The first job fair this year organized by the Employment Service Center, Department of Home Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City, has just brought more than 7,300 job positions to workers.

Nearly 60 businesses participated in the job fair at 7 locations, both in person and online, providing rich and diverse job opportunities for more than 1,000 registered job seekers. In addition to unskilled labor , job positions requiring qualifications have also increased in recruitment rates. Notably, the recruitment criteria of most businesses have been expanded from age, qualifications to experience.

Through a survey of job seekers’ needs – finding people according to the criteria of 27 occupations of the City in the first 2 months of 2025, it shows that businesses need to recruit nearly 8,500 job positions, however, only more than 6,200 workers registered to find jobs on the City’s Job Portal.

Of which, unskilled labor is identified as seriously lacking with only over 1,400 people looking for jobs, while the recruitment needs of businesses in the City require nearly 5,000 people. Similarly, the food and beverage industry only has over 400 people looking for jobs, while the need is for over 1,200 people.

Notably, there are industries that only recruit a few positions such as: Journalism, information; political education, philosophy; law; agriculture, forestry, fisheries; education, pedagogy; culture, society; health, medicine… Some industries with the same number of job seekers and jobs are footwear, garment, engineering, mechanics, transportation, construction and architecture…

In terms of technical expertise, a survey by the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center shows that 26.08% of jobs are for unqualified technical workers; 22.26% are for workers with vocational certificates of less than 3 months, 21.65% for intermediate level, 11.63% for primary level from 3 to 12 months. In particular, jobs recruiting workers with university and college degrees are the lowest, at 11.35% and 7.03%, respectively.

In March 2025, the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center will organize 8 job fairs; including 7 “Direct and online job fairs at the Center and Unemployment Insurance Branches, the first time in 2025”. The Center will strengthen connections with universities, colleges, and vocational schools to participate in graduation ceremonies and job fairs to provide job advice to students, collect information about students about to graduate, etc.