33,615 Kuwaitis waiting for jobs since six months

KUWAIT CITY, May 2: The Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) revealed that 33,615 job seekers have been registered at the authority for more than six months. According to PAM, these individuals are currently unemployed, do not receive a pension, and are not enrolled in any educational institution. Statistics from PAM showed that the registered individuals include 31 doctorate holders, 565 masteral degree holders, 18,629 university graduates, 6,952 diploma holders, 2,210 high school graduates with two or more years of study, 249 high school graduates with one year of study, 944 high school graduates, 534 with high school diploma and one year experience, 308 with a two-year intermediate certificate, 311 with a one-year intermediate certificate, 511 hold an intermediate certificate with a course of three years or more, 539 hold an intermediate certificate with at least one year experience, 1,000 hold an intermediate certificate, 80 have vocational qualifications and parallel education, 488 with qualifications below the intermediate level, 30 hold below intermediate qualification with a course, and 234 hold below intermediate qualification with at least two years experience.

By Fares Ghaleb Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff