18.02.2022

UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE CAN ACQUIRE A NEW PROFESSION WITH STATE MONEY

The Employment Agency already provides funds for training of the unemployed and employed. Unemployed people can acquire a new profession at the expense of the state budget.

Employers can also hire unemployed people and include them in a dual form of training against financial incentives.

The courses for acquiring a new profession by the unemployed are held in the four branches of the state enterprise "Bulgarian-German Center for Vocational Training" in Pleven, Pazardzhik, Smolyan, Stara Zagora, as well as in the Center for Human Resources Development and Regional Initiatives in Kremikovtsi.

Students receive a daily stipend, money for accommodation and travel to the place of study. One of the possibilities for financing is when hiring unemployed people to work under the already popular "dual training system" (Article 46a of the Employment Promotion Act). Through it, the Employment Agency stimulates the parallel conduct of theoretical training by a training institution and the acquisition of practical training in a real work environment under the guidance of a mentor.

For this purpose, funds from the state budget are provided on a monthly basis for basic remuneration for each employed unemployed person and his/her mentor, and this continues throughout the training period, but for no more than 36 months.

In addition, the costs of training in the profession required for the specific job are borne in full and for each person. The employer has the right to choose the training institution and to agree with it the curriculum and the program for conducting and optimal combination of the learning process and the work activity of the employees for training through work.

At the same time, the Employment Agency expects applications from employers who want to hire unemployed people after they have acquired a profession necessary for the specific job. In this form the training of the unemployed is financed 100% of the state budget, and for the period of training the students receive daily scholarships and means of transport, in case their place of residence is in another settlement. The employer chooses a training organization with which they jointly form the training schedule and conduct the selection of unemployed persons to be trained and subsequently employed for at least 6 months. The measure is implemented by the order of art. 63 of the Employment Promotion Act and the Employment Agency has a long-standing practice in providing it.

Financial support for conducting trainings on key competencies of their employees can also be received by micro, small and medium enterprises, as the support amounts to 50% of the value of the training. In this form, too, employers choose the training organization, curriculum and training schedule.

Detailed information about the active forms of training in the current period can be found on the website of the Employment Agency, as well as in all labor offices in the country.

Unemployed or employed persons can express their wishes for trainings in the questionnaire form "For those who wish to train" published in the "Questionnaire" section of the Agency's website, and the information from this questionnaire is used for planning and organizing future trainings.