Labour market sees bustling activities in year-end month

Service and tourism sectors have high recruitment demand

Vu Thi Hong Gam, a HR staff of Legend Hotel, said that the hotel has 70 job vacancies for receptionists, cashiers, bellhops, waiters with attractive monthly salaries. 

"We are searching for applicants from multiple sources, such as social networks and the centre for employment services, but we have to date recruited only 20 labourers. It is very difficult to recruit workers in the service and hotel sectors in the year-end months," she said. 

Doanh Sinh Trade, Services and Tourism JSC in Ninh Hai commune, Hoa Lu district needs to employ hundreds of labourers to meet the increasing demands during the Tet holidays.

During the monthly job fair held on December 3 by the provincial centre for employment services, the centre received over 6,000 job vacancies from enterprises, 5,800 of which are unskilled workers in the trade, service, and tourism sectors.

Nguyen Van Thuc, deputy head of the centre's labour maket information division, said in the two past years, the tourism sector was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourist destinations, restaurants and hotels were forced to shut down, and thousands of labourers lost their jobs or quitted. Many of them found stable jobs and do not want to return to old jobs. Now, the tourism sector has been revived, and the labour shortage is inevitable.

Ensuring jobs for workers in production sector

Unlike the trade, tourism and service sectors, the production sector showed low recruitment demand.

Nguyen Huu Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said statistics showed that by November 30, Ninh Binh has 3,489 operating enterprises with 166,000 workers. Of them, 13 businesses, including 9 foreign-invested enterprises, had to slash their workforce. 

A total of 4,500 workers have been affected by the workforce cut. The reason was attributed to the prolonged conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which led to disruption in the supply chains. Many firms must stop production due to a lack of materials and a decrease in the number of orders.

To deal with this situation, local firms have carried out numerous solutions such as expanding domestic and foreign markets, developing new products and labels and improving skills of labourers.

The Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has continued effectively implementing the province's programmes and plans on socio-economic recovery and development and developing the labour market.

In the coming time, the department will continue to direct the centre for employment services to enhance connections with enterprises to collect recruitment information and study labourers' needs so as to build a database on workforce supply-demand and plans for the next job fairs.

Translated by Nguyen Thuy