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In the south, production, trade, and services activities have resumed. The Center for Youth Employment Services in Ho Chi Minh City has launched a 3-in-1 support program covering job, accommodation, and COVID-19 testing for people from other localities coming to work in HCMC. Since the beginning of last month, the program has signed up 170 enterprises with 50,000 vacancies.

The Mekong Delta provinces held a virtual recruitment event with Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong province last Friday drawing more than 31,000 participants.

Le Thi Thu Ngan, a representative of the TeaKwang company in Can Tho city, said TeaKwang wants to recruit 30 workers a day. “At the recruitment event, we’ve found many good candidates. They come from Can Tho city, Soc Trang and Hau Giang provinces, and other COVID-19-free localities,” Ngan said.

The Hanoi Center for Employment Services organized a virtual recruitment session last month connecting 6 northern provinces and cities. The session offered 8,000 jobs with salaries ranging from 220 to 880 USD per month.

Deputy Director of the center Vu Quang Thanh said: “After this recruitment session, we’ll continue to evaluate the situation, the pandemic’s impact on the labor market, and the pandemic containment. The Center will work with localities to organize in-person and virtual recruitment sessions, and give businesses up-to-date labor market information.”