"IT is like an errand boy"
After nearly 5 years working as an IT officer at a public service unit in Hanoi, Mr. Bui Viet Huy (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) has officially resigned.
Moving to work at a French company with a salary of about 40 million VND/month helps Mr. Huy spend more comfortably than when working at his old unit. This is also the main reason why Mr. Huy decided to give up his job in the State environment.
"When I was working in my old unit, I had to take on many tasks. In addition to my main professional work, whenever colleagues had problems with machinery, equipment, or even leaders needed to photocopy, print notices, design banners, slogans... I would call IT to do it. Sometimes I felt like an errand boy" - Mr. Huy recounted.
Although he holds many jobs at the same time, Mr. Huy only receives a salary of less than 12 million VND/month including allowances.
According to Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Khang, IT human resources have a short career, only reaching 30-35 years old will be eliminated. The older the age, the worse the thinking and learning.
“Every day I go to work, I just bury my face in the computer. With my current salary, my total income is about 180 million VND/year. Meanwhile, if I want to buy an apartment in Hanoi, I need about 3 billion VND. With a salary of 180 million VND per year, not including expenses, inflation, and depreciation, I don't know when I can buy a house,” this IT man expressed.
Mr. Khang revealed that he also plans to move to work at a foreign company based in Vietnam to increase his income and soon buy a house in the capital.
Serious shortage of IT human resources
In the report assessing the current status of support regimes for cadres, civil servants, public employees and those working in digital transformation, safety and network security, the Ministry of Home Affairs stated that the human resources for information technology (IT) and digital transformation in our country are still seriously lacking.
According to reports from ministries, branches and localities, recruiting people with IT qualifications to work in state agencies faces many difficulties due to:
Salary and policies are still low; promotion and development opportunities are low; the working environment is not yet adequate (equipment, facilities) and is not attractive enough to attract high-quality IT staff; there is a situation where civil servants and public employees, after being recruited, quit their jobs to move outside the private sector.
The Ministry of Home Affairs assessed that, because currently, the team of cadres, civil servants, public employees and those working in the armed forces performing the task of managing the digital transformation data system are all arranged to hold concurrent positions (without separate codes and titles), the regulation of allowance regimes (attached to current salaries) for these subjects is very complicated.
This issue will be studied and considered when reforming salary policy (in the direction of having separate titles and codes for these subjects).
During the period of not implementing salary policy reform according to Resolution No. 27, it is feasible and appropriate to prescribe support regimes for these subjects.
