In Slovenia, according to a rough estimate, at least 80% of the candidates who will be selected for a job are known in advance (an acquaintance, a relative, a job out of benevolence in another field...). In such cases, the call for tenders is nothing more than giving false hope and misleading those who are unemployed and want to work in the advertised job, and they also spend money unnecessarily on paper, ink, copies, envelopes and even on possible interviews, which in these cases are nothing but sand in the eyes.
I propose that the Employment Service, which has all the necessary records of the personnel on the labour market, be actively involved in employment policy. The procedure should be that the employer advertises the job, sets reasonable educational, skills and other conditions (which the Employment Service can check are not geared to accepting a particular person), and then the Employment Service sends the employer candidates, whom it selects according to a certain key (meeting the conditions of the job advertisement, distance from the job....), and the prospective employer has to choose a candidate from among the people sent to him by the Employment Service (the employer has to choose the candidate from among the people sent to him by the Employment Service). This will reduce the number of permanently unemployable people at the Office and will make the employment opportunity equal for all.
It should also be enshrined in law that priority for employment should be given to people who do not yet have a job and not to those who want to change jobs, for example.
This raises the question of what about those who are employed somewhere and want to change jobs for a better one. One solution would be for someone who is employed to apply for a job advertised, to have an independent aptitude test by an independent (non-bribed) panel - this should also go through the Institute. If the person proves that he/she is more capable than the candidates sent by the institution, he/she can be accepted for the post, otherwise not! This would also prevent what is a common habit of the less able being forced into higher and better and better paid jobs, and then those who are able to do the job having their minds salted by those who are able to do the job. In a way, we would prevent, or at least greatly reduce, dictatorship, which is a very common phenomenon.
The exception would be family businesses, where it is logical to employ a person from the family, but it should be made clear what the relationship has to be to fall into that category.