At the job festival (Photo: vov) Da Nang (VNA) – More than 1,000 students and residents in the centralcity of Da Nang flocked to a job festival on July 5 to seek advice andopportunities in both training and employment.
The event, jointlyheld by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in Da Nang city, the municipalDepartment of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, and the city young entrepreneurs’association, brought together 150 businesses with 26 booths.
It also featured adialogue between young entrepreneurs and students, along with 10 booths for vocationaltraining establishments to provide consultation in this regard.
According to NguyenThanh Diep, deputy director of the job service centre under the Department ofLabour, Invalids and Social Affairs, the centre organises four job transaction sessionseach month.
However, he added,due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, only 15 sessions have been held sofar this year.
Given the increasingnumber of job hunters in the post-pandemic period, the centre will organise a job transactionevery Friday, while joining hands with job service centres in Quang Nam, QuangNgai and Thua Thien-Hue provinces to hold online sessions, he said.
The unemployment rate inVietnamese urban areas in the second quarter jumped to the highest in the pastdecade due to the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the GeneralStatistics Office (GSO) revealed.
The national jobless rate in the first halfof this year was estimated at 2.26 percent, as compared with 1.99 percentrecorded last year. The rate in urban and rural areas stood at 3.26 percent and1.59 percent, respectively./.
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