More than 6,000 soldiers received career counseling and job referrals.

This year's festival is a central-level pilot program to propagate and provide information on the Party and State's policies and guidelines onCareer counseling, vocational education and job referrals for young people completing military service.

At the same time, provide information on domestic and foreign labor markets, connect with vocational training institutions, labor supply units, labor recruitment units with young people completing military service; create a favorable environment for young people completing military service to learn about vocational training classes, participate in career experiences with digital transformation application models.

Thereby, contributing to raising awareness of young people completing military service about careers and jobs; orienting the selection and introducing careers suitable to the abilities of young people completing military service.

Attending the festival at the live and online venues were more than 6,000 people. Soldiers are young men about to complete their military service who need career counseling and job search at military units in Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue provinces of Military Region 4.

Speaking at the program, comrade Nguyen Tuong Lam - Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Youth Union, President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union emphasized,Every year a large number of young men complete their military service and return to their hometowns.

This is a young human resource that has been educated, trained in formal discipline and has good moral qualities, agile working style, and can meet the requirements of agencies, units, and enterprises at home and abroad. Therefore, paying attention to consulting, training, and introducing jobs at the right time for young people who have been discharged from the army will contribute positively to the high-quality labor force, contributing to the socio-economic development of the country.

Over the years, the Party and State have issued many policies, guidelines, laws to care for and ensure the material and spiritual life of demobilized soldiers.

As a socio-political organization, caring for and protecting the legitimate and legal rights and interests of young people, the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has implemented programs to accompany young people and directed the Youth Union at all levels to carry out many activities to provide consultation and introduce jobs to young people, especially demobilized soldiers and young people about to complete their military service; the provincial and municipal Youth Unions regularly coordinate with the labor sector to organize "Job Exchanges" and "Job Fairs" for young people.

At the same time, coordinate with businesses, industrial parks, and export processing zones in the area to organize job supply and introduction for young people, focusing on consulting, career guidance, and job introduction activities on specific topics for young people about to complete their military service.

However, besides the achieved results, there are still some shortcomings and problems in counseling, career guidance and job placement for young people about to complete their military service such as: the rate of vocational training support is still low, the promotion of vocational training cards is still limited; the management, monitoring, support and creation of conditions for job placement for young people after discharge in some localities have not really received due attention.

The festival is an opportunity to listen to the thoughts, aspirations, recommendations and proposals of young people preparing to be discharged from the army, in order to continue to research, pay attention and propose policies and measures to create positive and breakthrough changes in career counseling, vocational education and job referrals for young people completing their military service.