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Wednesday - May 1, 2013 22:46
The Center for Human Resource Demand Forecasting and Labor Market Information of Ho Chi Minh City has just announced 12 groups of occupations that are "attractive" to many workers in 2013, accounting for more than 91% of the total recruitment demand of 270,000 workers.
12 hot career groups in Vietnam in 2013
The data is from the results of a survey on labor recruitment needs at about 6,000 enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City, information shared by Mr. Tran Anh Tuan - Deputy Director of the Center for Human Resource Demand Forecasting and Labor Market Information of Ho Chi Minh City.
Mr. Tuan said:
- Industries attracting labor include: marketing - business - sales; tourism - restaurant - hotel - service - catering; IT - electronics - telecommunications; management - administration - education - training; textile - garment - footwear; finance - accounting - auditing - investment - real estate - securities; consulting - insurance; mechanics - metallurgy - automotive technology; chemistry - medicine, health care; construction - architecture - transportation; electricity - industrial electricity - refrigeration; warehouse - materials - import and export.
Students need to equip themselves better to adapt to the 2013 labor market.
Particularly, the HCMC Export Processing and Industrial Zones will focus on recruiting for mechanical, electronic, IT, chemical - pharmaceutical - rubber, and food processing industries (about 30,000 workers).
- In 2013, the labor supply target for university graduates and above accounted for 12.81%; college and intermediate vocational graduates accounted for 32.73%; primary vocational and skilled technical workers (11.11%); the rest fell into untrained laborers (accounting for 43.35%).
In general, the 2013 labor market develops in parallel with the trend of enterprises improving the quality of labor recruitment, combined with overcoming the common difficulties of the economy. Therefore, the shift in the structure of skill levels, labor supply and demand is forecasted to have many paradoxes and fluctuations, leading to the situation of many unemployed workers (or losing their jobs) while enterprises want a team of skilled workers and cannot find unskilled workers.
It is estimated that in the first quarter of 2013, the recruitment trend in the fields of textiles, footwear, food processing, plastic packaging, construction, mechanics, electronics... increased but not much compared to previous years (at the same time), accounting for about 43% of the demand for unskilled labor out of a total of 65,000 vacant jobs at the beginning of the year.
However, starting from the second and third quarters of 2013 onwards, the labor market is forecast to become more stable. Accordingly, the average recruitment demand for each quarter will reach about 70,000 workers. In the fourth quarter of 2013 alone, it is estimated that about 30% of the demand for part-time jobs, work-at-home jobs (through websites or small-scale self-employment...) out of the total demand of 65,000 workers will increase faster than in 2012.
In fact, surveys show that 50% of students who have received job training can find jobs that match their abilities and develop well, while the remaining 50% work in fields other than their field, have low incomes, unstable jobs, and frequently change jobs.
On the other hand, due to the uneven distribution of occupational structure, professional qualifications, human resources and labor attraction policies, and the imbalance between economic sectors, the unemployment rate in Ho Chi Minh City has increased (average 5%/year). To overcome this, managers and businesses need to strengthen synchronous cooperation with agencies, organizations and society to make contingency plans, invest in career guidance, recruitment, training and practice to link labor needs to social reality.
In addition, it is essential to focus on improving human resource forecasting systems, labor market information, investing in developing business relations, and providing job counseling and referrals at schools and training institutions through employment credit funds, poverty reduction funds, and vocational training support funds. This approach actively supports unemployed workers in difficult circumstances to create jobs and support their livelihoods.
