The private business sector is considered as spearhead for bolstering the country’s socio-economic development.  In Da Nang, many primate businesses are focusing on developing human resources in the current context of globalisation.

An IT training course at the iViettech Training and Technology company

After 10 years of operation, the Toan Cau Xanh company (Green Global) is now one of Da Nang’s few businesses participating in many big projects in the world’s IT hubs, including the USA, the Netherlands and Japan.

The company’s CEO, Mr Le Tri Hai, remarked that high quality human resources play a vital role in enhancing the quality of any company’s products, and promoting its ccompetitiveness, as well as determining its long-term development strategies.

Over recent years, Green Global has employed numerous talented graduates from prestigious local universities and junior colleges meeting its recruitment requirements, and then offered many training courses for their new recruits in a bid to enhance their professional skills for the sake of the company’s progress.

Apart from rolling out red carpet for qualified domestic employees, Green Global has recruited some highly skilled foreigners who hail from the USA and the Netherlands.   To date, 2 American employees have worked for a representative office of this company in the USA which is currently one of the company's largest foreign consumer markets.

The city now has an abundant labour force, but many IT businesses operating in the city are facing a severe shortage of employees who possess the high professional skills, creative thinking and a high level of proficiency in English.

Employees at a local IT company

According to the city-based iViettech Training and Technology company specialising in training IT employees, the annual number of IT graduates from local educational establishments have yet to meet the total demand in the city. 

Since the start of this year, about 200 out of the city’s total 700 IT companies have had job adverts posted in the Internet for such positions as software testers, developers and managers. 

The Director of the Ha Giang-Phuoc Tuong Mechanical Engineering Company, Mr Ha Duc Hung, said that his company finds it very difficult to recruit qualified mechanical engineers and highly-skilled mechanics. 

Mr Hung added that, in reality, many new IT graduates from local universities and junior colleges are not meeting the strict requirements of their potential recruiters.  Therefore, many businesses like Ha Giang-Phuoc Tuong always have to offer intensive training courses of up to 3 months to their new recruits.

Due to the serious lack of IT employees, many software businesses are attracting qualified IT engineers from other companies by offering more attractive salaries.  The city is now home to a total of 12,000 programmers, about 3,000 of whom earn a monthly income of over 1,000 USD each.

In February this year, the municipal government gave the green-light to the implementation of a project for developing high-quality human resources for the local private business sector by 2020. 

Under the project, focus has been paid to enhancing the professional skills for managerial staff of local businesses through their effective training courses.

Many businesspeople underscored the need for educational establishments to facilitate their students to access practical field trips to local businesses, in addition to providing them with advanced training programmes, in order to help them clearly understand their future careers.