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HCM City needs 27,000 labourers in May

Ho Chi Minh City has more than 27,000 job vacancies in May, according to Tran Anh Tuan, Vice Director of the municipal Centre of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information.
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HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City has more than 27,000 jobvacancies in May, according to Tran Anh Tuan, Vice Director of the municipalCentre of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information.

Of the total, 19.93 percent are in sale sector, while 15.09 percent arein the service sector, and 18.94 percent in the garment-textile and footwearindustry. The rest are jobs related to transportation, storage, mechanics andimport-export.

Tuan said that to satisfy the demand, the Ho Chi Minh City EmploymentService Centre will organise a second mobile job fair in District 4, whichexpects to draw 25 enterprises who will recruit 1,000 labourers.

Meanwhile, more than 4,800 labourers of the central province of ThuaThien Hue found jobs in the first quarter of 2018, equivalent to 30.46 percentof the area’s yearly target. Of the total, 168 local labourers were sentabroad, mostly to Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China).

According to the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs, in April, an event was held to recruit labourers for vocationaltraining courses under the province’s manpower contracts.

In the first quarter of this year, the province also recruited 3,016trainees for vocational training courses at different levels.-VNA
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