According to the report on the status and trends of the implementation of unemployment insurance policies associated with job creation work issued by the Hanoi Employment Service Center, in the period of 2019-2024, while other groups of qualifications have strong changes and shifts, the employment rate in both college and intermediate training levels has remained almost unchanged, only fluctuating around 6%.
According to the Hanoi Employment Service Center, the Hanoi labor market in the period of 2019-2024, in addition to the main positive trends, data on labor structure according to the professional qualifications also pointed out a serious bottleneck, which is at risk of becoming a barrier to sustainable development in the long term.
Accordingly, the market recorded the "on-site presence" of the formal vocational training sector, especially in the secondary and college levels. While other groups of equations have strong fluctuations and shifts, the employment rate in these two training levels has remained almost unchanged, only fluctuating around 6% throughout the analysis period (2019-2024).
In the context of a labor market constantly expanding in scale and upgrading in quality, this stability is actually a relatively decline. It shows that the formal vocational education system has not yet promoted its role, is not attractive enough to attract learners and has not expanded commensurate with the needs of an economy on the path of modernization, said the Hanoi Employment Service Center.
The delay in the formal vocational training sector is creating an increasingly large "scale gap in skills at the central level", leading to the paradox of "less teachers, less workers" that has been warned for a long time. The capital's economy, especially the high-tech industrial and high-tech service sector, is in great need of a team of skilled technical students and workers, who are well-trained in intermediate and college levels. This is the core workforce, capable of directly managing, transferring, maintaining technology and implementing complex production and business processes.
However, the Hanoi labor market is tending to differentiate in two extremes, one side is that the labor force with university degrees or higher is increasingly large, leaning towards research and management capacity; the other side is the labor force with practical experience but not through formal schooling, which is also growing strongly. The "vacuum" in the middle, which should be a solid bridge between thinking and practice, is not being filled in proportion, creating a "bottleneck" in the human resource structure.
According to the Hanoi Employment Service Center, the effectiveness of this "skills gap" can negatively impact the competitiveness of the economy in the long term, which can reduce labor productivity when businesses cannot find enough qualified technical personnel to optimize technology and processes.
Therefore, implementing a breakthrough, comprehensive reform to improve the quality, efficiency and attractiveness of the vocational education system is not only a solution for the education sector, but also a vital strategic requirement for the sustainable development of the labor market and the capital's economy.
