A worker at Cat Van Loi Industrial Electrical Equipment Manufacturing JSC in HCM City. The city needs skilled workers to meet the plan to increase production at the end of the year. (Photo courtesy of the firm) According to statistics from Ho Chi Minh City's Department ofIndustry and Trade, industrial production in the city continued to grow inNovember. In the first 11 months of 2022, the city's index of industrialproduction (IIP) was estimated to increase by 15.7% compared to the same periodlast year. The IIP of four key industries is estimated to increase by 21.7%.
In this growth momentum, enterprises have been more proactive interms of labour, production, and business plans, overcoming difficulties toprepare goods for the New Year and the Tet (LunarNew Year) holidays.
As the demand for recruiting more workers to serve domesticproduction and exports, Tran Minh Tu, General Director of Kem Nghia Joint StockCompany, said that the company is planning to increase productivity from 31,000products per day to 40,000 products per day, so it needs to recruit 500 moreworkers. However, since the beginning of the year, only 400 have beenrecruited.
As Cat Van Loi Industrial Electrical Equipment Manufacturing JSCneeded skilled workers to meet its plan to increase production and fulfillorders for key projects in Japan and Singapore, Mai Huu Lam, the firm's generaldirector, said that the company regularly cooperates with universities andcolleges to receive students as paid interns, training and recruiting them fortheir operation.
While the demand for skilled workers in HCM City is large,businesses, especially those in the supporting industry, are facing a"brain drain" for skilled workers.
Luu Dinh Thinh, Marketing Director of CNS Amura Co., Ltd, toldlocal media that his firm operates in the field of precision mechanics and ownssome of the most modern machinery and equipment in Vietnam, so it is necessaryto have skilled personnel to operate the machines.
He said: "We take at least six months to train machineworkers, continue to train for an additional three months each year, with goodremuneration, but still inevitably lose people because other businesses arewilling to pay high salaries to get them."
Solutions needed
The Centre for Forecasting Human Needs and Labour MarketInformation HCM City (FALMI) forecast that in the last three months of 2022, thecity's enterprises will need about 69,500 - 77,100 employees. Most businesseshave a need for skilled and trained workers.
According to FALMI, in the 2022-2026 period, the city will focuson developing high-tech industrial parks, which require a lot of workers withhigh technical qualifications, as well as industries based on currenttechnology and equipment.
The city will continue to develop four key industries, with humanresource demand accounting for 23.22% of the total annual labour demand in theperiod. It is forecast that HCM City will have about 271,500 - 322,900 jobseach year.
Experts consider human resources to be one of the importantfactors in developinh the four key industries to help HCM City recover and growin the coming years.
To achieve the goal of sustainable human resource development inboth quantity and quality, meeting the requirements of enterprises, Statemanagement agencies need to build a system of legal documents on human resourcedevelopment, vocational training, and perfect the education system in thedirection of openness and integration, said experts.
In addition, enterprises must always consider employees aspartners, jointly creating the success and development of the enterprises, theysaid./.
VNA
