60% of Hanoi Manpower Untrained

Up to 60% of manpower in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have not been trained, though the city has strived its best to improve quality of its workforce for years, said the municipal Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.

The city now ranks the second in population with over 6.4 million, following Ho Chi Minh City. However, local businesses often cry over shortage of skilled workers.

In fact, Hanoi is in redundancy of manual laborers, but in lack of trained ones, the department admitted.

In an effort to deal with the problem, the municipal authorities have approved a program to generate 705,000 jobs, including 23,000 abroad, for the 2011-15 period.

The new move focuses on labor-intensive sectors such as industries and services while calling for restructuring agriculture and rural economy into commercial production and developing crafts villages or crafts streets to provide massive jobs for rural workforce.

Vocational training is another focus of the scheme in an effort to meet an increasing demand for skilled workers.

Hanoi’s workforce is forecast to reach 4.67 million by 2015, or 90,000 new comers in each of the next five years. It targets to create 135,000 jobs this year.

Tags: Vietnam human resource, Vietnam labour