Vietnam lacks high-quality IT workforce
Vietnam faces a serious shortage of high-quality workers in information technology (IT), which poses challenges to the country as digitalization, the fourth scientific revolution, is taking place worldwide.
Under the national workforce master plan, Vietnam needs approximately one million IT workers by 2020. According to the recruitment website Vietnamworks, the demand for IT workers increases 47% annually but Vietnam meets only 8 percent of demand.
Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Information and Communications’ Information Technology Department, said Vietnamese students can quickly grasp IT but lack soft skills and teamwork ability. Most software companies are small and medium without professional marketing staff so products are often distributed via foreign partners, he said.
A survey of more than 50 IT firms by the Hanoi University of Science and Technology’s Faculty of IT showed that 70% of IT graduates achieved good grades but in reality, the IT workforce is weak in English proficiency, self-study and negotiation skills.
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