The ASEAN Car Business Career Company of Japan plans to recruit more than 220 automobile engineering students from the Da Nang-based Dong A University to work in the Japanese car industry later this year.

An engineer works at the Nissan automobile plant in Da Nang. Japan is seeking manpower from central Việt Nam to work in the Japanese market. — VNS Photo Cong Thanh

The company made the announcement after signing an agreement on human resource training and recruitment last week, saying that it would offer 6-month internships for 500 final-year students at automobile manufacturing companies in Japan.

Previously, three Japanese companies, including the Japan Material Engineering Services Company, Auto Avenue, and Sakura service company had also agreed to bring 200 students from the college to work in electronics, engineering, controls and automation for the Japanese labour market.

Employment service companies from Germany, Japan and Singapore together have agreed to employ 3,000 graduates from the college to work in hospitality, nursing, and construction industries.

More than 100 graduates from the university have been working in nursing centres and hospitality in Japan since 2016.

The Dong A University is the only educational establishments in Central Viet Nam providing human resources for the Japanese labour market.

Last year, the university, in cooperation with the Viet Nam Automobile Manufacturing Association (VAMA), began the first ever course on automobile technology and automation engineering in the central region.

In 2016, the Da Nang-based FPT Software company started its 10,000-Bridge Software Engineer (BrSE) programme in order to boost its presence in the Japanese market by 2020.

According to FPT Software, 23.3% of Japanese businesses choose Viet Nam as the second outsourced service provider in the world.

Japan needs 60,000 information technology engineers by 2020, of which 10,000 will come from Viet Nam and India.

(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)