Businesses in Da Nang are still struggling to recruit employees for sake of driving their post-pandemic production and business recovery.

Recruiters waiting for job seekers at the Da Nang Employment Service Centre. Photo: QUOC CUONG

In the first half of the year, the Da Nang Employment Service Centre under the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs held 23 job sessions, including one mobile session in Cam Le District.

At the centre, a total of 631 city-based businesses registered to recruit 18,689 employees, whilst the number of job seekers was 1,769. Compared to the time before COVID-19, there was a significant increase in recruitment demand, but the number of job seekers was low.

The recruitment demand was mainly in the manufacturing and processing industries, accounting for 48%, accommodation and food services 12%, and wholesale and retail 10%.

Meanwhile, the rate of job seekers in the processing and manufacturing industry was 29%, wholesale and retail 21%, and accommodation and food services 12%.

Currently, the majority of job seekers want to find jobs without time constraints. In particular, they tend to choose freelance jobs such as online sales and delivery. One of the most popular reasons why recruiters and job seekers did not find a common voice is the different requirements in salary and nature of work.

A 35-year-old man who is working as a delivery person said that his wife is working in the Hoa Khanh Industrial Park and often works overtime. Therefore, all housework is done by him, so the delivery job allows him to work flexible hours to pick up and take care of his children after school.

After the pandemic has been brought under control, construction works in the city have been back to a full swing, leading to a shortage of workers in many businesses.

Although he has participated in many job sessions at the centre, Mr. Nguyen Le Dung, an administrative officer of the Conda Investment and Construction JSC, has not been able to recruit workers.

Some recruiters said that currently, many job seekers own high-level academic qualifications, but their ability to apply theory in practice has not yet met the requirements set by enterprises.

To partially solve that problem, enterprises are willing to train their newly-recruited employees. However, despite the lack of experience, newcomers require a salary equivalent to skilled employees. This has become a barrier between employers and employees.

Deputy Director of the Da Nang Employment Service Centre Nguyen Thanh Diep emphasised that in order to improve the role of connection between recruiters and job seekers, the centre has focused on calling for more businesses to register for recruitment at the centre, and surveying the job seeking needs of locals, as well as improving the frequency and quality of job sessions, especially online job sessions connecting with central regional localities to attract human resources to work in Da Nang.

In addition, the centre will also coordinate with the district-level Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs departments to organise seminars on job introduction and vocational training, as well as coordinate with colleges and universities to organise mobile job sessions.

A job seeker is filling in the job application form at the Da Nang Employment Service Centre. Photo: QUOC CUONG

An online job session at the Da Nang Employment Service Centre located on Phan Chau Trinh Street. Photo: QUOC CUONG

Reporting by THU DUYEN, QUOC CUONG - Translating by M.DUNG