Unemployment rate projected to rise in HCM City

At least 330,000 people need jobs this year in HCM City, but there will only be about 265,000 job vacancies, according to the deputy director of the city's Centre for Human Resources Forecasting and Labour Market Information.
At least 330,000 people need jobs this year in HCM City, but there willonly be about 265,000 job vacancies, according to the deputy director ofthe city's Centre for Human Resources Forecasting and Labour MarketInformation.

Tran Anh Tuan said that job opportunitieswould mainly exist in the fields of mechanics, construction, IT,services, health, tourism, electronics and electricity services.Industrial parks and export processing zones need about 30,000 people.

Ofthe 330,000 job seekers, 70,000 had no job in 2014. Of the totalnumber, 150,000 were new graduates and 70,000 were from other provincesand cities.

This year, the labour market requires higher quality, skilled workers.

Tuansaid recruitment demands for high-ranking managers and high-qualityhuman resources were expected to increase sharply compared to last year.

However, many graduates from university are lacking professional skills, career ethics and foreign-language skills.

The labour market is seeing severe competition between experienced staff and new university graduates.

Experienced staff occupy 85 percent of the total labour force, an increase of 40 percent compared to 2013.

Higherquality candidates squeeze out new graduates looking for work,particularly those who have few professional skills, leading to a highunemployment rate among these graduates.

In addition, theallocation of human resources in the city remains unbalanced in variouseconomic sectors, creating a gap between supply and demand.

Some companies' work and salary policies demotivate staff, thus decreasing productivity.

Inaddition, vocational training is still not sought by students as mostyoung people (76 percent) and families still consider university studyas the key to success.

Imbalance of labour demand-supply

*Construction-Architecture: labour demand has fallen 38 percentcompared to 2013. The job vacancy has met only 55 percent of demand.

* IT: Labour supply has satisfied 42 percent of companies' recruitment demand.

*Textile and garment, leather footwear: The sectors always requireskilled workers, especially for managers and designers. There has been adrop of 20 percent in the need for employees without training.

* Tourism services, restaurant-hotel: Recruitment demand has increased sharply, by 65 percent compared to 2013.

*Finance-Banking: Recruitment demand has increased 10-5 percent peryear, mainly requiring high-quality human resources, skilled labourersand those good at a foreign language.-VNA

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