Japanese companies hungry for local workers

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Nguyen Thu Hien, chief executive officer of locally-owned HTV Vietnam Services & Trade supplying workers to Japanese firms, told VIR that Japanese firms’ demand for Vietnamese workers from her company in this year’s first four months climbed 30 per cent on-year.

“We are recruiting 50 workers for auto component maker Osaka Company in Hung Yen province, and also recruiting hundreds of workers for many Japanese electronic component making firms based both in Vietnam and Japan,” Hien said.

According to the website: www.vieclambank.com supplying Vietnamese workers for Vietnam-based Japanese firms, more than 130 Japanese firms in Vietnam were now recruiting employees in many industrial sectors.

Nguyen Duy Thang, a headhunter from locally-owned TMS Human Resources Company, told VIR that Japanese firms’ demand for Vietnamese workers had been dramatically increasing since last year when the ongoing insular and sea dispute between China and Japan had prompted Japanese firms in Japan to reduce Chinese workers, and employ more Vietnamese workers.

“We are recruiting an unlimited number of Vietnamese workers to send to Japan. Previously 70 per cent of foreign workers in Japan were Chinese, but now the rate is about 30 per cent, while the rate of Vietnamese workers in Japan rose to 15 per cent previously to about 30 per cent now,” Thang said.

TMS, currently providing Vietnamese workers for 30 Japanese business associations, sent 3,000 Vietnamese workers to Japan last year and the figure is expected to be doubled this year.

Like these two headhunting enterprises, locally-owned CEO Service and Development Company is also recruiting over 200 Vietnamese workers for Japanese firms in Japan.