“Young, educated, unemployed: Vietnamese graduates struggle to find jobs”

“How can I have experience just after graduating from university? No firm wants to recruit an employee with little experience like me,” Nguyen Thuy Hang, 22, said while looking for accounting jobs on a jobs site. The Hanoi National Economics University graduate has sent out CVs to dozens of local and foreign-owned companies, but only … Continue reading “Young, educated, unemployed: Vietnamese graduates struggle to find jobs”

Vietnam’s recent graduates find no value in diplomas

Below is reprint of a 6 May 2014 article about the plight of many postsecondary graduates in Vietnam.  While the unemployment rate is 10% among university graduates, it's estimated that 50% of all young people between the ages of 15 and 24 who have entered the labor market are unemployed (2012).  Then there's the specter … Continue reading Vietnam’s recent graduates find no value in diplomas