Students read employment information at the job fair held in Hanoi on January 4. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the city’sAssociation of Small and Medium Enterprises on January 4 opened a job fair withthe participation of 40 companies that offer nearly 2,000 part-time jobpositions during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
Director of the department Bach Lien Huong said that the jobfair, the first one in Hanoi in 2023, aims to diversify activities ofthe city’s Job Transaction Floor, improve the efficiency of the labour supplyand demand connection, and provide information about part-time jobs for workersand students in the city.
It is also a good opportunity for the young workforce toapproach the labour market and sharpen their skills to adapt to changes in thelabour market upon graduation.
Of the employers attending the job fair, 28, or 70%, areoperating in the trade and service industries. Up to 42.3% of the jobs are offered to manual labourers, 17.2% to those with vocational trainingcertificates and 40.5% to university/college graduates.
In 2022, thanks to the implementation of labour marketdevelopment solutions, more than 200,000 people in the city got jobs, up 24% from the previous year./.
