During 2015 State Oil Company of Azerbaijan received 174,570 applications for employment. The company had 3,889 vacancies, Halik Mammadov, SOCAR Vice President for Human Resources and IT, said at the Caspian Oil & Gas 2016 conference on June 3.
One can conclude that last year on average 45 people applied for one vacant position in SOCAR.
“Only 3,753 people have met the requirements. The employment procedure has been absolutely transparent. Thus, SOCAR has employed more qualified professionals,” Mammadov said.
SOCAR top manager said that right now SOCAR, including its subdivisions, employ 51,209 people in Azerbaijan.
“Of this number 12% employees occupy leading positions, 19% are professionals and 69% are workers. 14% of SOCAR employees are people under 30 years of age, 20% people between 41 and 50 years of age, 22% - between 31 and 40 years of age and 38% are older than 51 years of age. 83% of the employees are men and 17% are women,” he added.
Mammadov said that 32% from total number of SOCAR’s employees are people with high education, 13% with special technical education, 5% with professional education and 50% with secondary education.
Table of SOCAR’s employees
|
Years |
Number of employees |
|
2010 |
75 502 |
|
2011 |
78 844 |
|
2012 |
70 901 |
|
2013 |
65 568 |
|
2014 |
56 460 |
|
2016 (by April) |
51 209 |
By early April 2016 BP-Azerbaijan company had 2,926 employees, of which 85% are Azerbaijani citizens. The company announced that it employed 22,000 people for the Shah Deniz-2 project.—0—
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