On January 1, 2026, Ms. Nguyen Van Hanh Thuc - Director of Ho Chi Minh City Employment Service Center - said that the demand for labor recruitment in 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City reached 313,681 positions. This reflects the large-scale recruitment demand in the context of production - service recovery and investment expansion.
Analysis of recruitment demand by area shows that Ho Chi Minh City (formerly) leads with 136,340 positions, accounting for 43.46% of the entire region and playing the role of economic - service - financial - technology center.
Binh Duong province (formerly) ranked second with 105,080 positions, equivalent to 33.50%, continuing to affirm the role of the "industrial capital" of the region, where industrial - export processing zones maintain continuous labor demand.
Ba Ria Vung Tau province (formerly) had a recruitment demand of 72,261 positions, accounting for 23.04%, concentrated in the technical - mining - oil and gas, logistics - seaport and tourism industries.
This distribution reflects the simultaneous operation of three economic services - technology models in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly), production - processing in Binh Duong (formerly), and logistics - port - tourism in Vung Tau (formerly).
Although recruitment needs are divided relatively equally, the level of skill requirements and the nature of work between the three areas are clearly different, requiring more close inter-regional supply-demand coordination activities to optimize labor flows.
