More demand for unskilled workers - There are 953 vacancies for the first half of August
In the first two weeks of August, a total of 953 job vacancies were registered with the National Employment and Skills Agency. According to the category data, the majority of the job vacancies have full-time employment as the main criterion, while 917 full-time jobs are listed.
In Albania, a part-time job is still not offered by most employers or companies, while only 17 jobs are listed that offer a part-time employment contract.
But how are jobs categorized based on education?
From the list of jobs offered, most companies are looking for unqualified employees, with an estimated 395 jobs requiring only upper secondary education, i.e. only high school. While 341 jobs are offered for that category of employees who have 9 years of education.
The qualified, or that category of employees considered "brains", have a lower number of requests, from which in the first 2 weeks of August the requests are calculated at 121 for all those employees who have a Bachelor's or Master's degree. In the National Employment and Skills Agency, in the category of employees who have vocational education, only 90 are calculated in total.
To focus on the types of professions, the demand for waiters is at the top, with 70 jobs, while the demand for engineers is estimated at 23, 21 for cooks and merchandisers, 10 for economists, etc.

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