YEREVAN, DECEMBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. Demand of qualified computer programmers, clerks, tranlators (especially of English), insurance agents, brockers, doctors, pedagogues, turners, welders, milling-machine operators, carpet makers and of specialists of the service sphere is high at the labour exchange of Armenia. As the Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by the "RA Employment Agency" of the RA Ministry of Labour and Social Issues, vacancies for some specialities remain vacant mainly because of low salary. In October 2005, 1109 vacancies were presented to the agency by employers , 306 of those jobs were of the sphere of service, 803 were workers' ones. Among them 71.5% of vacant places are for working specialities requiring high qualification. Those aren't occupied continuously for months because of absence of necessary specialists at the job market or of a low qualification of those present. Only 296 vacancies were occupied till the end of the month.

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