What will be the most prominent employment trends in Vietnam in 2025? What jobs are most likely to experience a hiring surge? What jobs will be a challenge for employers and HR professionals? Let’s take a look at some data and the 5 current “hottest” careers to find out.
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Have you known about employment trends in Vietnam in 2025 yet?
Information Technology
According to data from the Vietnam National Institute of Information and Communications Strategy (NIICS), only 15% IT graduates are up to employers’ s standards. Yet, until 2020, the country is in need of about 411.000 headcounts in this field. On average, Vietnam needs 80.000 IT headcounts each year, while Vietnamese universities only produce around 32.000 graduates each year. These numbers prove that the shortage of IT manpower will always be a relevant issue in Vietnam.
In Vietnam, the average salary of fresh IT graduates is about 5 mil VND. However, with the current shortage that the country is facing, this amount is likely to be much higher very soon in the future. In order to successfully recruit an IT engineer for the company, an HR professional will have to fight against the 2,5:1 ratio (2,5 companies for 1 candidate).
Marketing
Vietnamese media is growing very rapidly. In a society where people are besieged by an overwhelming amount of information, a media/PR department is always needed to represent the company and conduct promoting/ branding activities. According to the Center of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labor Market Information Ho Chi Minh City, up until 2020, the marketing field is in need of more than 10.000 headcounts each year. With that being said, marketing continues to make it to the list of top careers with the highest shortage of human resources in Vietnam.
Marketing is one of the most rapidly growing industry in Vietnam
Construction
Vietnam is one of the nations with the highest growing potential in Asia. Tons of infrastructure construction projects are constantly being hatched and built, meaning that construction will remain among Vietnam’s employment trends in 2025. Despite having the highest labor force growth rate, the construction industry is always suffering from a manpower deficit. Until 2020, the demand for talents working in this industry increases up to 400.000–500.000 headcounts. This shows the challenge recruiters are coping up with while trying to hire employees for the construction industry, especially those at senior levels.
English Language
In the era of international economic integration, small and medium-sized enterprises are springing up with an incredible speed. Only counted enterprises founded within the last 5 years alone, there are already more than 200.000 in Vietnam, and each of them needs at least 1 English specialist. Evidently, besides these companies, there are big corporations, multinational companies, joint venture companies, etc. with high demands for employees with English specialty. Apparently, the road is wide open for graduates with an English language degree in Vietnam.
Hospitality
Tourism, restaurants, hotels are becoming the dominant economic sector of Vietnam. As a result, recruiters have to be constantly on the lookout for more headcounts for this particular field. According to the Center of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labor Market Information Ho Chi Minh City, just within the Ho Chi Minh Metropolitan area, from now until 2025, jobs from the hospitality industry will account for around 8% the total number of jobs in the whole nation, a significant sector in the country’s employment needs.
Hospitality is fast developing along with rising demands in experiencing of the local people
The Solution?
With the alarming shortage of manpower in different industries, it is a challenge to HR professionals to find the perfect match for their hiring needs. Unqualified profiles only make the recruitment process more time consuming for recruiters. As a result, some companies decided to approach the issue using advanced technology: AI-powered recruitment platforms, which can scan more than 20.000 profiles everyday to recommend the most qualified candidates to recruiters and vice versa.
As the idea of using AI technology for recruitment is still very unfamiliar in Vietnam — a country with a highly valuable talent pool, JobHopin is proud to be the pioneer in applying AI to their recruitment platform for a more efficient and cost-saving recruitment process. JobHopin eases recruiters’ concerns about unqualified candidates and helps optimize the entire recruitment process for much better results.
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The JobHopin Team