Vologda city placement service had over 15,5 thousand vacancies in 2005, said its director Nadezhda Bersenyova. According to her, misbalance of demand and supply stays the main problem of labour-market. There is lack of workers and surplus of specialists with university degree observed. The structure of vacancies showed 5% growth of demand for professional workmen last year, and it constituted 89% of all vacancies. The most claimed professions on the labour-market are professions of a builder and worker. There are also demand for experienced managers, stockmen, junior managers, doctors, programmers. Now, as before, about 80% vacancies are for men, meanwhile about 80% unemployed are women.