By 2025, more than 2 million young people will enter the labor market in Kazakhstan
The Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan Madina Abylkasymova told about this during the International Conference “Investments in Youth”, held today in Astana.
In the framework of the forum, about 200 participants from 35 countries discuss issues in the field of youth policy and share best practices in the development of projects and programs focused on youth development.
The Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population Madina Abylkasymova, speaking at the conference, drew the attention of the participants that the Head of State in his Message to the People of Kazakhstan took the initiative to declare next year the Year of Youth, as well as create a broad platform of social lifts that will include a full range of support measures for all categories of youth.
According to the minister, for Kazakhstan, the main challenge in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the expected growth in the number of young people entering the labor market.
"According to our forecasts, by 2025 the number of able-bodied youth will increase by 446 thousand and will amount to 2.8 million people. We expect that by 2025 more than 2 million young people will enter the labor market in Kazakhstan. This is an average of 250 thousand people a year. In this regard, our main task is to give these guys the skills they need, prepare them for work, provide them with starting jobs or help start their own business, ”said the head of the department.
At the end of the second quarter of 2018, the total number of young people employed was 2.1 million. Of these, 1.5 million. Refers to the number of employees, 456 thousand - to the number of self-employed.
The level of education of young people is growing. 36% of young people have higher education, 39% - secondary special education, 25% - basic, general, primary education.
Minister Abylkasymova elaborated on the main areas of work with young people.
“At the initiative of the Head of State, last year the project“ Free Technical and Vocational Education ”was launched, thanks to which 21,000 educational grants are additionally allocated to an annual state order for VET,” M.Aylkasymova noted.
In addition, short-term vocational training courses for up to 1 year are organized for retraining and upgrading skills. Today, about 15 thousand young people undergo retraining in popular working professions.
To ensure the link between education and the labor market, work is underway to create a national qualifications system.
Conditions have been created for involving youth in mass entrepreneurship through entrepreneurship training and microcredit.
During 9 months of this year, 21,6 thousand people were covered by training, of which 12,3 thousand participants defended their business projects, 8,5 thousand people received microcredits. Of these, 5.6 thousand microloans for opening their own businesses were issued to young people.
As part of the Comprehensive Employment Promotion Plans, together with large enterprises in the country, there is an active promotion of youth employment. As of October 1, 2018, about 137 thousand young people were employed, of which more than 86 thousand people were employed for permanent jobs. 24.5 thousand young people got the opportunity to go through youth practice
In order to assist in the employment of young people, together with the Ministry of Social Development, work was carried out on the classification of young people according to educational level, social status, work experience, income level and place of residence (city/village).
7 categories of youth are defined, for each of which will be provided measures of state support depending on the need for education, employment, and social support.