Besides Japan and South Korea, many countries in Europe and the Middle East have shown interests in hiring Vietnamese workers. A training course Vietnam sent 421,860 workers abroad last year, 30% higher than the set goal and 7% higher than 2017's. Up to 68,737 workers were sent to Japan, 60,369 workers went to Taiwan, 6,538 went to South Korea and 1,920 went to Rumania. The rest went to Malaysia, Algeria, Kuwait, Macao and Singapore. The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs had implemented several measures to improve vocational skills and foreign languages to make workers more competitive. They also carried out spot inspection at labour companies and collected VND430m (USD18,500) in fines. According to the Overseas Labour Management Department, many big markets including Taiwan, Japan and South Korea still have high demand for Vietnamese workers. Several markets in the EU such as Bulgaria and Rumania have also shown positive signs. Demands for foreign workers in Japan … [Read more...] about Job opportunities for Vietnamese abroad
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Many job opportunities for Vietnamese workers in Lebanon
Vietnam's Consulate in Lebanon has become a familiar place for the Vietnamese community there for the past six years. "The Mohamad office, which is also the office of Vietnam's Consulate in Beirut, Lebanon, is responsible for helping to solve problems that Vietnamese workers have, although the number of Vietnamese workers there are not many," said Mr. Chady Joseph Issa. "We help them work stably or look for better new job opportunities in Lebanon, because the Vietnamese Embassy is not located here," he said. "We also assisted a number of Vietnamese citizens evacuating from Syria to Lebanon to return to Vietnam safely when Syria was at war. We also coordinated with some other Southeast Asian Embassies here to help them evacuate," he emphasized. According to him, Vietnamese workers there are very hardworking, active and intelligent, as well as strictly obeying Lebanon's law and policy. Compared with many countries, the number of Vietnamese workers working there is very small. In the … [Read more...] about Many job opportunities for Vietnamese workers in Lebanon
Enhance job opportunities for people with disabilities DTiNews
Vietnam has lost 3 percent of its GDP as the result of the involuntary exclusion of persons with disabilities from the labour market. Jobs seem to be too big a dream to achieve Ngo Thi Kim Oanh no longer believes in luck and has given up her job hunt after four years of trying in vain. Despite her education background, the 38-year-old – who suffers from some physical disability because of cerebral palsy – cannot stand the discriminating look from employers. After graduating from the Hanoi Foreign Languages University and struggling to find jobs for several years, Ms Oanh was recruited by some foreign non-profit organizations on short-term contracts to help other people with disabilities but those projects ended in 2008, leaving her with no job prospects again. For Ms Oanh and the more than 15 percent of Viet Nam’s population, living with disability, jobs seem to be too big a dream to achieve although they are still able to work. According to the International Labour … [Read more...] about Enhance job opportunities for people with disabilities DTiNews
Opportunities for Phu Yen workers
In the past time, provincial workers have obtained lots of opportunities of working at enterprises both in and outside the province. Besides, overseas labor market has attracted considerable attention from many people. From the attraction of working environment to the satisfactory income, the desire to grasp job opportunities, training industrial working style, experiencing and accumulating for the future, this year, young workers in Phu Yen province are heading towards the potential labor markets, including Japan… To meet the demand of overseas labor market, currently the centers of job services, introducing jobs in the province are recruiting a large number of workers for export in such traditional markets as Malaysia, Taiwan and new markets namely Korea, Japan. As to the latest news of the recruiting units in Phu Yen, Taiwanese labor market is having a demand of recruiting 300 workers at factories, firms and crews working near the shore, laborers working in the sectors … [Read more...] about Opportunities for Phu Yen workers
Vietnam: Big opportunity for Overseas Vietnamese to work
Meetings with some people who are going back to Vietnam as a place to do business or develop their own career shows some similarities. The first similarity is that the majority left Vietnam when they were teenagers. Vietnam is not a completely unfamiliar place to them, so when it has appropriate opportunities, a return will be considered. Andy Pham, an architect working for a construction company in Binh Duong province, explained why he chose Vietnam to work: "In late 2007, I returned Vietnam for relaxation and I recognized that Vietnam had changed a lot. Construction projects appear everywhere. While in America, my work was at a standstill. It made me think about changing my working environment". Nguyen Xuan Trinh, a lawyer cum businessman also returned to Vietnam for reasons akin to Andy. He said: "Instead of investing in America, I invest in Vietnam. If I get small success, I will also create jobs for some people. If I achieve big success, I will create jobs for many people and I … [Read more...] about Vietnam: Big opportunity for Overseas Vietnamese to work