HCM City offers 25,000 job vacancies in December

Students look for part-time jobs during the upcoming New Year and Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays in HCM City. (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Some 25,000 jobs are available in Ho Chi Minh City this month, according to its Human Resources Forecast and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Centre.

Of this, 84% comprise trained and skilled workers with degrees and other certificates.

There are 4,200 jobs for workers who have university degrees or higher, 5,700 for those with college degrees, 7,000 for those with intermediate education qualifications, and 3,800 for those with primary vocational education qualifications.

Some 17,000 are required by the trade and services sector and 8,000 in industry-construction.

Businesses have increased recruitment of seasonal workers.

Nguyen Van Sang, director of the HCM City Youth Vocational Training, Career Orientation and Employment Service Centre, said local businesses would need more than 3,000 part-time and unskilled workers during the upcoming New Year and Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays.

There is also rising demand for part-time workers in sales, services, cash, restaurants and hotels, shipping, and customer care to meet the increasing holiday demand.

The centre is implementing a programme called ‘A month of supporting and accompanying workers’ to help students and laid-off and furloughed workers find jobs./.

VNA