Ukraine’s accelerating economic crisis is pushing many employers to lay off some of their staff. And for the newly unemployed, finding new work won’t be easy.

The latest official data reveals a 9.9-percent unemployment rate as of the end of the third quarter in 2014, while Oleksandr Zholud, an economic analyst at Kyiv-based International Center for Policy Studies, expects the official unemployment rate to climb to 10 percent this year, which is a 12-year high.