Ho Chi Minh City needed to hire some 60,000 jobs in four key industries and nine major service sectors in Q3, up 3.5% against the same time last year, according to Director of the HCM City Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Nguyen Hoang Hieu.
HCM City will need up to 83,300 labourers during October - December (Photo: VNA).
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City needed to hire some 60,000 jobs in four key industries and nine major service sectors in Q3, up 3.5% against the same time last year, according to Director of the HCM City Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Nguyen Hoang Hieu.
Falmi’s survey conducted at over 19,400 local firms showed that there were more than 13,100 job vacancies in the four key industries of engineering, electronics – IT, chemical pharmaceuticals – rubber, and food processing that needed to be filled in the period, a year-on-year increase of 12.24%.
Meanwhile, the nine main service sectors of trade, transport and warehouse, tourism, post-telecommunications and ICT, finance – credit – banking – insurance, property, science – technology consultation, education and training, and health care needed nearly 46,700 workers, inching up 1.28% as compared to the same time of 2023.
Hieu said the Government’s acceleration of reform to create a favourable business climate and international integration have created positive impacts on the Vietnamese economy and Ho Chi Minh City in particular.
The city, she said, has penned flexible solutions to developing the socio-economy as well as supporting the labour market, adding the move has opened up opportunities for workers and made the market become more vibrant for the remainder of the year.
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Falmi said the southern economic hub will need up to 83,300 labourers and will fill 87.46% of the job openings with skilled employees during October – December./.
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