The employment and the education are two main priorities of the country. It takes not much time to understand that for decision of first question the other is necessary. The education reform is a Rose revolution's main task. The Common National Exams appeared to be quite successful. Nevertheless quite another question is how far successful will be the knowledge given to students by different high schools. And the other question is that Georgian state officials and heads of big companies are not much satisfied with the Georgian young people with Georgian higher schools education. More over setting such criteria they are discrediting the Georgian education and the image of the country. In Georgia one can find only 2-3 uncorrupted ministries and its subordinated bodies no more. The Georgian business is not less corrupted as well.
Now any company be it the pharmaceutical or trade-commercial when taking new employers for interview are demanding one and the same test in General abilities - this is something like a modern style, as if the guys are thinking like the governmental figures. At the same time the announcers of the vacancy are less interests with the real professional abilities of the future employee. First of all namely this question makes the competitions for the vacancies to look like an absurd theatre. For example if you need to hire in your company a lawyer you have to be interested can this person pass the test for general abilities but not with the concrete question what he will do in your company as a lawyer, is he a professional in his area speaks he foreign languages and so on.
Also, there is a discrimination of Georgian education when employers are demanding the foreign educated professionals refusing the Georgian high schools graduates. Such companies announcing the vacancy only for the foreign educated ones are discriminating thousands of counterparts.
The interesting point is as well when the companies are demanding the passing of the General Abilities Test when hiring new staff. It seems like future employees are obliged to pass this test twice - ones during the actual state exams and secondly when such demagogic demand is announced by company heads. Will be strange enough if such test will be connected with the activity of high professional in cyber science for example and the test has to pass employee with legal education. Or contrary need cyber scientist to pass the legal matters test?
To think about the payment abilities of our counterparts only 1 percent of population can afford the foreign education nowadays. But the problem is quite another, if the official state bodies are not recognizing the Georgian high education, then why the government spends so much money for the financing of students and magistrates?
The news agency GHN conducted an experiment sending the different kind CV for 134 vacancies, only one response was received from Public Defender's Office at the end explaining that the candidate is not appropriate for the concrete vacancy.
In other case the excellent CVs were sent and no company from 133 did not responded. This makes us be doubtful with the sincerity of vacancy announcers. Do they indeed need to hire someone?

Now about the examples. Before her appointment to the post of Economic Minister, Vera Qobalia declared that she is going to announce vacancies for a range of the positions
Our cadre's policy will be with zero percent nepotism. One of the curios happening s in this respect was that one of the potential employees who passed successfully all stages of hiring process and examinations get a response from Minister - no this person too young. The main is that there was not a nepotism and argumentation strongest. Likewise, President as well could discard her candidacy for her youngness. In such case Vera Qobalia could not became a Stable Development Minister. One more example, when it was necessary for her she refused to conduct a competition for vacancy and directly appointed a person to the post of National investment Agency head by own decision. Keti Bochorishvili said to GHN that she did not participate in any competitions. "What about my appointment, I simply presented my own vision and plan for the development of the agency my plan was approved, my experience in the field was taken into consideration and I was called for the apomiment to the position. It is strange a bit, but it was like this: "I wrote, presented and won!"

"We have a definite plan we have to rise our economy, to strengthen the small business, to drug investments and tourists to our country and of coerce we have to create new employment opportunities. We have to decrease the unemployment, " - Vera Qobalia has had declared when the competitions were declared for the vacancies.
Now about the main theme. Recently , the Economic Minster declared that for the taking the office of the deputy head of Legal Department in the Ministry and the leading specialist of the same department one needs be foreign educated to have "Maser's degree in law - LLM degree taken in EU or USA". From this it becomes clear that Vera Qobalia doesn't recognize not only the Georgian education, but as well she does not recognize any other degrees issued by Israel, Turkey, Canada and so on.
Such declarations can be tolerated somehow from the private sector business, as there is not a law prohibiting this, but the same actions from the official bodies are strange enough and immoral. The doubt is quite big that for the above mentioned position the beforehand selected own candidacy was predetermined.
And one more snake! In most cases the different bodies and companies even are not declaring how high is the passing point for the competition for the vacancy. They are making the barriers as they wish for own cases.
In such circumstances there is not a hope for thousands of people that there is some firneness in the country, and the various competitions for the vacancies  in fact are only for the façade.
For what was I studying? This question is posed frequently by young people, who are desperately looking for the job in own specialty after the accomplishment of the university. But those who guess earlier the uselessness of the studying marathon in Georgia are looking for the solution abroad. In principle no other ways are possible. In the country were young person is not accepted for the job because of his youngness but not because of his knowledge and was told "go from here with your Georgian education", one can think seriously that Georgian education is stably nonperspective.

 

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