HCM City will train IT human resources according to orders

Yesterday, in the meeting of the electronic and informatics training and production unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan said that in the coming time, big investors need about 9,000 hardware personnel. . This is a great opportunity and challenge for universities and vocational schools in the area.

According to Mr. Nhan, if investors want to search for themselves, the selection of human resources will be very long. And if the city does not meet their needs, it will be difficult to attract other major international IT corporations.

" Training units need to identify the scale, occupational structure and quality of human resources that investors need? What is the gap in qualification, professional structure and speed of human resource supply in the next 3 years? How to get businesses to use those who have been trained or new . ", Nhan said. " Cities and businesses will not let the facility lack funding. The important thing is that schools must shift from capacity-based training to service needs ."

At the meeting with training units in Ho Chi Minh City, Intel's representative said that in about five years, Intel's factory in Vietnam needs about 1,200 employees. Renasas needs 1,000 engineers, of whom 500 must know English. Nedec needed 3,000 employees .

According to a survey by the HCMC Department of Post and Telecommunications, the city currently has about 50 universities and colleges with the function of training information technology, accounting for nearly 50% of the total number of schools with the same function in the country. In the last 6 months of 2005, the schools in the city "released" about 8,300 students and students in information technology, while the demand for recruitment is just over 1,100 people. Thus, the number of trained people is always greater than the number of companies recruited.

But also according to the City Department of Post and Telecommunications, companies in the area always "call" lack of manpower, recruitment is very difficult and time consuming. Since most universities and colleges in the training process have provided students with basic knowledge. But after graduation, most students cannot immediately meet the recruitment requirements of companies.

At the meeting, Mr. Tran Ngoc Cang, CEO of Renesas in Vietnam, also acknowledged that the majority of newly graduated engineers did not meet the company's recruitment requirements. Each time the exam is held, Renesas receives about 500 applications and about 300 people are eligible to take the exam. But the final interview results were only 30 people. " The candidates for failing exams are weak in foreign languages ​​and professional knowledge. They read English well but cannot speak. They are able to study many subjects but do not have any specialized subjects ", Mr. Cang explained.

According to representatives of some universities, schools are not necessarily poorly trained, but not really attracted and oriented for students. The biggest demand of students is employment so they can easily choose the fields when graduation has the opportunity to be hired immediately. For example, Polytechnic recruits more than 300 students every year, but most of them tend to study software rather than hardware.

" In order to be effective, schools need to be facilitated to associate with industrial complexes. Because this is the environment to experiment, test and adjust the training program. Academic, updating modern knowledge, timely meeting more employers ' needs, Mr. Nguyen Tan Phat, Director of Ho Chi Minh City National University, expressed more.

Under the direction of Vice Chairman Nguyen Thien Nhan, Department of Posts and Telecommunications and universities cooperating with investors in the locality, establishing a working group on preparing human resources for information technology. In August, the City People's Committee and this working group will agree on the plan to build the lab for schools, train short-term human resources for big investors and catch up with other units.

Thanh Luong