12.2 % Unemployed in December

The unemployment rate for the last month of 2006 is 12.2 percent, which means there are a little over 35,000 registered unemployed people.

According to the Croatian Employment Bureau (HZZ) information, there are 10.2 percent of unemployed people less in Zagreb than in December 2005. The unemployment rate for the last month of 2006 is 12.2 percent, which means there are a little over 35,000 registered unemployed people.

During the past year, thousands found work thanks to the the recruitment services of web-sites. A A total of 32,420 advertisments searching employees were placed on the www.posao.hr web-site alone.

-Having in mind that 90 percent of posts end up taken, we can say, with pleasure, that thanks to our web-site almost three times more people found employment than last year- the web-site director Sasa Jurkovic told Javno.