HCM City needs 80,000 workers from now until the

HCM City (VNA) -- HCM City needs 80,000 workers from now until the
end of the year, with 30,000 positions for part-time labourers, according to a
senior official.

Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of the HCM City Centre for Forecasting Manpower
Needs and Labour Market Information, said manual labourers and workers trained in
vocational schools would account for 40 and 30 percent of the demand,
respectively.

University and college graduates would make up the remaining 30 percent of the
demand, he added.

Mechanical, electronics and IT engineers, chemists, food processing technologists,
civil engineers, sales and marketing personnel and workers with expertise in the
garment and footwear industries as well as service sectors would be most in need
in the coming months, Tuan said.

He said labour demand in garment, food processing and electronics sectors would be
stable for the remaining months of the year, and positions would have an offer
average monthly salary of more than 2 million VND (104 USD).

More than 222,400 people were newly employed in the first nine months of the year,
accounting for nearly 83 percent of the city's target to create jobs for 270,000
this year, statistics showed