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Employers “cry” at skill and teamwork deficiencies
University graduates need to be retrained for 3-5 years to meet job requirements. A company reportedly recruited only six people while it needed 86. Clearly, Vietnamese businesses seriously lack enough qualified employees.
These figures were heard at a workshop on human resource governance late last week held by Edu Viet and a club of human resource managers.
Vietnam Economics Institute Head Tran Dinh Thien revealed at the workshop that most businesses in Vietnam complain that they need talented employees. This seems to be strange since Vietnam is considered a nation of workers that provides laborers for many other countries.
Participants at the workshop all agreed that “businesses crying at the lack of qualified workers, while talents are under-cultivated” is the picture of Vietnam’s labor force now.
“Our education system concentrates on the “input” or the quality of students entering universities, while it has not paid enough attention to the “output” or the quality of university graduates,” Thien noted.
“We emphasized the importance of the building up of the labor force 15 years ago while drawing up the socio-economic development plan,” he observed. “However, things have not changed much since that time.”
He added that in Vietnam, people do not have sympathy for the wealthy, even though those people create wealth for society.
“I think that we need to change our views, so that we can encourage people to study harder and practice to become better workers,” Thien theorized.
In fact, Vietnam’s labor force is abundant, but Vietnam still requires qualified workers.
According to Dr Hoang Dinh Phi, Chairman of Edu Viet, an education consultancy firm, Vietnamese businesses now rank at “average level” in terms of competitiveness.
Besides the lack of capital and low technology, is the light level of corporate governance and non-existent human resource systems.
There are now over 200,000 operational businesses, a figure expected to increase to 500,000 by 2020. A recent survey conducted by Edu Viet shows that 70 percent of 300,000 polled businesses have low and medium level technological capability, while the majority of businesses have a competitiveness rank at the medium level or lower.
Chairman of Phu Thai retail group Pham Dinh Doan suggested that the main problem now is that every officer is like a “sovereign oasis,” who does not care about others and does not join forces.
Doan stressed that, in order to achieve high work efficiency, Vietnamese workers must be taught teamwork.
vietnamnet, vneconomy
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