As we reported yesterday, many software businesses in Da Nang are facing a severe shortage of qualified information technology (IT) employees.  At the same time, many new IT graduates from the city’s universities and colleges are not meeting the requirements of their potential recruiters. 

Some representatives from local software businesses stressed their need for high-quality IT human resources to further the development of the local IT industry.

Students at the Viet Nam-South Korea Friendship IT Junior College

The Director of the FPT Software Da Nang company (Fsoft Da Nang), Mr Nguyen Tuan Phuong, suggested that local IT universities and colleges should take the initiative and renew their teaching programmes to meet the demands of IT companies.  He said that, for example, some IT businesses show a keen interest in employing graduates with Japanese language proficiency.  Local universities and colleges should therefore encourage their students to study the Japanese language to make it easier to find jobs after graduation.

Dr Hoang Bao Hung, Principal of the Viet Nam-South Korea Friendship IT Junior College, stressed the need for IT training institutes, IT businesses, and students to jointly cooperate in order to bring mutual benefits. 

The Director of the Da Nang-based iViettech Training and Technology company, Mr Vy Van Viet, proposed that local IT universities and colleges should teach their IT-related subjects entirely in English, and invite IT engineers from reputable domestic IT companies to teach their students.  This will help the students to become more familiar with their future professional working environment. 

In addition to the academic curricula they receive, students should be given the opportunity to attend many intensive training courses.  Some of the city’s large IT businesses, such as FSoft and Axon Active, have training centres in their companies to help their trainees experience their future high-pressure working environment.  Meanwhile, other companies are opening IT training centres at local universities and colleges to provide students with the opportunity to study and work in the English language. 

Mr Vo Duc Toan, Director of the city’s Microsoft Centre, said “My centre is providing free-of-charge training courses for IT final year students in Da Nang.  They will be taught about soft skills, and given new technological knowledge.  This will help local IT graduates satisfy the recruitment requirements of IT businesses after graduation, and especially help my company to recruit qualified employees”.