VietNamNet Bridge – Representatives of a lot of enterprises were present at the job day to look for labourers. However, most left empty-handed.
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Goshi-Thang Long, a motorbike part producer, went to the job centre looking for 500 manual labourers, aged between 18 and 40, offering the initial salary of 1.3 million dong ($76.47) per month. Besides the monthly pay, the company also offered attractive allowances, including lunch allowance (10,000 dong per day), diligence support (200,000 dong per month). Labourers of the company can expect to get a pay raise once a year and bonuses three times a year.
However, the company had only recruited eight labourers by the end of the day. Meanwhile, Pham Thi Ha from the personnel department noted that the company just got eight applications — this does not mean that all returned for interviews.
Sudico needed 50 security officers, while setting very simple requirements for the post. Candidates just needed to finish high school and have good health to be able to apply. After becoming a staff of the company, security officers get the initial salary of 1.7 million dong ($100). The sum of money ought to be attractive to manual labourers who do not have any special skills. However, very few young people were interested in the job.
According to Vu Thi Thanh, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Job Centre, the centre has just been able to recruit four percent of total demand for manual labourers this year.
According to the Dong Nai Job Centre, it has organised eight job transaction sessions so far this year. 129 enterprises attended the sessions, where they sought 12,369 labourers, 85% being blue-collar workers. The sessions attracted 14,000 visitors, but only 2,344 applications were submitted.
Nguyen Quang, Human Resources Director of Binh Duong-based Scancom, related that he has been to 11 provinces in the west of the southern region but he still cannot recruit enough labourers.
. . . because of unattractive pay
Tran Thi Le Thu from Thanh Hoa province in the central region related that she has been in
When asked about the salary she expects, Thu said that 1.3-1.5 million dong would be enough to cover the expenses for a life in the countryside. However, the sum of money would not be enough for her to live in
“I hope I can find a good job, though it is hard, with higher pay, which is enough to feed myself,” she said.
Duc, a young man from district 9 in
Tran Ngoc Oanh, who Tien phong newspaper’s reporters met at the job day in Hanoi, related that her studies at junior college cost her 100 million dong, while companies are offering 1.5 million dong a month only, which means that she would not be able to pay off her school expenses for five years if she ate nothing and didn’t have to pay rent.
In Dong Nai, while the demand for manual workers has been big, the visitors at the sessions have been mainly graduates of technical secondary schools, junior colleges or universities.
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