There are five times more vacancies than officially jobless poeple in Minsk

The data bank of the state placement service had 50 thousand 770 vacancies available on January 1, 2008. It is 15.4% more than on January 1, 2007, informs the placement department of the head placement policy and population service of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.

At the moment the number of vacancies exceeds the number of officially registered jobless people by 15% (there were 44 thousand 78 jobless people in the country on January 1).

BelTA