Pilot project to improve guest workers’ skills

Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Director of the Overseas Labour Management Department Hoang Kim Ngoc said that the project will be carried out from now until 2010.

Under the project, labour export enterprises will order vocational training establishments to train workers in jobs that are in high demand in the international market such as welding, hotel and restaurant services, health care and electronics.

Director of Vinaconex Corporation’s Labour Export Company Than The Ha said that his company has received many orders for skilled workers from Japan , Russia , the Czech Republic and Mid-East countries.

According to the Overseas Labour Management Department, the country sent almost 51,000 guest workers abroad in the first seven months of the year. The largest market for Vietnamese guest workers remained Taiwan , followed by the Republic of Korea , Malaysia and Japan . The number of Vietnamese workers in new markets such as the USA , Australia and the Czech Republic was limited because of their strict professional and foreign languages skills requirements and immigration procedures.

Vietnam is striving to send around 85,000 people to work overseas this year.