DUSHANBE, October 3, Asia-Plus - This year’s seventh fair of job vacancies will be held in Dushanbe on October 6.  

Mahmadali Jabborov, the director of the Dushanbe Employment Center, said the fair is staged is by the Center in cooperation with Youth Committee under the Tajik Government.  

“Some 3,000 jobs will be offered in the fair and those wanting to change their professions will be sent for taking training courses,” Jabborov said, adding that representatives from Tojikvneshtrud (Tajik organization for external labor migration) will also attend the fair.  They will offer job-seekers seasonal work outside the country, according to him.

Jabborov said that Russia’s regions of Penza and Sverdlovsk are ready to accept workers, primarily drivers and builders, from Tajikistan.  “Employers from these regions are ready to pay them wages on average from US$500 to US$1,000,” the Dushanbe Employment Center head said.  

According to him, 118 organizations and enterprises participated in the previous six fairs and offered more than 4,000 vacancies.  As a result of those fairs, 587 people have been placed in jobs, 152 others have been sent to refresher courses and 342 people have been sent to public works.  All in all, more than 4,500 people have taken part in those fairs,“ Jabborov said, adding that since the beginning of the year, the center has placed 150 people in jobs outside the republic.