Number of jobs available in Romania by August 20 ups to 9,321, data show

Most vacancies between August 13 and 20 are in Bucharest (978), the central county of Cluj (663) and the western county of Hunedoara (631). The lowest numbers of available jobs were reported in the counties of Alba (27) and Ialomita (31).

The number of unemployed in Romania increased by 23,632 in July to 572,562, a new maximum of the past 5 years and one month, exceeding by far the initial estimate of the Labor Ministry regarding the jobless count at year-end, ANOFM announced last week. 

The unemployment rate rose to 6.3 percent in July from 6 percent in June, when some 548,930 jobless persons were recorded. 

Labor Minister Marian Sarbu declared at the beginning of June the unemployment rate could reach 8 percent by year-end, which would translate into a number of 720,000 people without a job, in a very pessimistic scenario.