HCM City to require up to 80,000 workers

HCM City needs 80,000 workers from now until the end of the year, with 30,000 positions for part-time labourers, according to a senior official.
HCM City needs 80,000 workers from now until the end of the year, with 30,000 positions for part-time labourers, according to a senior official.

Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of the HCM City Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information, said manual labourers and workers trained in vocational schools would account for 40 and 30 percent of the demand, respectively.

University and college graduates would make up the remaining 30 percent of the demand, he added.

Mechanical, electronics and IT engineers, chemists, food processing technologists, civil engineers, sales and marketing personnel and workers with expertise in the garment and footwear industries as well as service sectors would be most in need in the coming months, Tuan said.

He said labour demand in garment, food processing and electronics sectors would be stable for the remaining months of the year, and positions would have an offer average monthly salary of more than 2 million VND (104 USD).

More than 222,400 people were newly employed in the first nine months of the year, accounting for nearly 83 percent of the city's target to create jobs for 270,000 this year, statistics showed./.

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