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HCM City to need 265,000 workers in 2015

Ho Chi Minh City-based businesses will recruit 265,000 workers next year, according to the municipal Centre for Manpower Need and Labour Market Forecast.
Ho Chi Minh City-based businesses will recruit 265,000 workers nextyear, according to the municipal Centre for Manpower Need and LabourMarket Forecast.

The recruitment demand will be seen in thefields of trade, services, health care, tourism, insurance,finance-banking, mechanical engineering, construction, informationtechnology, electronics and electricity.

DeputyDirector of the centre Tran Anh Tuan stressed the need for workers toenhance soft skills and foreign languages to meet requirements of theintegration process.

According to the centre, in 2014, the city’s labour market has seen a stable growth and a reduction in job changing rate.

Thecity has also witnessed a severe competition between new graduates andexperienced workers, who accounted for 85 percent of the total jobseekers.

According to the municipal Department of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs, HCM City has so far this year created290,000 jobs, including 121,381 new ones. The local unemployment ratein October was 4.67 percent.-VNA
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