For the first time, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment organizes career guidance for students.

Today (March 24), for the first time, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (TNMT) organized a career guidance workshop for thousands of high school students in Hanoi.

High school students from several schools in Hanoi attend a career orientation session in the field of natural resources and environment. Photo: VGP/Thu Cuc

At this career orientation seminar, students of Chu Van An, Viet Duc, Cau Giay, Yen Hoa, and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai high schools were introduced to an overview of the human resource needs of the natural resources and environment sector in the coming time, difficult-to-recruit fields, specific recruitment mechanisms, training majors at domestic and foreign universities, and scholarship programs.

In addition, students also had many questions answered about enrollment and visited the National Center for Hydro-Meteorology, the National Center for Remote Sensing, the General Department of Sea and Islands, etc.

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Manh Hien said that currently and in the near future, the Natural Resources and Environment sector is facing a serious shortage of good experts and leading experts in many fields. The demand for staff with university degrees or higher, especially experts and scientific and technical staff, is very high.

In addition, the number of civil servants, public employees and workers working in the whole sector is still unbalanced in terms of quantity and quality, and the structure of the profession. At the central level, some areas lack highly qualified and specialized staff, while at the local level, the fields of geology, minerals, water resources, hydrometeorology and climate change are lacking in quantity, weak in quality, and have an unreasonable structure.

Meanwhile, the training and development of human resources in the environmental resources sector still has many shortcomings, the policy to attract students to study some environmental resources majors has not received attention, leading to the situation that some majors and training majors are widespread while some majors have few students registering such as hydrometeorology, climate change, sea and island management. The number of civil servants, officials and experts who were trained at high levels in advanced countries in the world have retired or are about to retire without a replacement team.

In the period 2012 - 2020, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment needs to recruit about 8,000 people for the land sector, 10,000 people for the environment sector, about 600 - 1,000 people for the hydrometeorology and climate change sector, about 3,000 people for the mineral geology sector, 3,000 people for the surveying and mapping sector and about 20,000 people for the sea and island sector.

Therefore, in the coming time, the work of training, fostering, attracting and using human resources for the industry, especially career guidance for high school students to choose and take exams for majors and majors in natural resources and environment, needs to be focused on.

According to (Chinhphu.vn) - LT