23:47' 08/04/2008 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge - Worker training suitable with enterprises’ demand is in the best interest of managers, vocational training schools and enterprises. If the problem is solved, enterprises, schools and employees will all profit.
Currently, one headache for enterprises is the lack of high-quality human resources. According to a survey conducted by the World Bank (WB), 60 percent of employees in Vietnam who graduated from junior colleges and vocational training schools still need to be re-trained after being recruited.
So developing training matching the demand of enterprises is the leading interest of managers, vocational training schools and enterprises. Enterprises, schools and labourers will all profit by solving this problem.
According to statistics from the General Department for Vocational Training, 70 percent of Vietnamese labourers are untrained, 30 percent of those working for enterprises are untrained and just 9 percent of employees have graduated from universities and colleges.
At present, the country has more than 300 businesses, on average each business is short of 6-7 trained employees. Accordingly, Vietnam lacks around 1.4-1.6 million trained employees. With the present job growth rate, demand for trained employees will reach 8 million people in 2010.
In fact, training schools have not fully met the demand of enterprises. Mr. Le Van Binh, director of Phu Cuong Limited liability Company, said that his company is lacking human resources, especially skilled technicians and workers. The company also has to re-train engineers who just graduated from a university.
Tran Thu Huyen, general director of Asia painting joint stock company, said Vietnam currently has no schools training workers about chemical production, so 100 percent of businesses have to recruit employees and then train them appropriate with the demand of businesses. Furthermore, schools only focus on professional knowledge, not paying attention to training working discipline for employees.
However, not many businesses actively sign contracts with schools to train in their business fields. Businesses have not recognized that they have to partly pay training fees to schools which provide trained human resources for them to re-invest in equipment.
Hoang Van Dien, headmaster of Hanoi University of Industry, said that his university in recent years has cooperated well with foreign and domestic businesses to train human resources. For example, Toyota Vietnam corporation has provided his university with an equipment system to repair and paint cars. The line is very modern and the university is training workers for businesses who specialize in car repair.
Recently, the university also signed a contract with Hong Hai Corporation of Taiwan; each year the university trains and provides 1,000 employees for them. The corporation also provides equipment, electricity fees, materials and salary for lecturers for six months.
“The corporation takes applicants at the college level, the university trains them for two and a half year, they train them for six months, then the students will work for their corporation,” Dien said.
Nam Dinh Industry College has applied the model of training students specifically for their position in a business after they graduate. To train industrial garment workers for Nam Ha garment joint stock company, the college and the business have made a training program targeted t a students’ desired position after they graduate and guided by staff from the business. Accordingly, after graduating, students can directly apply what they have learned to their job.
To overcome insufficiencies in training over the past time, Mac Van Tien, director of the vocational training science research centre under the General Department for Vocational Training, Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, said that schools have to train to meet the demand of businesses and businesses have to play a role in the training progress.
Business has to join hands with training facilities to work out standards, skills, training programs, give lectures and evaluate students. Training facilities provide theory, and businesses train skills and help student gain practical experience.
In the future, businesses will grant certificates for learners. On the other hand, training facilities have to conduct surveys of business demand. Moreover, businesses must also actively cooperate with training facilities.
Training facilities will be supported with materials and equipment, then businesses can recruit employees who meet their business requirements and students can get jobs soon after they graduate.
(Source: VOV)
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