Vietnamese youth have the dificulty of finding employment

The 2011-2020 Vietnam Employment Strategy report estimates the unemployment rate among youths aged 15-25 at around 7 percent over the past ten years. Young people are finding it harder than other age groups to reach to the employer and to get jobs in Vietnam - The expert said

Mr. Andrea, an economist with the International Labor Organization (ILO) Country Office for Vietnam, said: “When the country moves up the ladder of economic development, and traditional family structures of household business engaging in subsistence agriculture change, young workers are those most exposed to phenomena of joblessness.” A report showed, the youth unemployment rate is likely to get more serious with 1.5 to 1.6 million young peoples entering working age every year.

Underemployment and Vietnam recruitment agency is also pervasive and serious in Vietnam, particularly in rural areas. In 2010, every four out of 100 working persons were underemployed, and in rural areas the ratio was 6 for every 100 peoples..

Several limitations including access to recruiment, access to training, quality of training and imbalances between training provided and market needs will continue to remain stumbling blocks to this generation.

Andrea said labor market policies should be supplemented by other services such as career guidance and counseling, vocational training, as well as unemployment subsidies. In this time, workers should be able to accessing employment through portal website, public works - he said.

Vietnam is expected to have an additional 9.5 million people joining the labor force in Vietnam in the next 10 years, and needs to create 15.5 million new jobs in Vietnam during the period, according to the job department under the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs.