Students learn mechanics at Bach Dang Job Training Centre in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Experts have predicted the labourmarket will improve in the near future based on a series of upbeat signals.
According to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and SocialAffairs, between 70,000 and 80,000 workers who had previously losttheir jobs will rejoin the workforce every month from May.
Statistics from the Hanoi Centre for Employment Services(HCES) showed that from February to April this year, 1,945 firms registered torecruit for 13,562 positions. Most of the jobs offered were in production, mechanical engineering, manufacturing and garment making.
Ta Van Thao, director of the centre, said the demand for new workers is mostly coming from small- and medium-sized enterprises.
He added that once the COVID-19 pandemic is under control itwill lead to a more positive economic outlook and increased demand in the labourmarket.
Vietnamworks, a popular website for online human resourcesand recruiting services in Vietnam, has carried out a post-COVID-19-social-distancingsurvey of 400 companies and 3,400 job seekers. Accordingly, up to 25 percent offirms questioned said they would soon restart their recruitment efforts and 14percent said they had already resumed.
Vietnamworks said despite a 20-percent growth in the numberof jobs offered in the first week of May, a supply-demand balance is yet to beachieved thus competition is higher than ever.
Vietnam has gone 34 straight days without any new COVID-19infection cases in the community, according to the National Steering Committeefor COVID-19 Prevention and Control. As of May 20 morning, the total infectionsin the country remained at 324, including 184 imported cases that werequarantined upon their arrival. More than 80 percent of the patients haverecovered, and zero deaths have been reported, said the committee’s treatment subcommittee./.
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