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On April 14, 2026, the Ministry of Internal Affairs held an opening ceremony for the National Job Exchange in its trial version. The ministry is coordinating efforts to promote the operation of the National Job Exchange at localities to improve the efficiency of connecting labor supply and demand across provinces, cities, regions, and nationwide.
To implement the task, the Ministry requested People’s Committees of provinces and cities to disseminate information on the features, utilities, and effectiveness of the National Job Exchange. The outreach is to focus on businesses and workers in industrial zones to raise awareness and encourage online registration, recruitment, and job searching on the National Job Exchange, contributing to a more transparent labor market and reducing intermediary costs.
Internal Affairs Departments and Employment Service Centers at the provincial and municipal levels are required to immediately receive, manage, and operate the National Job Exchange locally, ensuring smooth labor matching transactions. The ministry also asked units to compile and evaluate initial results—such as the number of enterprises and workers registered, the number of job positions connected, and user feedback and difficulties—and submit reports to the Ministry (via the Employment Department) within 15 days for synthesis, government reporting, and system improvement.
Localities were also urged to allocate IT-capable resources and personnel to operate the National Job Exchange and to organize training courses and direct support for enterprises and workers during platform use to resolve technical issues promptly. The Ministry emphasized that close cooperation among provincial and municipal People’s Committees is essential to make the National Job Exchange a tool for labor market development and sustainable socio-economic growth.
Deputy Minister Nguyen M. Khương said building and finalizing the National Job Exchange is a significant milestone in modernizing the labor-employment sector through digital transformation. He noted that human resources remain the decisive driver of national development. Vietnam’s labor force is about 53.6 million people with a relatively balanced structure, which he described as a critical resource for industrialization and modernization.
He added that Vietnam hosts around 1 million operating enterprises—domestic and foreign-invested—alongside tens of thousands of cooperatives and over six million household businesses. The workforce is large and diverse in size, sector, and hiring demand. Effective linking of labor supply and demand via the National Job Exchange, based on digital data and trusted identities of market participants, is expected to support an advanced, transparent, and synchronized recruitment and job-search framework. The ministry expects this to reduce transaction costs, enhance the efficiency of human capital allocation, and promote a flexible, sustainable labor market.
Deputy Minister Khương said the launch of the National Job Exchange is expected to maximize the potential of Vietnam’s human resources, boost productivity, create jobs, and improve workers’ living standards and incomes. He urged provincial and municipal departments to treat the platform as a central task in the digital transformation of employment and social welfare, ensuring timely data on supply and demand, strengthening enterprise linkages, and expanding job opportunities on the platform.
For enterprises, the ministry stated they are both beneficiaries and key players in operating the platform. It urged businesses to actively participate in registration and utilization, describing the National Job Exchange as an official, transparent, efficient, and cost-saving recruitment channel that provides accurate, timely job information and facilitates worker feedback, helping government agencies and the technology unit continue to improve services.
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