The jobs are mostly in the areas of business-trade, service, garment-footwear, food processing, customer services, marketing, construction, IT, office admin, transport-warehouse-port services, and real estate.

Ho Chi Minh City has about 105,000 job vacancies in the rest of the year.

Of the total, 84.5% need trained workers.

According to the city Department of Labour-Invalids and Social Affairs, the city has so far this year filled 172,561 job vacancies and created 78.651 new employments.

Due to the impact of Covid-19 pandemic, the number of labourers who got employment reduced 5.6%, while that of new jobs also dropped 6.72%.

Falmi Director Tran Le Thanh Truc said that from Mid-February, the demand for labourers of businesses fell more than 28% compared to the same period last year.

A survey by the centre showed that prolonged difficulties facing the firms include those in seeking customers, selling products, transportation, shortage of material for production, and access to support policies.

Truc said that in order to connect labourers and businesses, the centre has increased activities of employment consultations, re-training and job seeking for labourers in all of its six branches.

Alongside, the centre has held employment transaction sessions twice per month.

So far this year, the centre has organised 20 job transaction sessions, during which 223,360 labourers received employment consultations and more than 21,400 got jobs.

Job Service Center in Bac Giang province links businesses and labourers

(BGO) – To well consult and introduce the jobs to labourers, recently the Job Service Center (JSC) in Bac Giang province has continuously renovated the method to organize the transaction session, develop the market information system, reinforce the linkage to the vocational school and enterprises, hence supporting the labour supply-demand and solving the target of job creating to reduce the unemployment rate.  

Vocational schools, colleges expect 80 percent of graduates to find jobs

More than 80 percent of graduates at most colleges and vocational training schools in HCM City this year have found jobs, according to the city’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

HCM City sees 26,000 job vacancies in November

Ho Chi Minh City needs about 26,000 workers in November, up more than 4 percent from the previous month, according to the city’s Human Resources Forecast and Labour Market Information Centre (Falmi).

Job opportunities for Vietnamese in Japan's health sector

A total of 240 workers will be chosen to work in Japanese hospitals this year, the Department of Overseas Labour (DoLAB) under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has announced.

Job opportunities for guest workers back from ROK and Japan

Vietnamese guest workers who returned home from the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan will be offered with further opportunities to work for enterprises from the two countries at an upcoming job festival in early September.

Source: NDO