Staff from a labour export company give advice to candidates who want to work overseas at a job fair held by the Hanoi Job Introduction Centre (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs(MoLISA) is devising a scheme to export high-skilled labourers abroad to tackledomestic unemployment.
The project aims to open opportunities for more than 54,000 unemployedgraduates to look for work overseas.
According to MoLISA, the number of unemployed graduates from universities,colleges, vocational training schools or higher education was 326,000 by theend of March and it is rising.
Vietnam has used some programmes tosend skilled workers to countries such as Germany, Japan and the Republic of Korea(RoK), but their effectiveness has been limited.
The ministry said sending skilled labourers abroad will be a sustainable andlong-term project from now to 2025.
The scheme is divided into two phases.
In the first phase from now to 2020, more than 17,000 well-trained workers inhealth, electronics, telecommunications, information technology, mechanics,cooking and hotels will be sent to Germany, Japan and the RoK.
In the second phase from 2021 to 2025, more than 39,000 labourers trained inphysics, informatics, cooking and sailing will work in these countries.
In addition, labourers will be sent to ASEANcountries and the United Arab Emirates to work in the beauty industry, hoteland restaurant services, engineering and construction.
Tong Hai Nam, deputy head of MoLISA’s Overseas Labour Management Department,said that total funding for the project was about 1.3 trillion VND (more than 57million USD) from the state budget, loans from the Vietnam Development Bank andthe Fund for Support of Abroad Employment Development.
"The state budget only plays a supporting role in policies and mechanisms,while the people who want to work overseas or schools that wish to participatein the project will borrow from the bank or fund," Nam told Thoi BaoKinh Doanh (Business Times).
Meanwhile, the number of unemployed skilled labourers is increasing, but it isnot easy to find a job abroad because training at home does not meet therequirements, experts say.
Nam said that it was necessary to adjust vocational training to matchinternational standards.
"Next time, we will negotiate with host countries for recognition ofqualifications and may receive their modules and training content to teach athome," Nam said.
Currently, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan are the marketswith the most Vietnamese workers. By the end of June, Japan was the largestlabour market with 5,755 employees, followed by Taiwan with 5,691 and the RoKwith 818.
According to the Overseas Labour Management Department, in the first six monthsthis year, the total number of Vietnamese laborers working abroad is 57,424,accounting for 54.69 percent of the 2017 plan, up 6.08 percent over the sameperiod last year.
Under the plan, MoLISA aims to send 105,000labourers to work in the RoK, Japan and Taiwan this year.
Besides these main markets, the ministry is trying to complete deals withThailand, Laos, Malaysia and Australia to send more workers abroad.
It will continue to send nurses and hospital orderlies to Japan and Germany towork under agreements signed between Vietnam and the two countries.
According to Nam, the number of Vietnameseworkers abroad has increased steadily over the past three years. Job skilldemands have become tougher. Japan, the RoK and Germany are the most demandingmarkets.
Besides good health, labourers have to have other skills such as foreignlanguages and high professionalism, he said.
However, Nam also said that if Vietnam trainshigh quality labour, priority must be given to domestic use.-VNA
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