Report on Work Carried Out in the Field of Employment for 2025

Unemployment Rate. According to the data of the Statistics Department of the Kyzylorda Region, the economically active population in 2024 amounted to 151,301 people; the overall unemployment rate in the city was 4.5%.

Creation of New Jobs. One of the conditions ensuring an increase in the level of employment is the creation of new jobs. As of 01.01.2026, 12,046 new jobs were created, including 6,906 permanent jobs.

Employment. As of 01.01.2026, 26,991 people applied to the Career Center on employment issues, 4,087 people were employed. The total number of unemployed persons at the end of the reporting period amounted to 6,603 people. The level of registered unemployment in the city amounted to 4.4% of the economically active population.

The City Department of Employment and Social Programs conducts monthly “Job Fairs”, which are an effective form of prompt employment of the unemployed. As of 01.01.2026, 17 job fairs were held, with the participation of 315 employers and HR specialists of the city, providing 2,850 applications for vacant jobs. As a result of the job fairs, 241 unemployed persons were employed in permanent jobs, and 2,098 people received consultations in the field of employment.

For 2025, it was planned to train 60 people in short-term vocational training; 68 people were referred.

In 2025, 564 people received state grants for the implementation of new business ideas.

Public Works. It was planned to assign 2,215 people to public works; 2,923 people were involved.

Social Jobs. It was planned to assign 100 people to social jobs; 100 people were involved.

For youth practice, it was planned to assign 1,225 young specialists; 1,224 young participants were assigned.

For the Silver Age project, it was planned to assign 500 people; 501 people were assigned.

For the First Job project, it was planned to assign 2 young specialists; 2 people were assigned.

Registration of the Unemployed

A job seeker is registered as unemployed after verification of their data through the information systems of state bodies and/or organizations in accordance with the procedure determined by the authorized state body.

2. A registered unemployed person who has received a job offer from the Career Center, including through the Electronic Labor Exchange, must notify the Career Center of their consent or refusal of the proposed job in accordance with the procedure determined by the authorized state body.

The following persons are not registered as unemployed:

1) persons under the age of sixteen;

2) employed persons;

3) persons who have reached the retirement age established by paragraphs 1–3 of Article 207 of this Code;

4) persons who submitted documents containing knowingly false information about the absence of work and earnings (income), as well as other inaccurate information;

5) students and senior school pupils of general education schools applying for participation in active employment promotion measures in accordance with this Code;

6) persons sentenced by a court to corrective labor or public works, as well as to imprisonment, if such punishment is not suspended.

4. Unemployed persons are obliged to:

1) take up employment at the workplace declared by the employer after completion of vocational training based on the employer’s application;

2) comply with the procedure, conditions, and deadlines for visiting or notifying the Career Center in accordance with this Code and the rules for registration of job seekers, unemployed persons, and labor mediation provided by Career Centers;

3) contact the employer regarding employment within three working days from the date of notification by the Career Center;

4) timely, within five working days, provide the Career Center with information on changes affecting further interaction with the unemployed person, including:

change of place of residence;

employment in permanent or temporary work, work under civil law contracts;

engagement in entrepreneurial activity;

establishment (co-establishment) of an organization regardless of its organizational and legal form and form of ownership;

establishment or change of disability group;

assignment of pension benefits.

Deregistration of the Unemployed

1. The Career Center deregisters an unemployed person (except for family members of military personnel, employees of special state and law enforcement bodies, as well as persons dependent on them who are not engaged in labor activity, registered and deregistered in accordance with the procedure determined by the authorized state body) in the following cases:

1) refusal of three suitable job options offered by the Career Center or untimely notification of the Career Center, and for residents of rural settlements – the akim of the settlement, village, or rural district, of consent or refusal of the offered suitable job options after registration as unemployed;

2) failure to appear without valid reasons:

within five working days from the date of notification by the Career Center at the place of proposed employment or training;

within three working days upon summons to the Career Center to participate in active employment promotion measures;

3) unauthorized termination of participation in active employment promotion measures;

4) violation by the unemployed person, without valid reasons, of the deadlines for visiting or notifying the Career Center provided for by this Code and the rules for registration of job seekers, unemployed persons, and labor mediation services provided by Career Centers;

5) sentencing of the unemployed person to imprisonment, if such punishment is not suspended, or referral for compulsory treatment by a court decision that has entered into legal force;

6) cases provided for in subparagraph 4) of paragraph 4 of Article 99 of this Code;

7) submission of knowingly false or forged documents.

2. Unemployed persons deregistered in accordance with subparagraphs 1)–4) of paragraph 1 of this article may re-register with the Career Center as unemployed only after thirty calendar days from the date of deregistration.