HCM City sees high demand for skilled workers in September. (Photo: VNA) HCM city (VNA) – Of the total 25,000 vacantjobs Ho Chi Minh City needs to fill in September, 81.36 percent require skilledworkers, according to Vice Director of the city’s Human Sources Forecast andLabour Market Information Centre Tran Le Thanh Truc.
She said that most of the job vacancies are in the fields oftransport-warehouse- import & export, property business, IT,mechanics-automation, marketing-public relations, architecture-construction,and electronics-mechatronics, adding jobs requiring workers with universitydegrees or above make up 19.2 percent of the recruitment demand, and those withtraining at colleges, and vocational schools 62.12 percent.
Truc attributed the increasing need for skilled workers to the fact that localenterprises are accelerating investments in upgrading equipment and applyingadvanced technologies in their production and business. Besides, many firms preferexperienced employees to expand their production in preparation for exportorders and the peak consumption season in the last months of 2019.
Director of the city’sYouth Employment Services Centre Nguyen Quang Cuong said local enterprisesshould offer promotion opportunities and good welfare policies to keepcompetent employees.
As for workers, he suggested they should improve their professional skills toenhance adaptation capacity to the labour market.
The centre has organised free training courses on sales, information technology,English and Korean languages for workers without jobs who are receivingunemployment benefits.
It plans to arrange four job fairs from now to the end of the year, withthousands of jobs available in finance-securities-real estate, business and management,mechanics, telecommunications, hotels, tourism, IT, among others.-VNA
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