The quality of Vietnamese labor is still limited

Imbalance between supply and demand labour local

Speaking at the conference on implementing field tasks < a data-auto-link-id=”5fe01a99b00b7a0012bca1a3″ data-content-name=”article-content-autolink” data-content-piece=”article-content-autolink_5fe01a99b00b7a0012bca1a3″ data-content-target=”https://dantri .com.vn/lao-dong-viec-lam/viec-lam.htm” data-track-content=”” href=”https://dantri.com.vn/lao-dong-viec-lam/viec- lam.htm”>jobs in 2023, the leader of the Department of Employment of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs commented that the labor market in 2022 has recovered strongly after the Covid-19 epidemic.</p >

Compared to the same period in 2021, the labor force increased quite rapidly (workers aged 15 and older reached 51.7 million people increased by 11 million people). The number of employed workers also increased again along with the economic recovery trend (employed workers aged 15 and over were 50.6 million people, an increase of 1.5 million people).

In addition, Many other indicators also develop in a positive direction such as: the rate of workers with informal jobs in 2022 will decrease in both urban and rural areas; Workers’ income improved; The number and rate of unemployment and underemployment have both decreased…

However, the leaders of the Department of Employment also admitted that although the Vietnamese labor market is recovering and developing, it still reveals many problems. Mentions of shortcomings and limitations.

Most prominent is the issue of the quality of the labor supply, which has not met the needs of a modern, flexible, sustainable and integrated labor market. The proof is that the number of workers with high vocational skills is still low (by 2022, the rate of workers with certificates will only reach 26.2%), which cannot meet the development requirements of the market.

Limited vocational skills make it difficult for workers to have sustainable jobs and move flexibly in a constantly changing labor market.

This leads to competitiveness The national competitiveness is still low and cannot take full advantage of the opportunities of the golden population period to attract FDI investment resources.

Another major problem mentioned by the Department of Employment is the phenomenon of local and local imbalance in labor supply and demand. Uneven development between regions and economic sectors. This is the cause of the situation in some places enterprises look for people but can’t find them, but instead cut workers.

According to the leaders of the Department of Employment, there is currently a mechanism to connect supply and demand and automatically The balance of the market is still weak, the main reason is that the information system in the labor market has not been fully developed.

As one of the provinces implementing the Center’s operational autonomy mechanism Job introduction in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province is also facing many difficulties. Ms. Dinh Thi Truc My, Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said. The employment service center will be autonomous from July 1, 2022 but is currently facing difficulties. Hopefully the Ministry will soon have specific guidance documents.

Information about connecting labor supply and demand in the locality, Mr. Trinh Minh Hung, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Tra Vinh province said: “There are not many businesses in Tra Vinh, but they do a good job of supply and demand for labor, so they can supply many exported workers and introduce many good jobs. Thanks to Tra Vinh’s good support policies for exported workers, we can loan of 150 million VND and the provincial budget allocated this year is 50 billion VND to support loans to create jobs.”

Supporting localities to develop the labor market< /strong>

Recognize the existence of an imbalance in the market that leads to ineffective exploitation of human resources. The Department of Employment has researched and identified many limitations in connecting labor supply and demand by the management agency such as: not collecting market information in a timely manner; Few job transaction activities connecting supply and demand; Employment service organizations operate inconsistently and are not highly professional; Market information is lacking and fragmented…

In 2022, the labor industry has implemented many solutions to overcome this weakness. The conference on developing a flexible, modern, sustainable and integrated labor market was organized to raise awareness and unify solutions to develop the labor market from central to local levels. The Government issued Resolution No. 06/NQ-CP dated January 10, 2023 to orient the development of a modern, flexible, efficient, sustainable and integrated labor market for rapid socio-economic recovery.</ p>

The Department of Employment also promotes activities to guide localities in implementing solutions to support the recovery and development of the labor market. In particular, strong attention is paid to implementing solutions to integrate the market to connect labor supply and demand.

In 2022, the National Center for Employment Services (under the Department of Employment) will deploy many activities to support connection and orient activities for employment service centers in provinces/cities.

The center strongly deploys activities to upgrade information technology infrastructure and equipment to modernize labor market information system to form an online job exchange and build unified labor databases nationwide.

From there, the center has built a basic system Job seeker database – finding people to serve job transactions, analyzing labor market forecasts, connecting labor supply and demand between localities, supporting localities in organizing online job exchanges line…

At the conference to deploy the implementation of tasks in the field of employment in 2023, the leaders of the Department of Employment also requested the Departments of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of the provinces/cities to direct and create conditions for the Service Center to affiliated employment actively carries out the task of connecting with employment service centers nationwide to develop the labor market.

Through the recommendations and discussions of the delegates Mr. Vu Trong Binh, Director of the Department of Employment, assigned the National Center for Employment Services to review and synthesize the problems of employment service centers that have implemented financial autonomy and report to the Department for solutions.

Mr. Binh also requested the Departments of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and Employment Service Centers of the localities to advise the Provincial People’s Committee to approve the construction of an investment project to develop the center in all aspects, especially in terms of facilities. infrastructure and equipment.