Those who wish to apply for work have to pass two tests.

This year, the Korean Ministry of Employment and Labour’s Human Resources Development Service has applied new requirements to select experienced labourers who meet both professional and physical criteria.

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Instead of taking only one test in Korean language proficiency (EPS-TOPIK) like in previous years, labourers have to take one more to test their professional skills and competency.

The computer-based language proficiency test for Vietnamese workers will be held for those in the manufacturing and construction industries from July 2-31 and the fishery sector from September 23 to October 11.

The workers will sit a professional skill and competency test in September for those in manufacturing and construction, and in November for fishery sector candidates.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will recruit 2,600 fishery labourers; 1,000 manufacturing labourers and 300 construction labourers.

The Centre for Overseas Labour will receive test applications from May 15-17. The exam fee is 24 USD per person.

The centre will announce application venues later. The test results will be published on the centre’s website at www.colab.gov.vn; EPS website www.eps.go.kr or EPS-TOPIK website www.eps.hrdkorea.or.kr/epstopic

Labourers qualified for the tests are those who have not worked in the RoK before and those who worked in the RoK under EPS programme and returned home after the contracts had expired.

Those who illegally stayed in the RoK after the contracts had ended and voluntarily returned home between April and December 2016; July and October, 2017, and October 2018 and March 2019 are allowed to take the tests this year.

The RoK has blocked labourers from some Vietnamese provinces and cities to apply for EPS because the labourers from these localities overstayed and lived illegally in the RoK after the contracts had expired.

The EPS programme is implemented to realise the Memorandum of Understanding on supplying and receiving Vietnamese workers to the RoK between the two governments.

Nearly 50,000 Vietnamese workers are working in the RoK, with about 16,000 of them having stayed after their contracts expired.

Vietnam ready to make labour market effective

The share of job seekers who are using formal channels (employment services) is growing in Vietnam but still accounts for a minority of the job search channels used. Most jobs in the country today are filled through personal contacts, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 

HCM City needs 90,000 labourers in 2019’s first quarter

Around 90,000 workers are needed in HCM City for the first quarter of 2019 the year, with 26 percent of them being unskilled laborers, according to the HCM City Human Resources Forecast and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Centre.

 

Japanese firms seek to recruit Vietnamese labourers

An exchange programme between enterprises operating in Japan’s Aichi prefecture and international students took place at the University of Nagoya last weekend as part of Japan’s recruitment activities.

 

Sixty standout enterprises for labourers honoured

Sixty firms which stood out for their material and spiritual care for laborers were honored at a ceremony held in Hanoi on December 15.

 

Outstanding firms for labourers to be honoured

A ceremony to honor the 60 outstanding businesses for laborers is set to be held in Hanoi on December 15, heard a press conference announcing the 2018 ranking on December 12.

 

Source: VNS/VNA