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Vilayat İsmayilov, Nahid Almasov, Sarraf Mirzayev:The Programme of Reduction and
Profilling of Long-Term Unemployment in Azerbaijan

According to the Action Plan, 10 modular training programs have been prepared and
updated to [https://azertag.az/xeber/modular_wired_programs_will_be_prepared_ for_
professional_ training-1416151].

Job seekers and unemployed citizens are involved in vocational training in the
following cases:
- if it is impossible to choose a suitable job for them due to the lack of an appropriate
profession or specialty;
- when he needs to change his profession (specialty), since there is no work that
corresponds to his professional habits;
- if you lose the ability to work in your previous profession.

For the purpose of vocational training, Vocational Training Centers (VTC) were
established under the Employment Service in Baku in 2007, in Goychay district in
2008, and in Nakhchivan in 2009. In 2016, the Baku Regional Vocational Training
Centre (RVTC) were training 1478 people in Goychay RVTC-507 people, and in
Nakhchivan RVTC-413. In general, in 2017, 3,561 people took a professional
training course in the RVTC of the country [www.ses.gov.az/].

Annual labor fairs are of great importance in the field of providing decent work for job
seekers and unemployed citizens (especially young people), held in the regions of the
country. The main purpose of the fair, the interaction of employers with the unemployed
and seeking work citizens, enable employers to quickly select qualified, talented human
resources, meet modern requirements. At the same time, providing unemployed and
job-seeking citizens with information about available vacant jobs and helping them to
secure decent work is also one of the main issues carried out in this area.

Large-scale organizational work carried out during the preparation for the fairs,
specially created relations of mutual cooperation with employers ensure the active
participation of employers, job seekers and unemployed citizens in this important
employment event. To this end, since 2007, Azerbaijan has been holding events
under the slogan "First step in a career” for the integration of graduates and students
of universities operating in the cities of Baku, Ganja and Mingachevir into jobs in
the labor market in their specialties. The purpose of these events is to inform
students about the demand in the labor market for the received specialties, to assist
businessmen (entrepreneurs) in the selection of future personnel, as well as to attract
graduates and students to vacant jobs in the specialty.

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