In recent years, many Vietnamese young people are making good preparations in terms of professional and soft skills to grasp job opportunities to work in Japan, and those from Da Nang is no exception. In reality, the Asian power’s labour shortage is opening doors to foreign immigrant workers, including those from Viet Nam.

Students from the Nursing Faculty of the Nursing Faculty at the Da Nang-based Phuong Dong Junior College attending an interview sessions for opportunities to join internships in Japan

Le Thi Ly Na, a first-year student from the Business Administration Faculty of the Da Nang-based Dong A University is currently joining a Japanese class at her school in a bid to realise her dream of finding a good job at “the land of the rising sun” in the near future.

She excitedly revealed the distinctive Japanese culture, and especially professional working style, really inspires her to seek a chance to work in this developed Asian country.

In recent times, the Dong A and Duy Tan universities along with other tertiary educational establishments have promoted their cooperation programmes to enable their graduates seek overseas jobs, especially highly-potential Japanese market.

According to Vice Rector of the Dong A University (DAU) Luong Minh Sam, during the ongoing 2019 - 2020 academic year, the university is expected to send up to 700 students to Japan for work and study, and from 2021, this figure will increase to at least 1,000.

The private university has already entered into an agreement on internship programmes with Japan’s Kameda Medical Centre. Under the agreement, Kameda will offer paid internships in Japan for 50 final year students from this university’s Nursery Faculty every April.

The students who have already reached the N4 level of Japanese will be sent to Kameda to practise their skills, and enhance their Japanese language skills for a year. After finishing their internships, the Da Nang students will return to their country to graduate with degrees from DAU.

Anyone who wants to work in Kameda can register for their 5-year internship programmes, and they will receive monthly salaries of around 1,700 USD each. During their 5-year stay in Japan, these Vietnamese students will continue improving their Japanese language skills to reach the N1 level of Japanese in order to work in Japan for a long term.

In reality, nursing is much favoured by such developed countries as Germany, and Japan. These countries faced the shortage of nurses, and orderlies while in Viet Nam, graduates in this sector were unemployed or paid modestly.

Taking advantage of this fact, the Da Nang-based Phuong Dong Junior College started enrolling students into the Nursing Faculty in 2007. To date, 11 academic courses have been offered to 9,252 trainees at the school.

In March 2016, the school started sending its qualified graduates to foreign countries for guest work. Currently, 8 nurses are working in Germany, whilst 20 in Japan, plus 35 others who are attending training courses in preparation for their guest in Japan.

The school received very positive feedback from the Japan-based recruiters on its interns’ good working spirit, attitude, and professional skills. Especifically, the Vietnamese labourers are usually highly praised for being healthy, hardworking, industrious, honest, eager to learn, and highly-skilled.

According to the city’s experts, the Japanese market is very attractive to young Vietnamese labourers. One of the most inviting factor is that Vietnamese students who are sent to Japan for internship and work programmes usually receive an average monthly earnings of 1.500 US$ each (equivalent to over 30 million VND).

Besides, Japanese businesses show off quite attractive support policies in terms of professional training, travel costs, and accommodation services for guest workers.