Unemployment benefit for high-school graduates

Hundreds of high-school graduates from every county are entering directly into unemployment.

These are the first estimations done by the county agencies for employment, which, at the end of the current month, add the files of the high-school graduates who did not manage to pass the baccalaureate exam in the first session to the existent number of unemployed persons at the national level, which amounts to 436 thousands.

Due to the high rate of rejected candidates – more than half – the workforce authorities are expecting a considerable increase in the number of those who are seeking a job, especially after the second baccalaureate session, which will be held at the beginning of fall.

Hundreds of new unemployed persons have been added, at the end of June, to the number of 15 thousand already unemployed persons which were in the evidence of the Vaslui county agency for employment.

They are the high-school graduates, who, with or without a baccalaureate diploma, come and request unemployment benefit.

For many of them, the few money received will represent, for the following months, an important income source, in the context in which the employers do not offer jobs to youngsters without experience.

The offer is not generous for those with experience, either.

The spokesperson of the Vaslui county agency for employment, Laura Toporăscu, states that during this week, the agency offers 164 vacant jobs to those seeking employment.

In this context, the young graduates can only get the unemployment benefit.

The representatives of the agency inform them that this will not happen immediately and they bring to attention the fact that for the following 60 days, they will be looking for a job, without being paid, however.

"Graduates came, indeed. Those who have graduated with a baccalaureate diploma, as well as those without a baccalaureate diploma are seeking a job in a period of 60 days from the moment of graduation and, should they not find a job, they can file requests for unemployment benefit after the completion of those 60 days."

"On a theoretical level, but also on a practical one, during those 60 days after the registration, they are actively seeking a job. They can take a qualification course and they benefit from counselling and professional formation services", Laura Toporăscu declared.

Therefore, it is no wonder that the young high-school or even university graduates seen on the hallways of the unemployment agencies in Vaslui can only hope to one day find a job abroad, where the young graduates think that the work is rewarded with fitting salaries.

Translated by: Mădălina Borcău
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University