Hanoi (VNA) – As foreign-invested businesses always need high-quality humanresources to apply new technologies, training skilled manpower is believed tohelp Vietnam attract more foreign investment.

Do Duc Tri, Deputy GeneralDirector of Nhan Kiet Supplying Manpower Co. Ltd., said the number ofhigh-quality workers meeting foreign firms’ demand in Vietnam remains modest. Somesectors are facing manpower shortages such as information technology,semiconductor, electronics, and telecommunications.

In the finalmonths of 2023, the company received foreign businesses’ orders for thousandsof skilled workers, but was only able to meet 20-30% of the demand, he told the Lao dong (Labour) daily.

He blamedthat fact on Vietnamese workers’ lack of skills and work experience, notingthat to make up for the shortages of high-quality manpower, many foreigncompanies from the Republic of Korea, China, and Japan have brought workersfrom their countries to Vietnam, which is a big waste of opportunities for localworkers.

In 2023, therate of trained workers holding degrees and certificates reached 27-27.5%,according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs.

Nguyen Thi Doan, former StatePresident and President of the Vietnam Association of Promoting Education,noted the country’s human resources have yet to meet labour demand amid the currenttrend of digitalisation and modernisation. It is necessary to invest stronglyin training, especially vocational training, to improve quality.

Pham Thi ThuLan, Deputy Director of the Institute of Workers and Trade Unions, held that businessesshould cooperate closely with schools to upgrade training equipment andinfrastructure, invite experts, and design curricula matching their demand. Toattract workers to training courses, state agencies also need to devise more practicalsupport policies for them like increasing salary and covering trainingexpenses.

She said intensivetraining for workers will help Vietnam secure human resources meetingrequirements of the transition from labour-intensive industries to knowledge-and high technology-based sectors. It will enhance the country’s attractiveness toforeign businesses.

Nguyen Hong Dang, Deputy Director ofthe international training institute at the Bac Ha College of Technology, saidthat his school enrolls thousands of students each year for the branches withhigh recruitment demand from businesses and industrial parks, including about600 students for electronic engineering alone.

The college is providing trainingaccording to orders of such large firms as Samsung (the Republic of Korea),Foxconn and BenQ (Taiwan, China), he went on.

As Vietnam isfacing a shortage of high-quality human resources, the update, training, andimprovement of workers’ knowledge and skills are of critical importance, Dangsaid, adding that his school will keep close cooperation to meet businesses’high-quality manpower demand./.