Changing thinking about finding a job
In the context of a vibrant but also competitive recruitment market in the last months of the year, many students have soon changed their job search strategies. Instead of focusing on the starting salary, they prioritize accepting a job to accumulate experience and stay long-term.
While looking for a job as a project engineer and project estimator, student Ly Chi Dam (Nam Can Tho University) expressed: "Although I have 1 year left to graduate, I am hoping to have an internship opportunity to expand my connection in the future. For me, the starting salary is not too important, what is necessary now is to have a job to improve my skills".
Sharing the same view, male student Cao Trung Hieu (Viet Nam College, Can Tho City) said that the starting salary is a prerequisite, but the opportunity to work to learn is even more important.
Through the process of finding jobs at job fairs and job fairs, I realized that in addition to professional qualifications, employers also require experience as well as foreign language skills and information technology. This forces me to proactively cultivate to seize job opportunities" - Trung Hieu shared.
Enterprises hunt for specific human resources
Can Tho City Employment Service Center has just coordinated with Corps 12 (Truong Son Construction Corporation) to organize the Construction Industry Job Fair - Online job fair in the fourth quarter of 2025. The activity has the participation of 8 Provincial and Municipal Employment Service Centers, with 165 enterprises recruiting 25,836 positions.
Colonel Vo Khac Hung - Deputy Commander of the 12th Corps, Deputy General Director of Truong Son Construction Corporation - informed that currently, the unit is assigned to implement a number of key projects in the Mekong Delta. To complete projects with large workloads and difficult and complicated technical requirements, the Corps needs to recruit personnel from technical ministries, engineers to unskilled workers.
At the Construction Industry Employment Fair, we need to recruit nearly 1,000 workers, including construction engineers, construction contractors, drivers, machine operators, unskilled workers... and prioritize local workers to facilitate work in projects - Colonel Vo Khac Hung said.
The 12th Army Corps also hopes that the Can Tho City Employment Service Center will coordinate with schools and establishments to develop a training cooperation plan or a memorandum of understanding as a basis for placing orders for training in specific professions. Accordingly, units in the 12th Corps will actively accept interns in projects, with good policies for interns and recent graduates to attract early and remote labor.
With high recruitment demand, in the fourth quarter of 2025, Can Tho City Employment Service Center plans to coordinate with localities to implement about 60 consultation points and job fairs in communes and wards in the area; Job fairs for students at universities and colleges; Online job fairs in the Mekong Delta and neighboring provinces.
"The demand for specific human resources for each industry is increasingly diverse. Therefore, in addition to regular job consultation and introduction activities at the unit, we plan to deploy and expand job fairs in the specific direction of each industry and each field to improve the effectiveness of connecting labor supply and demand in the city and between the city and neighboring provinces and cities" - Mr. Hoang Van Luu - Deputy Director of the Can Tho City Employment Service Center - said.
