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Jobseekers at an employment fair in HCM City's Tan Binh District last week. — VNA/VNS Photo Phuong Vy |
Nguyen Thi Hai Van, deputy head of the Labour and Employment Agency under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), said at a conference held in Ha Noi last week that the exchanges met just 10-15 per cent of existing employment demand in the country.
"This has led to the situation that Industrial Zones and Export Processing Zones are suffering constant shortage of workers while unemployment in large cities, which account for more than five per cent of the labour force, is still high," Van said.
Job transaction floors were established as an upgrade of jobs fairs in 2006, with each one receiving average funding of VND5-7 billion (US$260,000-364,000) from the State budget, according to statistics released by the Labour Ministry.
The exchanges are present in almost all provinces and cities across the country, with 44 of them holding one to three sessions per month. Each session receives funding of VND200 million (US$10,400).
However, thus far, just 14 per cent of job seekers and 16.4 per cent of employers have joined the exchange, the ministry estimates.
Huynh Ngoc Long, director of the Employment Service Centre in Dong Nai Province, said most enterprises in the province operating in the wood processing, garment and textiles, electronics and footwear industries had a large demand for unskilled labour.
Twenty one industrial parks operating in the province needed to recruit 50,000 labourers a year, but they could only hire 4,500-5,000 through the employment exchanges, he said.
Enterprises participating in a job fair held in the province on September 5 offered 5,000 vacancies, but managed to recruit only a few hundred workers, Long said.
Only 1,000 job seekers attended the 19th employment fair held in April in Binh Duong Province, where more than 300 enterprises registered to recruit more than 20,500 workers, provincial reports said.
The Employment Service Centre in Ha Noi held 56 job fairs between 2007 and mid 2010, attracting the participation of more than 4,800 enterprises and nearly 150,800 visitors, said Vu Trung Chinh, the centre's director.
However, these events only met 20 per cent of enterprises' labour demand, with each one receiving an average of 1,874 applications, he added.
Low salaries and tough working conditions without other benefits were main reasons for workers not opting to accept employment with the factories in big cities and industrial zones, experts have said.
Weaknesses in the analysis of labour market data, poor forecasting skills and a lack of qualified staff were severely limiting the effectiveness of employment exchanges, Van said. — VNS
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