From now till 2020, Binh Duong needs 40,000-50,000 laborers per year, 70% of whom are skilled laborers. Implementing this goal, many incentive policies including strategy of human resources attraction in Binh Duong is set out.
Students of vocational training schools at the provincial skill contest.
In reality, Binh Duong has over the past years set out many measures of labor attraction from other provinces and cities. Specifically, Binh Duong in 2006 implemented a triangle model between enterprises, job centers and recruiters to lure human resources. Until now, more than 30 provinces and cities cooperating with Binh Duong carry out this model. The model of labor linkage contributes to attract labor source in general and high quality manpower. As a result, from 2007 to 2013, provinces of Kien Giang, Soc Trang, Dong Thap, Phu Yen, Tra Vinh, Bac Lieu, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Cao Bang, Tuyen Quang, Ha Giang, Quang Tri and more took more than 32,000 laborers to Binh Duong for work.
In the past month alone, the provincial Job Center linking with provinces of An Giang, Soc Trang, Dong Thap, Tra Vinh took 1,445 workers to work at local companies such as Panko Vian Co.Ltd., Kondo Vietnam Garment Co.Ltd and more. This is considered as “distinctive” way of Binh Duong province to attract alien human resources.
Along with human resources development, Binh Duong always focuses on vocational training to offer high quality workforce for labor market. Binh Duong now has 62 vocational facilities including 5 vocational colleges, 8 vocational intermediate schools, 1 professional intermediate school, 12 vocational centers and 35 other vocational facilities.
Notably, over the past years local vocational schools, centers and facilities, especially public vocational schools attract numerous students. Some student said that vocational schools and centers in the recent years focus on investing in teaching aids, contributing to train human resources for the Southern key economic zone.
However, some enterprises in Binh Duong face shortage of skilled workforce. Experts said that enterprises can not find out local people with experiences and skills to meet the set requirements. However, local investors said that Binh Duong enjoys advantages of young manpower and cheap labor price but these advantages are suitable to sectors in need of many laborers. Meanwhile, hi-tech sectors require other elements.
Manpower development is a breakthrough task of Binh Duong administration. Nguyen Phung Trung, vice director of the provincial department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs said that Binh Duong needs a strategy focusing on both scale and quality to reach all the set goals of high quality manpower development. Therefore, the essential measure is to improve awareness on significance and importance of human resources in the industrialization and modernization in parallel with detailed program building of manpower development for every sector and locality.
Reported by T.VY – Translated by A.C
