HCM City: 46,000 job vacancies available for third quarter

Ho Chi Minh City’s enterprises need around 46,000 workers, including 9,764 temporary ones, for the third quarter of 2015, according to the city's Centre for Human Resources Forecasting and Labour Market Information.

Ho Chi Minh City’s enterprises need around 46,000 workers, including 9,764 temporary ones, for the third quarter of 2015, according to the city's Centre for Human Resources Forecasting and Labour Market Information.

Job interview (Source: VNA)

According to Vice Director of the centre Tran Anh Tuan, the need for skilled workers and staff accounts for 62.4 percent of the total demand.

Around one quarter of the available jobs are in marketing-sale, while 17.35 percent are in the service sector, he said, adding that transport, import-export, IT, tourism-restaurant-hotel, and real estate sectors also have great demand.

Local businesses are paying attention to perfecting their staff in preparation for the accelerating integration process, particularly with the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community at the end of this year, according to the centre.