivity and Competitiveness” Fund also actively participates in organizing job fairs. According to the fund’s director Gagik Makaryan, their effectiveness is low, as neither employers nor people searching for jobs can correctly present themselves there. “People who apply there cannot present themselves, cannot write a resume, often do not emphasize their major abilities and apply for all vacancies,” says Makaryan. “The big job fair organized in October 2007 was very important in this respect, as they filled in resumes on the spot, in a specially developed way and keeping these resumes they can use them in the future.” Another problem, according to the fund’s director, is employers’ failure to present their vacancies in a proper way. Makaryan says that to achieve success, it is better to organize job fairs according to fields of activities, as was the latest fair in early April. The fund and the SPSA are to organize the next job fair within the framework of the “Management of Social Security Field” program of the World Bank in May-June of this year, in Yerevan, Abovyan and Goris.
- Sara Khojoyan
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