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The President's first prize for outstanding young worker presented to a welder
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Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ Today,
President of Mongolia Khaltmaagiin Battulga issued a decree on Awarding an
Outstanding Young Worker and presented the Presidential Prize to welder
Uujimsetgel Erdene, student of the Mongolian-Korean Polytechnical College, who
is making an admirable contribution to the sphere of labor with her outstanding
professionalism, talent, and productivity and her encouragement of the younger
generation towards hard work and creative production.
After the presentation, President Battulga gave remarks: “Good
day to everyone, I presented the first Presidential Prize for Outstanding Young
Worker today, and it is a very important award. When I, as President, held town
hall meetings with the residents of nine districts of the capital city and 21
provinces of Mongolia, a number of people said that “the young people lack
interest in labor despite of the existing job opportunities.”
A survey conducted by the National Statistics Office indicates
that there were around 25 thousand registered unemployed people in early 2018.
Majority of them are people of age 25-34. However, there are 35 thousand job
openings announced by the Labor Exchange. It exceeds the number of the
registered unemployed by 10 thousand.
The biggest challenge we face is lack of professionalism and
aptitude for labor. Employers often talk about shortage of professional
workers. It is time we reformed the education system which fails to evaluate
the policy and planning in regard to demand and supply in the labor market,
thus expanding the rank of unemployed people every year. As such, the policy
support towards vocational education and manufacturing has proven efficient.
Between those who acquired vocational education in an on-demand field and those
who graduated a college in the most common program, the ratio for employment
probability has become 99 to 1.” President Battulga encouraged young people to
excel in their work and accomplish great things just like the 18-year-old Uujimsetgel.
source: president.mn
