Employment demand for smartphone engineers surged and made up 14 percentof the orders placed by employers at Navigos Search in the firstquarter of this year, the biggest proportion of total demand in theperiod.
The provider of executive recruitmentservices explained that many major smartphone producers have chosenVietnam as their key manufacturing base and hiring Vietnamese engineerswould help them reduce production costs, The Saigon Times reported.
However, many electronics companies have found find it hard to recruitqualified candidates, according to a report released by Navigos Searchearly this week.
A local human resource specialistsaid smartphone production is still in the nascent stages of developmentin Vietnam, so there are not many candidates able to meet requirementsof foreign employers, including English competence, communication,problem solving, creativeness and other soft skills.
The apparel sector ranked second with a recruitment demand ratio of 13percent in the first three months of this year, followed by productionmanagement with 12 percent, consumer goods and information technologywith 7 percent, financial and banking sector with 5 percent.
The highest monthly salary of 195 million VND in the period wasoffered by a firm in HCM City for a chief executive officer (CEO) and118 million VND for the same position in Hanoi.
Navigos Search projected demand for smartphone engineers will rise tomore than 20 percent of total employment demand in the coming time andproportions for the production, consumer goods and finance-bankingsectors will remain high.-VNA
The provider of executive recruitmentservices explained that many major smartphone producers have chosenVietnam as their key manufacturing base and hiring Vietnamese engineerswould help them reduce production costs, The Saigon Times reported.
However, many electronics companies have found find it hard to recruitqualified candidates, according to a report released by Navigos Searchearly this week.
A local human resource specialistsaid smartphone production is still in the nascent stages of developmentin Vietnam, so there are not many candidates able to meet requirementsof foreign employers, including English competence, communication,problem solving, creativeness and other soft skills.
The apparel sector ranked second with a recruitment demand ratio of 13percent in the first three months of this year, followed by productionmanagement with 12 percent, consumer goods and information technologywith 7 percent, financial and banking sector with 5 percent.
The highest monthly salary of 195 million VND in the period wasoffered by a firm in HCM City for a chief executive officer (CEO) and118 million VND for the same position in Hanoi.
Navigos Search projected demand for smartphone engineers will rise tomore than 20 percent of total employment demand in the coming time andproportions for the production, consumer goods and finance-bankingsectors will remain high.-VNA
