Occupations relating to information technology, high-tech and supporting industries are employment groups with high recruitment demand, experts have said.

Occupations relating to information technology, high-tech and supporting industries are employment groups with high recruitment demand, experts have said.

About 150,000 new jobs will be created in the second quarter of this year, including 28,200 in electronics and optical device manufacturing, 18,600 in food processing, and 4,700 in beverage production, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) predicted.

VOV.VN - Recruitment demand in Ho Chi Minh City is forecast to continue to increase in the coming months with roughly 320,000 additional workers needed, according to Dr. Do Thanh Van, deputy director of the city’s Resources Forecast and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Centre.

Vietnam’s labour market continued to maintain recovery momentum in the first quarter of 2023, Deputy Director General of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Trung Tien said at a press conference in Hanoi on April 6.

Vietnam is heading toward green growth with various industries involved, generating great demand for green jobs and green skills in the labour market, according to the recruitment, staffing and outsourcing company ManpowerGroup Vietnam.

Vietnam’s labour market has improved, sending goods news to workers being laid off in the final quarter of last year due to a shortfall of new orders faced by their companies, The Saigon Times reported.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese firms are enduing a shortage of export orders and are therefore trying to retain employees in the initial months of the new year, a period which is usually considered the off-peak production season.

VOV.VN - Labour export has recovered strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly 143,000 workers sent abroad to work in 2022, more than 3 times the figure recorded in 2021.

VOV.VN - Recent volatility occurring in the global economy has dealt a heavy blow to Vietnamese businesses, especially those operating in the wood, textile and footwear manufacturing industries, forcing them to lay off tens of thousands of employees.