LABOR CLUBS TO BE OPENED IN A NUMBER OF TOWNS OF THE REPUBLIC

ARMENPRESS
May 20, 2009

YEREVAN, MAY 20, ARMENPRESS: With the support of "State Employment
Service" agency of Armenian Labor and Social Affairs Ministry labor
clubs will be opened in a number of towns of the republic.

Head of the Labor consultation and information department of the Agency
Tsoghik Bezhanian told Armenpress that in the nearest future clubs
will be opened in Gavar, Vanadzor, Alaverdi, Ijevan, Berd, Hrazdan
and Dilijan towns. Such clubs already function in Charentsavan,
Goris and Abovian.

The club will implement special projects of works with population
by the local self-governmental and regional and province centers of
employment. They will be available for the unemployed people; they
will get consultation as well as support in finding a job irrespective
how long they have been unemployed.

The labor clubs will assist the unemployed people to acquire skills
of seeking for a job, provide information on the social guarantees,
choice of profession and education, vacancies as well as annual state
employment projects.

In the labor clubs the unemployed people will be given opportunities
to get acquainted with the procedure of applying to an employer
(collection of necessary documents, their filling in, to convey the
documents to the employer through the internet and order of taking
part in the interviews).

In the clubs regularly meetings of job seekers with the employers,
representatives of NGOs and other beneficiaries will be organized.