At a job fair (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - Around75,000 workers areneeded in Ho Chi Minh City for the last three months of 2019, up over 7 percentcompared to the same period last year, according to the HCM City HumanResources Forecast and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Centre.
Of the number, the demand fortrained labourers makes up 82.92 percent, including 27.38 percent of skilledworkers. Most of the new jobs areavailable in industry, service, business – sale, and consultation.
A representative from Falmi said now is the time when businessesincrease the recruitment of workers to complete production and business plansand orders for the last months of the year.
Notably, the business – sale sector accounts for 23.24 percent of therecruitment demand, while the service sector is 15.55 percent.
According to Vice Director of the HCM City Youth Vocational Training, Career Orientationand Employment Service Centre (YES Centre) Nguyen Van Sang, from now to the year-end,businesses have great needs of recruiting workers, especially experiencedworkers, high quality human resources, skilled labourers, and those with foreignlanguage fluency and other skills.
Professional working environment requires workers to equip themselves withappropriate knowledge and skills to meet labour market needs, he noted.
Sang said his centre has coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh City University of Industryto organise a job fair to find more than 7,000 workers from enterprises. Mostbusinesses needed employees in the fields of information technology, environment,construction, economy - finance, tourism - restaurant - hotel, translation -interpretation, law, architecture, and fashion.
In the first nine months of 2019, HCM City recorded over 29,600 newly-registeredbusinesses with a total capital of 450 trillion VND (19.4 billion USD).
Labour and employment experts said the city’s socio-economicstability has had positive impact on labour supply and demand./.
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