Nghe An organizes a scientific workshop on labor market analysis and forecasting and connecting supply and demand

The workshop was chaired by Deputy Director of the Department of Home Affairs Vi Ngoc Quynh and Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training Ho Thi Chau Loan. Attending the workshop were representatives of departments, branches, localities and businesses in the area.

Abundant labor resources

According to the report at the workshop, in 2025, the whole province will have about 82,979 workers looking for jobs, of which 19,301 workers will return home from abroad, and 5,168 workers will have expired contracts abroad. Each year, Nghe An has 30,000 - 35,000 more people entering the working age, showing that the province's human resources are very large.

In addition, there are currently over 800,000 Nghe An workers working in other provinces and cities. This is considered a potential to attract workers to return to work locally, especially in the context of the province strongly developing economic zones and industrial parks with many preferential policies.

There are currently more than 17,215 enterprises in the province with more than 400,000 employees. Of these, 26 state-owned enterprises manage over 5,500 employees, 152 FDI enterprises attract nearly 59,000 employees, and the remaining more than 17,000 non-state enterprises create jobs for over 336,000 people.

In the period of 2021 - 2025, the whole province has created jobs for more than 230,763 workers, reaching 105.98% of the plan, of which jobs in the province account for more than 45%.

However, some difficulties still exist: Many businesses have difficulty recruiting skilled workers; the quality of jobs is not high, unstable and unsustainable; most of the labor force is still concentrated in rural, informal, low-income areas. Many workers have to accept seasonal work, not in their training field. The trend of exporting labor, especially unskilled labor, is becoming more and more popular.

Need realistic forecasts and effective connections

Delegates at the workshop said that in order for the labor market to operate effectively, it is necessary to strengthen forecasting and connecting supply and demand. First of all, functional sectors must grasp the human resource situation in each locality, and at the same time update the recruitment needs of businesses to promptly connect.

One of the solutions emphasized is to attract workers from other provinces to work in Nghe An, in parallel with promoting labor shift from agriculture to industry and services; from the informal to the formal sector; from outside industrial zones to industrial clusters and zones.

Delegates also proposed to increase the collection, analysis and forecast of labor market information, organize many online job fairs, contribute to meeting the recruitment needs of businesses and finding sustainable jobs for workers.

The workshop affirmed: To make the most of the advantage of abundant human resources, Nghe An needs a long-term strategy in vocational training, improving labor quality, and at the same time improving the working environment and salary policy to retain workers in place.

The effective connection between schools - businesses - workers not only solves the immediate supply - demand problem but also creates a foundation for the sustainable development of the labor market in the new period, when Nghe An is striving to become a major economic and industrial center of the North Central region.