Just-announced Binh Duong Job Exchange has become an online channel helping job seekers with effective and simple ways of information searching.

 

Job creation has become an urgent and demanding task not only in the cause of national industrialization and modernization but also in general developmental perspectives of socio-economics and human strategies. As a result, Binh Duong Job Exchange will contribute to more transparent labor market where employers and employees meet.

 

In Binh Duong Province, enterprises annually need about 40,000 to 50,000 laborers in all fields. The non-stop increasing demands create scarcity of labor in almost every field, especially by the end of 2009 when business and production pick up. To satisfy the demands, Binh Duong launched strategies attracting laborers including the exchange of job boards.

  

Job seekers register for job boards.

 

Annually, about 40,000 jobs are created for demands of over 50,000 employees through introduction and promotion. Binh Duong Province’s labor market is pushing to be imbalanced and Binh Duong Job Exchange was set up to get back to the balance by offering up to 15.4% of employees of all qualification levels to enterprises.

“Enterprises and job seekers consider Binh Duong Job Introduction Center and websites of www.binhduongworks.com and www.vieclambinhduong.vn as connecting bridges for employment information and labor policies in the market. By such bridges, the center will organize employment training seminars to meet the initial and long-term demands,” evaluated Director Dang Thi Ngoc Thien Huong of Binh Duong Job Introduction Center.

 

She also admitted that the center’s facilities are relatively limited to makeshift kiosks only while enterprises only make their surveys to note down positions they need to recruit without any official decision. Therefore, job seekers are under pressure and keep searching for other jobs in other enterprises. Meantime, employment demands in foreign enterprises are high but job seekers fail to meet requirement of skillful and experienced employees. On the other hand, those enterprises prefer experienced and trained workers than to-be-trained employees. This may result in higher risks for newly graduates, who may eventually work in the fields they are not intended for, in finding jobs.

Scarcity of manual labor in fields of textile, woodwork, electronics, etc. is greater and greater while averagely 1,000 to 2,000 manual laborers are introduced with jobs per session. For higher qualified job seekers, soft skills are great barriers that cause enterprises to refuse job applications. Notwithstanding, information is limited among vocational schools, colleges and universities. So, what would be measures for effective job fairs?

 

Director Dang Thi Ngoc Thien Huong suggested that more investment should be made to create job exchange locations as well as spaces for direct interview. Besides, enterprises should offer direct interviews and online investigation of real labor skills to select candidates without second interviews. She also called for cooperation with vocational schools, colleges and university to promote enterprises in recruiting newly graduates. Enterprises, then, could give feed backs to training institutions for methodology reforms.

Reported Van Son – Translated by Vi Bao