State Employment Agency shall:
provide effective and qualitative assistance to the unemployed, job seekers and people at risk of unemployment to promote their competitiveness in the labour market according to their needs, abilities and wishes;
create and carry out active labour market measures and preventive measures for unemployment reduction;
prepare proposals for the development and implementation of State policy to reduce unemployment and support the unemployed, job seekers and people at risk of unemployment;
licence and supervise the businesses providing work placement services (with the exception of ship crew recruiting);
perform the functions of European Union Fund second level intermediate body or co-operational authority;
evaluate the introduction of active labour market measures and preventive measures for unemployment reduction, carry out cost analysis, offer proposals to improve the measures, as well as promote the diversification of measures in correspondence with labour market demand;
provide short-term labour market forecasts, including surveying the employers;
register and record the unemployed and job seekers, provide information about their rights and obligations, regularly update and improve the registry and recording system, develop and improve the system for classifying the registered unemployed;
improve individual assistance to the unemployed to ensure the soonest re-entry into labour market;

organise cooperation and information exchange between the agency and employers, regularly update and improve the registry of vacancies announced by employers;
register and provide information on the vacancies announced by employers;
provide career consultations for the unemployed, job seekers, people at risk of unemployment and others, as well as regularly improve the informative and methodological basis of career consultation services;
prepare and provide information about state’s unemployment situation in accordance with the normative acts;
cooperate with foreign and international institutions in the field of unemployment reduction, employment promotion and career consultations, and provide measures to ensure information exchange about labour force movement;
ensure the protection of personal data and other information available to the agency in accordance with the normative acts;
ensure the development and implementation of innovative methods and solutions in agency’s assistance to the unemployed, job seekers, people at risk of unemployment, and affiliates;
maintain and systematically update the databases required for performing the functions of agency;
ensure the participation the Republic of Latvia in the European Employment Service network (EURES).