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A new employment strategy is being created in Ukraine
The process of creating a new employment strategy is taking place in Ukraine.
According to the Ministry of Economy, its main goal is to give the chance to work to citizens who are struggling to find employment, particularly veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, older adults, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and Ukrainians living abroad. Around 4.65 million IDPs are registered in Ukraine currently, and nearly two million of them are of working age. Moreover, over 6.9 million citizens live abroad. As the Ministry of Economy says, the aim of this new strategy is making inclusion essential for sustainable economic growth, not optional.
They are proposing various solutions: enhancing career counseling, adopting internship programs, promoting professional retraining, implementing retraining initiatives for veterans, and endorsing integration programs, among others. As a result, as the State Employment Service has reported, there was an increase in job vacancies that offer housing benefits in response to the personnel shortage in Ukraine.
The Unified Vacancy Portal currently shows over 230,000 job postings available daily, including more than 2,000 job openings with housing provision listed since the start of the year. The increase compared to the same period last year attains 30%. Employees found 3,500 vacancies including those offering housing benefits over the past year, especially in Kyiv and the surrounding areas.
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Read moreProcessing industry offers a quarter of jobs on Ukrainian labor market
The study of the labor market for 2024-2025 by the State Employment Service (SES) reports 116,000 job offers on the Ukrainian labor market with 22% of them in processing industry enterprises.
Other sectors offering a significant share of vacancies are healthcare (13.6%), transport and warehouse management (9.4%), water supply and sewage (7.6%), electricity, gas and steam supply (6.3%) and education (slightly more than 5%).
Opposingly, the share of open vacancies in the service sectors, hotel and restaurant business, real estate and IT is less than 1%.
Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions form the greatest demand for workers (13.0% and 11.5%).
Notably, enterprises in the water supply, public administration and healthcare sectors offered the largest share of open vacancies at the time of the survey (over 40%). In contrast, enterprises in the information, real estate, trade, and hotel and restaurant sectors offered the smallest share of open vacancies.
Mykolaiv (34.2%), Rivne (34.1%) and Volyn (34.1%) regions have the largest shares of enterprises with open vacancies.
Simultaneously, Kyiv (10.4%), Zaporizhia (16.9%), Vinnytsia (18.9%) and Odesa (19.9%) regions have the smallest shares of enterprises with open vacancies. This fact is due to a traditionally high concentration of qualified personnel in the capital, which reduces the need for open vacancies. Particularly, remote work at many enterprises has reduced the need for active recruitment. As researchers say, vacancies were rapidly filled because of high competition in the labor market.
As for problems creating the lack of the workforce, it is possible to cite the emigration of the working-age population and the lack of significant investments in development.
Despite the opportunities of the trade and transport sectors to fill vacancies more quickly, economic activity is gradually declining in Vinnytsia and Odessa regions.
From the point of the employment structure, the age group of 25-60 years had the main share of employees in 2024 (80.5%). Only 6.4% of workers were youth under 25 years old. The water supply, education and medicine sectors had the largest number of older employees.
In general, the survey results showed a 1.1% decrease in the number of employees during 2024.
Almost 55,000 employers were surveyed by the State Employment Service during the employer survey that lasted from December 17, 2024 to January 31, 2025. They selected economically active enterprises with an average number of employees of ten or more people without relation to the defense complex.
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