Most students in Ho Chi Minh City want to work for multinational corporations and foreign companies because they believe that they would have opportunities to learn, promote their creativity and gain promotion.

This was a conclusion of the Nhan Viet Management Group’s annual survey titled “Students and careers 2009.”

The survey polled 450 students from 20 universities in HCM City . Sixty-six percent of the respondents were in their last year at university.

Some 75 percent of the students hoped to work for multinational corporations and foreign businesses while only 3.1 percent of students said they preferred to work for State-owned businesses.

The most popular choice of employer was the foreign-owned Unilever Vietnam , for which 28 percent of respondents said they’d like to work. The top-ranking Vietnamese company, which came in fifth-place overall, was the Vietnam Dairy Product Joint-Stock Company (Vinamilk), for which 7 percent said they wanted to work.

A company’s reputation was the most crucial factor for students deciding where to submit job applications, followed by companies’ working policies and conditions and senior leadership capacity.
Some 92 percent of participants wanted their companies to offer them periodical training courses as a way to keep them more involved with their work.

More than 80 percent of students polled took part-time jobs while attending university, in order, they said, to gain work experience as well as cover the expenses of school fees and room rent./.