site.btaEmployment Agency: April Hiring Boost Cuts Jobless Rate to 5.25%

Unemployment kept falling in April, as 19,725 jobseekers found work through job centres, the Employment Agency said in a press release on Wednesday.

A further 393 employed people, students and pensioners entered new jobs with the help of employment mediators.

A total of 5,361 people from vulnerable groups—people with disabilities, young entrants, over-55s and the long-term unemployed—started subsidized employment. Of these, 5,302 joined projects under the Human Resources Development Programme 2021–2027, co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus.

Roma and youth mediators, together with job-centre teams, brought more than 5,900 inactive people into the labour market during the month.

By the end of April, the register listed 148,895 unemployed, putting the jobless rate at 5.25%, down 0.43 pp from April 2024.

Over 16,800 training vouchers were issued in April to both jobseekers and employees, enabling them to upgrade skills for a digital and shifting economy.

Employers declared 10,869 vacancies on the primary labour market. Manufacturing accounted for 27.1 % of the total, followed by hotels and restaurants (13.3 %), trade and vehicle repair (12.6 %), public administration (12.3 %), administrative and support activities (4.9 %) and education (4.6 %).

Most sought-after occupations were in personal services, caregiving, mining and manufacturing, construction, transport, machine operation and sales.