Many labour exporting countries are facing difficulties finding applicants for the trainee programmes in Japan.
Vietnamese trainees attending a course before flying to Japan
Director of Esuhai Company, Le Long Son, said that they have just resumed the sending of Vietnamese trainees to Japan after two years suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
"About 1,400 people who were ready to fly to Japan for these programmes have been unable to go due to the pandemic over the past two years," Son said. "After receiving many orders from Japanese partners again, we have recently contacted those people and conducted interviews with 600 others for the coming programmes. However, many of them have cancelled their plans for Japan to take other jobs during the long waiting period."
Son expressed worries that Japanese partners would turn to other markets if his company could not send enough applicants at this time.
Sharing the same worries, director of Dung Giang Company, Nguyen Manh Ha, also said that they were facing challenges in finding people for the trainee programmes with Japanese partners.
"Many people have left the programmes after having to wait for too long last year," Ha explained. "Our Japanese partners want to have trainees for various careers including nursing, food processing, and engineering but it has become difficult for us to attract applicants."
Ha added that it would take eight months of training for people who want to do nursing work in Japan. After this training, they will be introduced to sign a contract with a Japanese company and can earn VND50 million monthly from the third year working in the country.
Japan resumed the reception of Vietnamese workers from last November after a long suspension due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2020, Vietnam sent nearly 83,000 workers to Japan, accounting for more than half of the total workers Vietnam sent abroad. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, over 5,000 workers had to return to Vietnam within the first six months of that year.
