Dong Nai Job Transaction Floor, Rendezvous between Enterprises and Laborers

Laborers look up recruitment information.

    According to report by Department of War Invalids and Social Affairs, in 2008 87,994 people were offered with jobs (80% of which is manual laborers), making up 103.52% of 2008 plan target, up 0.322% compared with 2007. Enterprises employed 50,345 laborers, mainly from foreign invested ones with 37.890 employees. The figure is remarkable in comparison with the past years.

    One information channel that plays a important role deal with employment is job transaction floor. It is model helping enterprises and laborers directly exchange information about supply and demand by means of the website vieclamdongnai.net. Mr. Nguyen cong Khanh, director of the provincial employment service center said: in order tod contribute to job solutions, in 2008 the provincial employment service center has held 5 job transaction floor in Bien Hoa city and in other districts like Long Thanh, Tan Phu, and Xuan Loc. Theres were 199 turn of enterprise to participate with total demand of 24,376 laborers, in which 161 enterprises had direct transaction at the floor with the demand of 19,803 laborers. Some 15,000 laborers directly took part in the floor and about 56,000 others accessed the website. Through 9 moves of the floor 7,202 were consulted and 6,464 others took preliminary selection. According to the enterprises’ feedback, 3,900 out of total registered laborers were employed. It could be said that the laborers get accustomed to this new kind of transaction.

Enterprises directly recruit the job transaction floor.

    The advantages of this year floor is small scale so it can take place with high frequency and oriented to be once a week. Ii is the place for both laborers and enterprises to meet each other but information can be exchanged anytime. On the other hand, information application in the floor helps to reduce transport cost of laborers; they can access the recruitment results online instead of going to the companies they apply for. The job transaction floor now attracts more participants than the job festival used to, in which the real number of demanding laborers and enterprises is modest.

    In contrast, the job transaction floor attracts more many people with real demand on jobs. Mr. Lam Thanh Thu, deputy director of the provincial employment service center said: electronic job transaction is a means that is essential for both enterprise and laborer to get access. The floor, in fact, provides a richer source of recruitment and job opportunities and various ways of accessing but traditional one still remains. The center only creates favorable conditions and offers free floor for enterprise and laborer to exchange. It does not directly undertake the recruitments.

Online transaction between laborers and enterprises

    By means of holding the floor, it suggests that the demand on manual labor; rural laborers are numerous but they are not qualified enough to meet the enterprises’ requirements. It is the fact that human resource training has recently been improved in accordance with market demand but training establishments should revise the education plans so that their products will be fit for future labor market.

    With an aim to enable Dong Nai to be a modern industrialized province, the transition in labor structure to meet economic mechanism draws most attentions. Via the job transaction floor, Department of War Invalids and Social Affairs could get to know the practical demand on quantity and quality of laborers in local sectors, helping it to change the training plans.

(Reported by Thu Hoai, Translated by L.H)