Job search support and equal opportunities
PES services that ensure the implementation of this right:
- Job selection according to a person's qualifications, experience, and wishes.
- The only vacancy database that is updated daily and provides access to offers throughout Ukraine.
- The "Single Window of Services" service is the largest database of support programs for IDPs, people with disabilities, and veterans.
- Individual career counseling to determine professional goals, development opportunities, write a resume, and pass an interview.
- Employment promotion programs for people with disabilities, veterans, youth, internally displaced persons, and citizens 45+.
- Barrier-free space: 80% PES services are available online, and work is constantly underway to equip accessible offices.
Support in choosing a profession
PES services that ensure the implementation of this right:
- Vocational training, retraining and advanced training to master a sought-after profession or change career direction.
- A training voucher that provides the opportunity to pay for additional education in 156 professions/specialties.
- Career guidance services, including testing, webinars, and consultations for youth and adults.
- Free training for women for employment in fields where they have been traditionally underrepresented.
The services of the State Employment Service are provided regardless of:
- gender, age and marital status;
- nationality, citizenship, language and place of residence;
- racial or ethnic origin;
- religious or political beliefs;
- social status, property status or level of education;
- previous place of work or professional experience;
- belonging to any groups or communities;
- the conditions in which the person found himself, if they do not contradict the law.
Support for citizens during unemployment
PES services that ensure the implementation of this right:
- Granting unemployed status and supporting the person throughout the entire job search period.
- Payment of unemployment benefits, which supports citizens during difficult times.
- Participation in community service and temporary work that allows you to earn extra income and support communities. Compensation programs for employers that stimulate the creation of new jobs.
- Compensation programs for employers that stimulate the creation of new jobs.
Providing grants for your own business
PES services that ensure the implementation of this right:
- The "Own Business" program of the Employment Service provides an opportunity to receive grant funds for starting or developing a business. A microgrant can be received by both an existing entrepreneur and a person without experience, depending on the type of entrepreneurial activity.
- Separate conditions have been created for the development of entrepreneurship for our veterans and their family members, residents of front-line territories, representatives of creative industries and preschool education, and other categories of citizens.
- The right to work is not only a constitutional norm, but also real opportunities that the State Employment Service provides every day. Our task is to create conditions in which everyone can realize their professional potential, receive support and feel protected.