Australian businesses will have a great chance to be successful with their business in Vietnam once they embrace and respect the local culture, treat Vietnamese workforce with respect, and speak a little slower than they do at home, said Austal CEO Patrick Gregg.
Nearly 54.58 million people have jobs in the second quarter of this year, heard a press conference held in Hanoi on July 10 by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).
Investment in Vietnam from the Republic of Korea (RoK) is expected to rise further, increasing demand for labour, according to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (Kotra).
An estimate of 54.6 million jobs were added to the Vietnamese workforce in the first three months of 2019, up 0.11 percent from the last quarter of 2018.
The central city of Da Nang aims to accelerate economic growth from 7.68 percent to 12 percent, while more drastic measures and administrative reforms are needed to turn the city into an as a destination to investment and tourism.
An international symposium took place in Hanoi on October 19 to suggest policy solutions towards helping Vietnam develop sustainably amid demographic changes.
The Vietnam – Australia partnership programme on innovation was announced during a ceremony in the central city of Da Nang on November 8, within the framework of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week.
Only 21 percent of Vietnamese workers are provided with training. Meanwhile labour productivity is low. The information was released at a seminar on enhancing the quality of Vietnamese workforce in
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, his spouse and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam on August 19 offered incense and flowers in tribute to President Ho Chi Minh in the Thai province of Nakhon Pathom.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the International Labour Organisation organised a workshop to seek ways to help Vietnamese workforce better prepare for changes in technology and labour requirements.
Germany decided to expand a Vietnam-Germany orderlies training pilot project, receiving more of Vietnamese workforce to take care of the elderly in the country.
Vietnamese children aged 7-14 chose the profession of doctor as their top career choice in the annual children's career survey conducted by Adecco Vietnam.
While hopes are high that the coming ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will bring opportunities to Vietnamese labour, the country's workforce still has a lot of work to do to take advantage of them.
About 800 job fairs have been organised nationwide since 2011, through which 8 million job seekers were provided with consultation and vacancies and 3 million of them actually found employment.
Employers are increasingly looking at working skills and job-hopping
probability rather than "competitive salary requirements" when hiring
new graduates, a survey has shown.
Businesses need to pay heed to regulations in their import and export
markets to optimise opportunities brought about by free trade agreements
(FTAs), as a number of such deals have been or are to be signed,
according to insiders.
In an effort to optimise national development, Vietnam is becoming more
selective regarding foreign direct investment (FDI), screening and
declining projects incompatible with long-term goals. Report by radio
The Voice of Vietnam (VOV).
Vietnam is facing numerous challenges in its bid to improve human
resources and take advantage of the current period of "golden
population", experts have said.
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