Staff at MBT Electrical Equipment JSC (Photo: VNA)Le Lam, Deputy General Director of the MBT Electrical Equipment JSC in Hanoi's DanPhuong district, said his company faced many difficulties in the past two yearsdue to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and disruption of the global supplychain, resulting in sharp declines in orders and revenue.
The company, which specialises in manufacturing transformers and medium-voltagecabinets, had been coping with dependence on imported raw materials as thequality of domestic products has failed to meet demand. Lam said his firm hadalso encountered difficulties in recruiting human resources to meet therequirements of its factory.
“We seek intermediate-level welding workers all year round, but could onlyrecruit a few," Lam told Viet Nam News.
Although the market was facing difficulties, in the future, if exportsincreased, his firm would need abundant human resources. Therefore, Lamsuggested the authorities draw up effective training policies for supportingindustries.
Nguyen Hong Phong, Managing Director of the An Mi Tools Co in the capital cityagreed. He said his company which is involved in manufacturing high-precisionproducts and mechanical components for enterprises in automobiles, motorcycles,aviation, space and moulds needed to recruit workers in the cutting andprocessing industries throughout the year.
However, personnel recruitment had caused his firm headaches because it wasdifficult for the local workforce to meet the recruitment demand of hiscompany.
"Currently, we need to recruit between 30 and 50 new employees annually.But we can only meet about 30-40% of our goal," Phong told Viet Nam News.
Furthermore, businesses had to spend a lot of time retraining recruited workersfrom the concept of operations in production to expertise as most of themlacked the necessary skills, he said.
“This is costly and time-consuming as it takes six months for workers to mastertheir work, one year to have related skills and experience and they can be ableto work independently only after two years,” he said.
Meanwhile, his firm has failed to collaborate continuously with educationalfacilities to train students or recruited workers.
According to Pham Xuan Khanh, Rector of the College of High Technology (HHT),HHT has established relationships with large enterprises in Vietnam and in theworld and they are willing to cooperate with HHT to build the training centres.
At these centres, businesses will invest in facilities and equipment, and bringgood experts who can team up with HHT from developing and organising trainingprogrammes to assessing students. Businesses will later use this workforce fortheir business and production activities.
However, there are no specific guidelines governing businesses' investments inschool facilities and the coordination between schools and businesses to buildcentres which specialise in training, research, production, andcommercialisation of products, Khanh said.
Khanh said he hoped Hanoi's authorities and the Ministry of Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs would soon remove these difficulties so that enterpriseswould be offered more favourable conditions in investing in the training area.
Sharing Khanh's opinion, Nguyen Van, Standing Vice Chairman of the Hanoi SupportingIndustries Business Association (HANSIBA), said it was very important to removebottlenecks in institutions and policies governing cooperation betweenbusinesses and universities, colleges and vocational training institutions.This would help facilitate cooperation between firms in supporting industriesand educational institutions and the ultimate beneficiaries are students.
In the past, HANSIBA organised short-term training courses, bringing affiliatesto visit training facilities. Through specific connection activities, HANSIBAhad listened to both sides - schools and enterprises - thereby buildingconnection programmes to meet demand and supply labour for each other.
This would be the shortest way in meeting the supply-demand of human resourcesfor the supporting industries in the short term as well as in the long term, Vansaid.
To ensure the quality of human resources served for supporting industries, Vanemphasised the importance of setting up technical standards on occupationalskills according to international standards and focusing on training methodsand certification systems so that Vietnamese labourers can work in regional andinternational markets.
Well-structured training plans and roadmaps for personnel resources served forsupporting industries should be also included, he said./.
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