VietNamNet Bridge – The increasingly high number of bankrupted
or dissolved businesses means fewer job opportunities for new university
graduates.
Hai’s story
Finishing the Hanoi Economics
University four years ago, Duong Van Khai has not found a job in Hanoi. He has
decided to give up the dream of living and working in the capital city and has
returned to the home village.
Hai is lucky enough as he has
found a new job at a provincial state agency. Though he would have to
experience a six month probation period and the new job has no relation to his
trained major, Hai believes that this is really a good choice because this
would stop his unemployment period.
With the job, Hai can receive a
salary every month, though he knows the salary of a state official is modest.
However, “modest” is better than “nothing.”
Hai, as a student of one of the
most prestigious universities in Vietnam, once dreamed of getting a good job
after the graduation, the job that allows him to work in an international
working environment.
When Hai was a student, he
believed that it would be very easy for an economics student to find a good
job. He felt optimistic when his ability was appreciated at a company where he
spent the internship.
However, when Hai finished
university, the company refused Hai, saying that it had to lay off workers to
cut down expenses.
After that, Hai applied for
different jobs at different companies. However, Hai was told that his
curriculum vitae showed that he most fits the job of teaching. Big corporations
refused Hai, while Hai himself refused the jobs at some private companies,
which Hai believed had “bad management skills” with the family-company model.
After the failures, Hai and some
of these friends decided to become “self-employed.” However, their company got
dissolved just after a short period of operation. Hai became redundant again,
while incurring debts.
Finally, has given up the dream.
“The only thing I wish to have now is a stable job which can bring enough money
for me to get married,” he said.
Hai never thought before that he
would return to the home village, live and work in a rural area. He feels
shameful when taking the job, which has been arranged for him by the father,
who is also a provincial official and has “good relations” with the leaders of
the state agencies.
Feeling anxious about the future
Tran Van Thanh, a student of the
Hanoi National University, still has to spend one more semester at the
university before he graduates. However, he feels worried stiff now about job opportunities,
because he has not taken any part time before and he does not have working
experience.
Thanh’s elder brother, who
finished the Civil Engineering Junior College one year ago, also has not found
a job in Hanoi. Therefore, they both have been living on parents, who work in
the rice fields in the home village. The parents always urge Thanh and his
brother to find jobs to earn money themselves, because they are getting older
and cannot take hard works any more.
Like Thanh, many young people
feel anxious about the future when hearing about the employment rate increase
and they feel a hard pressure when preparing to make their way in the world.
Dr Nguyen Manh Hung, President of
Thai Ha Books Company, said that Vietnamese students nowadays now experience
their “crisis period” after the graduation. Therefore, they have to be equipped
well before they make their way in the world.
Van Chung
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