In 2025, Ho Chi Minh City recorded many positive signs of reducing the number of unemployment benefit registrations and recruitment needs always being higher than job search needs. A reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper interviewed Ms. Nguyen Van Hanh Thuc - Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center - on this issue.
First of all, could you tell us about the situation of unemployment registration and unemployment benefits in Ho Chi Minh City in 2025?
- 2025 is the year that Ho Chi Minh City continues to record positive signs in the employment situation. This is reflected in the fact that the number of unemployment registration and unemployment benefit applications has continuously decreased in months and years.
According to statistics from the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center from the beginning of the year to the end of November 2025, the center received 194,224 cases of application for unemployment benefits. This figure decreased steadily over the months of the year and for the whole year, it decreased by 14.12% compared to the same period in 2024 (226,145 records).
This shows that the employment situation in Ho Chi Minh City has positive and positive signs. The Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center has also submitted to the Department of Home Affairs to sign and issue 186,538 decisions on unemployment benefits for employees and 822,715 monthly job notices.
Regarding unemployment insurance, in addition to receiving unemployment benefits, qualified employees also enjoy other benefits such as vocational training support and job referrals. How have these regimes been implemented in 2025, sir?
- According to the provisions of the Law on Employment, if unemployment insurance participants meet the conditions, in addition to the unemployment allowance regime, employees will be supported to introduce suitable jobs or supported to learn a trade during the unemployment allowance period.
In 2025, the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center organized and coordinated to organize 242 job fairs and job consultations for 397,261 people. By the end of November 2025, the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center has submitted to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Home Affairs to sign a decision to support vocational training for 5,708 workers receiving unemployment benefits.
The Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center also coordinates with vocational training institutions to advise on vocational training support for workers receiving unemployment benefits and update training time of vocational training institutions into vocational training software so that unemployment insurance receiving points can advise workers. Introducing jobs or supporting workers receiving unemployment benefits for vocational training will help these workers quickly return to the labor market.
According to the information we have recorded, the demand for job recruitment of businesses in the past few months has always been greater than the demand for job search. What is this specifically, ma'am?
- Statistics on job seekers' demand - job search at the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center according to the criteria of 27 occupations in November 2025 show that the number of job seekers is 16,211, while the demand for job searches is 19,749. The gap between recruitment needs and job search needs is more than 3,500 people.
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first month of this phenomenon. Our statistics show that in other months of 2025, there is also a big gap between recruitment demand and job search demand in the direction of always higher recruitment demand. This figure is also consistent with the figure of the number of unemployment registrants decreasing over the months. The above figures show that the socio-economic situation and employment of Ho Chi Minh City have positive and positive signs.
Sir, to continue supporting workers in finding jobs, what solutions will the Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center have?
- It can be stated that in 2026, the employment situation in Ho Chi Minh City will continue to have positive changes, so job transactions will be more vibrant. We will increase the implementation of daily job consultation and introduction at the center's headquarters and unemployment insurance receiving points, focusing on all workers, including workers receiving unemployment benefits.
The Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center will continue to deploy and promote in many forms to introduce and advertise activities on job introduction and job exchanges held periodically at the center and job exchanges in coordination with units, inviting businesses and workers to participate.
At the same time, increase the collection of labor supply and demand information, short-term labor market forecasts, invite businesses and workers with appropriate needs to participate in the job fair to improve the efficiency of connecting employees and businesses; receive information and job introduction consultation through many forms such as phone, Zalo, website, fanpage... of the center.
