Job seekers apply for assistance in finding employment at the employment center at their place of residence, public service center, or through the e-government web portal. The Center for Employment of the Population registers a person seeking a job as unemployed on the basis of an identity document, and when applying through the web portal of "electronic government" - on the basis of an application in the form of an electronic document. The Center for Employment of the Population, no later than five working days from the date of application, registers the applicants as unemployed after checking the information about the applicant through the information systems of state bodies and (or) organizations by entering information into a personal account card, the form of which is approved by the central executive body.

The unemployed registered at the employment center must be registered at the employment center at least once within ten calendar days, and the unemployed living in rural areas - at least once a month at the akim of the village, village, rural district.