Over 80 thousand unemployed citizens in Kosovo registered at Employment Agency

The employment department's director at the Employment Agency in Kosovo, Rescue Kaluldra, in a response to Radio Kosovo said a large number of registered unemployed are with high school preparations.

Kalludra said it is not the business claim that there is a shortage of labour, but, according to him, the problem is the lack of conditions for work and low wages in the private sector.

Taking into account that most working business criteria have only high school, we can say that professional qualifications are not the problem. But what's the problem in this matter and according to our analysis, are working conditions and low wages. ”

Kalldra also disclosed that from over 10,000 jobs last year, this agency has brokered around 58 per cent of them.

And as a problem for the job market as a result of inadequate professional non-preparation for specific professions during schooling, you see the expert on education issues, Youth Qehaja.

He told Kosovo Radio that there is a conflict of market requirements with studies profiles since professional high schools and universities.

“There is a difference in market requirements with research profiles, whether in professional high school or university, this gap is attested to by any student who enters the labour market, and is testified to by any employer how many graduates lack skills and skills for real labour market needs. “

That the unemployment rate is too high and there is a lack of working conditions in Kosovo, and the fact that only in January of this year for 450 working visas at the German Embassy in Pristina have applied 48 thousand and 962 Kosovo citizens.