According to the latest report released by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECOM), the rate of enterprises having difficulties in recruiting skilled workers in information technology and e-commerce has increased.
Vietnam faces severe shortage of IT manpower
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Enterprises are in need of skilled labor in IT and e-commerce because now business on social networking and e-commerce platform is bringing high efficiency.
According to the VECOM survey, in 2017, 32% of businesses surveyed are doing business on social networks, 11% of businesses deployed on e-commerce market (down 2% compared to 2016). Social advertising and search engine advertising is the most effective form of advertising for businesses with 46% and 39% respectively.
Vietnam currently has 142 universities and 112 colleges having IT faculties. Among them, 31 universities and 18 colleges are in HCMC, and 34 universities and 30 colleges are in the Mekong Delta.
However, businesses active in the IT sector have always been complaining that the labor market cannot meet their demand for IT workers in terms of both quantity and quality.
The country is currently lacking 78,000 IT workers a year, and the figure would rise to 100,000 IT workers a year by 2020. The number of IT jobs increases by 47% a year but that of IT workers only grows by 8%. Moreover, less than 30% of the candidates can meet the recruiters’ requirements.
Although enterprises have huge demand for IT workers and often offer high salaries for IT positions, many universities and colleges cannot enroll enough students of IT, except top universities like the HCMC University of Technology, the Can Tho University and the HCMC University of Natural Sciences.
However, top universities’ enrollment is limited. In particular, the HCMC University of Technology is allowed to enroll only about 300 students for its IT faculty a year, while this number at the HCMC University of Natural Sciences is about 400-500 students a year.
