Kazakhstan launches Atameken support centers to raise employment
The National Chamber of Entrepreneurs jointly with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and akimats of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, and Shymkent has launched the Atameken support center in Kazakhstan.
The key tasks of the project are to establish contacts with the unemployed population and provide employment.
The mobile offices of the Atameken support center will be located in the most visited places, i.e. near shopping centers, markets, and railway stations.
"Our priority in this project is a dialogue with the population. The task of mobile centres is to help in employment, and explain what tools exist that may help people to find a source of income, identify and reveal their business potential," the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Atameken NCE RK Eldar Zhumagaziev said.
A distinctive feature of the project is the format in which the team of the Atameken support center will work. The services will be provided by 4 managers and 1 personal growth consultant. Thus employees will work in a pro-active mode, which is not simply to accept people, but constantly go to the places of gathering of people, to offer tools of support in employment questions.
"The unemployed people come to us. We have a database of vacancies, which we create based on a survey of employers. We look at the database, which we can offer a person taking into account their skills and qualifications and offer," Aydana Togizbayeva, Deputy Director of the Human Capital Development Department of the Atameken NCE RK, said.
If there is no suitable vacancy in the database, the visitors will be offered a new profession. Clients will be able to sign up for short-term training courses (within the framework of the Enbek state employment program), which are conducted on the basis of enterprises. Such training lasts from one to six months and provides for a scholarship and further employment.
Also, the consultants will help applicants to participate in the Zhas Kasipker project. Unemployed and self-employed young people aged 18 to 29 will be able to enroll in courses on the basics of entrepreneurship. The training lasts 1 month, and the participants are helped to draw up a business plan, receive support in obtaining funding and further assistance in running a business. Within the framework of the Zhas Kasipker project, 200 schools were launched, 60 of them in Nur-Sultan, Almaty, and Shymkent. Also, the applicants will be able to take part in the Bastau project. Regardless of their age, self-employed and unemployed people will be able to get key skills of doing business, apply for microcredit, open or expand their business within a month.
Each Atameken center has a personal growth consultant who will conduct tests to determine the most suitable professions, advice on the skills to be developed and draw an individual development map.
"Every city has employment centers. They will be supported by such mobile employment centers to provide services in a proactive format," the Vice-Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the RK Akmadi Sarbasov said.
There are three mobile employment centers in Nur-Sultan, in total eight of them will work. The Atameken support centers will operate in three cities of the country in a pilot mode - Nur-Sultan, Almaty, and Shymkent. The total number of such centers will be 30: 12 centers in Almaty; 10 – in Shymkent; 8 – in Nur-Sultan.
Remind that the project is realized within the instruction of the President of RK Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on coverage by measures of assistance: employment of more than 300,000 unemployed and self-employed; transition to a proactive mode of all measures of assistance to employment.
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