According to the Hanoi Employment Service Center, in June 2026, the Capital's economy continued to witness solid and comprehensive growth momentum, clearly reflected in the socio-economic context and the recruitment picture of businesses.
Hanoi's labor market recorded a large explosion in the trade - service sector when other service activities accounted for 50.8% of the total market recruitment demand; followed by the processing and manufacturing industry maintaining a stable recovery momentum with 18.3% of the target.
Notably, the construction industry (accounting for 7.5% of total demand) is a hot spot attracting capital and human resources. The simultaneous acceleration of construction of a series of large infrastructure projects and key super projects in the area has created a huge "thirst" for human resources, leading to the risk of supply-demand imbalance and fierce competition to attract a team of highly skilled engineers and workers.
However, the market also revealed a clear trend of differentiation with a shortage of personnel in the mid-range segment.
Regarding qualifications, businesses are focusing on hunting for workers with university and college degrees or higher (total demand accounts for 51.3%; of which university accounts for 28.5% and college accounts for 22.4%).
Meanwhile, the actual supply of job seekers is concentrated in 2 groups: the group with university degrees or higher (accounting for 33.3%) and the group of untrained workers (accounting for 31.2%).
Regarding occupational groups: Businesses have the largest recruitment demand in the intermediate professional group (21.42%) and senior group (19%), but the number of applications from workers is concentrated in ordinary service occupational groups or the block of assembly workers, machinery and equipment operators (while the actual recruitment demand of businesses for this operating group only accounts for 10.50%).
According to Mr. Vu Quang Thanh - Deputy Director of Hanoi Employment Service Center, the figure of 51.3% of recruitment demand in June in Hanoi focusing on the group with college and university degrees is a very clear sign that the capital's economic structure is strongly shifting to depth.
In the opposite direction, opportunities for unqualified and unskilled workers are increasingly shrinking due to two core reasons.
The dominance of technology and automation: Companies and businesses in Hanoi are accelerating digital transformation and AI application. Repeated, simple job positions that used to be replaced by machines. Businesses accept paying high salaries to recruit personnel with management and technology operation skills rather than recruiting many unskilled workers.
Strict requirements on productivity and competitiveness: In the current economic context, the measure of enterprise is efficiency of use and surplus value per capita. Untrained workers often lack industrial style, digital skills and foreign languages - core factors to improve national productivity.
The period when businesses chased cheap, large-scale labor sources has passed. If workers do not proactively learn a trade and upgrade their skills to adapt, they will put themselves on the sidelines of the market and face the risk of long-term unemployment," said Mr. Vu Quang Thanh.
