Warning about "falling into the trap" of technical trainees going to Japan

Workers need to learn about the program to avoid falling into scam traps.

In recent years, cooperation between Vietnam and Japan in the field of human resource exchange with the participation of interns in the Technical Intern Training Program has developed strongly.

The program not only contributes to solving the problem of unemployment in Japan but also brings great opportunities for young Vietnamese workers, helping them increase their income and especially learn skills to develop their careers, spreading labor productivity when returning home. However, there are many individuals who take advantage of workers' lack of knowledge to make illegal profits.

The Overseas Labor Center said that recently, some workers who wanted to participate in the IM Japan program did not research the information carefully and paid illegal money to organizations and individuals through intermediaries and brokers. These organizations and individuals collected money in the form of organizing pre-exam review sessions, promising to influence the results of the exam and choose the profession according to the workers' wishes in order to illegally collect money.

In fact, the program of sending interns for technical internship in Japan according to the memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Japan International Human Resources Development Organization was assigned by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to the Overseas Labor Center to directly coordinate with IM Japan to implement.

Therefore, the Overseas Labor Center would like to remind workers that, apart from the IM Japan representative office in Vietnam, this unit does not coordinate with any other organization or individual to select, train and dispatch interns.

At the same time, the Overseas Labor Center does not organize or cooperate in organizing review courses before the exam. Therefore, workers review and practice by themselves before the exam, and do not pay any organization or individual to attend these courses. Paying money to intermediary organizations or individuals is against the regulations of the program.

If found to be in violation of this regulation, trainees will not be sent to Japan, even if they have signed an internship contract with the receiving company.