T. Duissenova has discussed with the world Bank, the reform of employment centers

Today the Minister of labor and social protection of population of Kazakhstan Tamara Duissenova met with the consultant of the world Bank Jacqueline Mazza, with whom he discussed issues of reform and development of employment centers within the framework of the joint project "Development of labor skills and promote jobs."

At the beginning of the meeting with the expert of the world Bank Jacqueline Mazza Tamara Duissenova informed about it by the Ministry of labor and social protection of population of Kazakhstan modernization of the employment centres (hereinafter - CEP).

"Career centers will be implemented new standards for the provision of services transformation of employment centers of the state institutions in the public utility company on right of economic management. This should allow, as in the private sector, to pay work of workers centers on the end result. It is also planned to equip the employment centers with new computers, install software, provide access to all information systems of the Ministry and of the reference databases. To improve the service provided services in the employment centers of Almaty, Astana and Shymkent introduced electronic queue. Before the end of this year, the e-queue will be introduced in the employment center in all regional centers of the Republic.

To expand citizens access to services of employment centers in 237 the public service centers organized 272 workstations for specialists of the employment center", - said Tamara Duissenova.

She also stressed that Kazakhstan is working on creation of an electronic labor exchange.

"In order to facilitate the job search process for citizens and skilled employees for employers we have launched an electronic labor exchange. This is a free single data base with information from all stakeholders in the labor market: employment centers, job seekers, enterprises, organizations of all forms of ownership and recruitment companies involved in recruiting staff. Thus, the creation of this online platform involves the transition from traditional employment to independent mediation recruitment jobs and personnel," - said Tamara Duissenova.

In turn, Jacqueline Mazza introduced the international experience in the development of employment services. She emphasized that the main trends in reforming employment services provide for the transition of public employment services from the model of social services for the effective business models.

After the meeting, Tamara Duissenova thanked the expert for their work and expressed willingness to use international best practices in the modernization of the employment centers.

We will remind, the project "Development of skills and the stimulation of jobs" implemented in the framework of the loan Agreement between the world Bank and the Government of Kazakhstan. In the framework of the project it is planned to conduct training in accordance with the needs of the labor market of 20 thousand unemployed and unproductively self-employed people of Kazakhstan. An additional 12.7 thousand employees will be trained to improve professional skills and increase the performance of the work.

The project will be implemented until 2020. The project executor is the Ministry of labor and social protection of population of RK.