The Da Nang Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has worked with authorities at local level along with universities across the city to open job sessions for new graduates in a bid to help connect them with recruiters to find a suitable job.

Students and job seekers are looking for job opportunities at a job fair held at the Da Nang University of Technology and Education. Photo: NGOC HA

Their cooperation in organizing job fairs helps to promote effectiveness of the linkages between universities, businesses and local-level authorities.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Van Huy, the Vice Rector of the Da Nang University of Economics, highlighted the importance of the annual job fair in establishing the links between the school and businesses, as well as helping businesses create their recruitment plans that map out their future needs based on the number of annual graduates from the school.

According to Dr. Hoang Dung, the Vice Rector of the University of Technology and Education, the school not only focuses on providing trainning programmes for its students but also facilitate access for its students to the labour market in a bid to help them find a suitable job after graduation. In addition, special attention is paid to strengthening the links and boosting cooperation with recruiters in an effort to make changes to the school’s enrollment and training programs that are tailored to the needs of recruiters.

Mr Nguyen Thanh Nam, the Deputy Director of the Da Nang Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that the greatest goal of the job fair for new college graduates is to help them access employment services, provide them with essential job seeking skills, and offer them opportunities to approach recruiters. Furthermore, such a job fair will give businesses a chance to promote their image to new graduates, and hire the best possible candidates.

So far this year, the Da Nang Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in collaboration with universities across the city has organised 4 large-scale job sessions, one higher than planning for 2022. These events have been open to both in-person and online recruiters who together offered more than 5,000 job opportunities for each on average.

Moreover, the Department continues to hold regular job sessions on Fridays, and such a event take place simultaneously at 3 locations under the Da Nang Employment Service: one located in Phan Chau Trinh Street, Hai Chau District, the other in Au Co Street, Lien Chieu District, and the another one in Truong Chinh Street, Cam Le District instead of using only one of the alternate locations at a time for these events.

For the rest of the year, no mobile job fairs will be held in the city but periodical events will keep happening on Fridays. In addition, online job fairs will be held to connect job seekers in the city with recruiters in elsewhere in Central Viet Nam and Central Highlands. In the coming time, the Municipal Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs will continue to create the most favourable conditions for local job seekers to approach recruiters by opening more job sessions in both in-person and online forms.

Reporting by NGOC HA – Translating by H.L