VNExpress-June 27
Companies in Vietnam continue to face difficulties in recruiting both white and blue collar workers to fuel their post-Covid recovery operations. Normally, January-June period is the peak season for IT sector recruitment and job hopping is rife. “The number of applicants was down by 50-60 percent for all positions. “Many candidates called for interviews, said they “no longer intended to change their jobs,” Vu Yen Phuong, Human Resources & General Affairs (HR&GA) leader of IT company Infoplus told VnExpress. Nguyen Khanh Linh, deputy HR manager of FPT Telecom, said the number of new applicants fell by 30 percent from last year despite efforts to expand recruitment channels. FPT Telecom, a subsidiary of IT giant FPT Corp, recruits up to a thousand new employees every year. “The quality of applicants has also declined,” Linh said, adding that firms now had to compete hard for candidates with the needed knowledge, skills and attitude. Tran Thi Tuyet Trinh, HR manager of Aeon Vietnam, said the supermarket chain was finding it harder to hire new cashiers as workers favored jobs with flexible working hours and equivalent income. Pham Quang Anh, director of Vietnam-based clothing manufacturer Dony, said workers were more eager to work seasonally and receive payment on a weekly basis since the beginning of this year. They are less loyal to their factories and always ready to hop jobs, which can wreck the manufacturing sector’s post-Covid recovery, he said. Current labor supply is unable to meet the post-Covid recovery demands of companies, the Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs has said. There was a shortage of 120,000 employees in the first quarter this year, or 10 percent of demand and 2-3 percentage points higher than that of previous years. Read more at:
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