Tunisia/Unemployment: What about the 50,000 planned jobs?
18 August 2011
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After the revolution, new job seekers swelled the ranks of the unemployed, with jobs lost due to looting and vandalism, business closures, decreased activity of exporting companies, especially to Libya, and the 40,000 Tunisians who returned from Libya and flooded the job market. All these factors, in addition to the slowdown in economic activity, mean that the number of unemployed is on an upward curve, Ali Takout, representative of the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment, points out.
The interim government planned the creation of 50,000 jobs, including 21,800 in the civil service, through file-based competitions. The results were announced in August for some ministries, including those of Employment, Industry, and Agriculture... other ministries will publish the results in the coming days on the website designed for this purpose: www.concours.gov.tn. Some 350,000 applications were submitted for these competitions, including applications from the same applicant for different positions.
Furthermore, some 4,000 to 4,500 job offers were received by the Ministry of Employment from public companies such as SNCFT, STEG, CPG (Gafsa Phosphate Company), STAM (Tunisian Stevedoring and Handling Company), etc.
The 20,000 jobs planned in the private sector remain dependent on the improvement of the economic situation. The authorities are aiming for a growth rate of 1% by December to achieve the creation of 20,000 jobs in the private sector. According to Ali Takout, "investment intentions in the industrial sector for 2011 are around 2002, and aim to create 45,000 jobs"! However, these are only intentions that have not yet materialized, with just over four months to go until the end of 2011.
Sami Ajroud, a business leader present at the show, proposes a project that would employ 5,500 university graduates, according to him. This project consists of creating websites for educational institutions and sending SMS messages to parents if their children are absent. Sami Ajroud was prevented from carrying out his project under the fallen regime, and his idea earned him seven months in prison after he refused to cede it to the Trabelsi family, who had a monopoly on the SMS market. After January 14, this young business leader, holding a higher technical diploma, relaunched his project but has not yet found attentive ears within the transitional government. "The state will not spend a penny on this project, whose turnover is 40 billion per year," he says. The ball is now in the court of the Ministry of Education; our contact says he has not been able to meet the minister despite numerous attempts.
In addition to the domestic market, the Ministry of Employment says it is working to secure 5,000 jobs in the foreign market. But Ali Takout remains skeptical: "in a volatile and erratic global market, you cannot guarantee 5,000 jobs." He mentions the agreement signed with France as part of the management of migratory flows, which provides for 9,000 jobs for Tunisians. Its application, however, remains timid. A shock that he explains by the severity of the French side in welcoming Tunisians. But his ministry will not limit itself to the French and Italian markets, but says it is exploring other markets, such as Canada, Australia, and the Gulf countries, which remain in demand for Tunisian skills and labor.
In doing so, 150,000 university graduates benefit from the active job search program, called the Amal program, with a grant of 200 dinars/month.
H.J.
Published August 16, 2011.
Online August 18, 2011.
Gnet.tn
The interim government planned the creation of 50,000 jobs, including 21,800 in the civil service, through file-based competitions. The results were announced in August for some ministries, including those of Employment, Industry, and Agriculture... other ministries will publish the results in the coming days on the website designed for this purpose: www.concours.gov.tn. Some 350,000 applications were submitted for these competitions, including applications from the same applicant for different positions.
Furthermore, some 4,000 to 4,500 job offers were received by the Ministry of Employment from public companies such as SNCFT, STEG, CPG (Gafsa Phosphate Company), STAM (Tunisian Stevedoring and Handling Company), etc.
The 20,000 jobs planned in the private sector remain dependent on the improvement of the economic situation. The authorities are aiming for a growth rate of 1% by December to achieve the creation of 20,000 jobs in the private sector. According to Ali Takout, "investment intentions in the industrial sector for 2011 are around 2002, and aim to create 45,000 jobs"! However, these are only intentions that have not yet materialized, with just over four months to go until the end of 2011.
Sami Ajroud, a business leader present at the show, proposes a project that would employ 5,500 university graduates, according to him. This project consists of creating websites for educational institutions and sending SMS messages to parents if their children are absent. Sami Ajroud was prevented from carrying out his project under the fallen regime, and his idea earned him seven months in prison after he refused to cede it to the Trabelsi family, who had a monopoly on the SMS market. After January 14, this young business leader, holding a higher technical diploma, relaunched his project but has not yet found attentive ears within the transitional government. "The state will not spend a penny on this project, whose turnover is 40 billion per year," he says. The ball is now in the court of the Ministry of Education; our contact says he has not been able to meet the minister despite numerous attempts.
In addition to the domestic market, the Ministry of Employment says it is working to secure 5,000 jobs in the foreign market. But Ali Takout remains skeptical: "in a volatile and erratic global market, you cannot guarantee 5,000 jobs." He mentions the agreement signed with France as part of the management of migratory flows, which provides for 9,000 jobs for Tunisians. Its application, however, remains timid. A shock that he explains by the severity of the French side in welcoming Tunisians. But his ministry will not limit itself to the French and Italian markets, but says it is exploring other markets, such as Canada, Australia, and the Gulf countries, which remain in demand for Tunisian skills and labor.
In doing so, 150,000 university graduates benefit from the active job search program, called the Amal program, with a grant of 200 dinars/month.
H.J.
Published August 16, 2011.
Online August 18, 2011.
Gnet.tn
