In the third quarter of this year, the number of job vacancies increased by over a thousand, which is a 3.5 percent rise compared to the previous quarter. By the end of this period, approximately 39,000 vacancies were recorded, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), resulting in a vacancy rate of nearly five percent. Of these total job vacancies, more than 13,000—around 39 percent—were identified in the budgetary sector.