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.
While more jobs will be created as the ASEAN Economic Community comes into effect by the year-end, the number of skilled Vietnamese workers that meet international labour market remains insufficient.
Demand for labourers in the first six months of the year rose 34 percent against the same period last year, heard an online conference held in early July by Vietnamworks.
The central coastal city of Da Nang
has implemented a number of practical measures to boost the local job
market, especially for rural and disadvantaged labourers.