Moldovan capital hosts inauguration of Austria-financed career guidance center

Chisinau, 5 April /MOLDPRES/-The National Employment Agency inaugurated a Career Guidance Center in Chisinau today. The project is financed by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA).

The center aims to help students, young people and individuals who are looking for a job, and assist them with exploring opportunities on the labor market, understand professional diversity, assess their own abilities and profession skills, as well as offer them professional counseling to aid their successful social-economic integration.

Attending the event was also Labor, Social Protection and Family Minister Stela Grigoras. She said the inauguration of such a center would facilitate the integration of young unemployed people among categories of citizens with steady jobs.

“The ministry is currently working out a new employment strategy, as well as a new law to help prevent general unemployment, especially among young people. Such policies empower authorities to back and integrate the young generation on the Moldovan labor market. The inauguration of such a center will help prevent unemployment and actively train young people, as well as other vulnerable social categories, to be part of the labor market,” Grigoras said.

For his part, the director general for cooperation of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Europe, Integration and Foreign Affair, Ambassador Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal said a qualitative training and counseling of young people after their graduation, should be a priority for Moldovan authorities. “We hope that this center will succeed to guide young people and help them get employed, so that they could contribute to Moldova’s development. Austria will further back projects focusing on young people and on their integration into the society,” Launsky-Tieffenthal said.

The inauguration of the Career Guidance Center in Chisinau is part of the “Reconsidering vocational interests and career counseling” project, financed by the Austrian Development Agency. Other three regional subsidiaries of Chisinau, Cahul and Soroca district employment agencies will be subsequently inaugurated, in order to provide citizens with free-of-charge professional counseling and career guidance in the region.

(Reporter P. Beregoi, Editor M. Jantovan)