HCM City Opens Job Bazaar to Ease Workforce Thirst

Ho Chi Minh City, the biggest city in southern Vietnam kicked off a four-day job bazaar today, March 9 with the aim to seek around 10,000 laborers working in the fields of mechanism, electricity, transport, accountancy, interpreters, and salesmen to ease the lack of employees in the city.

 

Some will be employed by local companies, and others will go aboard to work.

 

The bazaar is also aimed to give vocational guidance for young people to help them achieve the right orientation for their future career.

 

The bazaar is an activity launched to respond to the Month of Youth, which is jubilant throughout the country. It is expected to draw the attendance of 46 schools, and 21 businesses.

 

According to an official from the city's Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), industrial and export processing zones in Ho Chi Minh City are in serious shortage of an additional 50,000 skilled and manual workers this year.

 

Currently, Ho Chi Minh City has three EPZs, and 17 IZs comprising of 787 enterprises and employing 170,000 workers between the ages of 18-25.

 

The city now has around 4.16 million people of working age, accounting for 67.66 per cent of the total population. Among them, 53.8 per cent are female laborers. The city will have an additional 70,000 people reaching working age, and 60,000 students graduating universities in need of jobs this year.