With a inhabitants of over 100 million, Vietnam has a bonus in offering a big workforce for the science and expertise sector. However, many current limitations are inflicting challenges for home expertise firms, even on their house turf, when it comes to recruiting labourers.
According to statistics, Vietnam at present has practically 78,000 digital expertise firms with roughly 1.9 million employees within the info expertise (IT) sector. However, these corporations nonetheless face difficulties in recruiting high-quality human resources within the present context.
According to specialists, most firms need to rent workers who can begin working instantly. However, reaching that is very troublesome. One of the explanations is that many high-tech industries in Vietnam, together with these thought-about key for the long run like synthetic intelligence (AI) and robotics, are nonetheless comparatively new. At the identical time, the schooling sector has restricted programmes to prepare employees in these fields, main to a niche between the wants of companies and the capabilities of academic establishments to present related coaching.
Many enterprises have chosen to re-train their workforce, however this effort additionally faces sure challenges. For employees, it might take only some months, and even only a few weeks, to grow to be accustomed to their jobs. But for high-tech industries, the method takes for much longer. For instance, it could actually take practically a yr for an engineer to attain full proficiency. Meanwhile, not many companies have the endurance or resources to maintain such coaching efforts.
In reality, overseas direct funding (FDI) enterprises, with their sturdy monetary capability and years of expertise, are in a position to entice extra skills. In distinction, most Vietnamese expertise firms are small- and medium-sized enterprises with restricted capital and expertise, so that they face quite a few difficulties.
To clear up the obstacles hindering the event of high-quality human resources, it’s important to strengthen coordination among the many “three key stakeholders”: the State, academic establishments, and companies. In addition, sturdy insurance policies ought to be established to encourage enterprises to put money into analysis and growth (R&D), cooperate with analysis institutes and universities to apply scientific leads to sensible manufacturing and enterprise actions, and on the similar time, develop markets for science and expertise merchandise.
Alongside this, the position of schooling and coaching establishments should be emphasised. In high-tech sectors, probably the most vital funding shouldn’t be in equipment, however in folks. Human resources are the best asset on this area. Therefore, universities and faculties ought to proactively replace and innovate their coaching programmes to align with the true calls for of the market amid the speedy growth of science and expertise.
In current years, the Government has paid nice consideration to formulating insurance policies geared toward growing high-quality human resources and making a stable basis for home digital expertise enterprises.
According to Nguyen Thi Nga, Deputy Director of the Department of Personnel and Organisation below the Ministry of Science and Technology, the ministry is at present main the drafting of decrees guiding the implementation of the Law on Science, Technology, and Innovation. Among them is a decree on mechanisms and insurance policies for high-quality human resources, specializing in three most important facets. First, the State will prioritise assigning science and expertise duties instantly to organisations and enterprises which can be profitable in attracting gifted people. Second, relating to the working surroundings, the State will give attention to growing nationwide key laboratories geared up with trendy, complete services to serve science, expertise, and innovation actions. Third, people shall be in a position to get pleasure from commensurate advantages from their contributions to innovation actions.
However, localities and enterprises mustn’t solely depend on State insurance policies however should additionally set up concrete plans for growing their very own human resources.
In Hanoi, Nguyen Viet Hung, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Science and Technology, mentioned that the town will quickly concern a decision particularly targeted on growing high-quality human resources. Currently, its high-quality workforce comes from analysis establishments, academic organisations, enterprises, and the civil service. Therefore, the Hanoi People’s Committee will collaborate with analysis and coaching establishments to develop further assist and incentive insurance policies to foster high-quality human useful resource growth within the coming interval./.VNA