3 recommendations to fill labor skills gaps in Hanoi

According to the report on the status and trends of implementing unemployment insurance policies in conjunction with job creation issued by the Hanoi Employment Service Center, the capital's labor market still faces many challenges and limitations. In particular, the requirement to improve capacity and fill skills gaps is one of the urgent requirements.

Therefore, the Hanoi Employment Service Center makes specific recommendations.

The vocational education system needs to be oriented with priority training according to the labor needs of the market

Faced with the situation of "scale gap in the central region", it is necessary to restructure the training program to meet the urgent need for skilled specialists. The solution is to strengthen the three-party cooperation model (state - school - enterprise), in which enterprises play a central role in determining output standards, participating in training and recruitment. Programs must integrate digital skills and soft skills into core learning.

Converting the Unemployment Insurance Fund from a "safe net" to an "investment tool" in people

To solve the problem of unemployment insurance (UI), it is necessary to effectively use a remaining part of the HI Fund to finance large-scale reskilling and skills improvement programs. It is necessary to urgently develop a mechanism to effectively implement the new regulations of the 2025 Labor Law on supplementing food allowances during training, considering this a key lever to encourage truly unemployed workers to participate in training.

Building solutions to "connect" labor for young workers, students and pupils

The young labor group is directly affected by the "ursue - lack" and has the most unsustainable employment (high unemployment insurance rate). Therefore, it is necessary to have specific solutions to "pull" the transition from schools to the labor market. The solution is to promote salary-based internationalship programs, apprenticeship models at enterprises; at the same time, encourage "first labor contracts" through policy incentives for enterprises to recruit new graduates.

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