Over 62,000 people employed in Azerbaijan this year 

State Employment Service under the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population provided jobs for 62,672 unemployed and job-seekers in the nine months of 2021.

Report informs that 23,289 of them were involved in paid public jobs.

The Service also continued to implement the self-employment program, which is one of the important areas. Some 11,950 people have already registered for the program. Of them, 6,883 set up small farms, being provided with assets on the areas of business they chose.

During this period, the Service involved 262 unemployed people in vocational training courses in various areas and 147 people in the vocational counseling service.