Quang Tri (VNA) - The central province of Quang Tri is looking tosend about 1,200 labourers, mainly skilled and qualified workers, to workabroad this year, the provincial Department of Labour, War Invalids and SocialAffairs has announced.

Workers are being given recruitment advice to help them find employmentquickly, conveniently and effectively.

Every year, the provincial Employment Service Centre organises job fairs tosupport labourers and graduates who want to study and work abroad.

The centre coordinates with employment service providers. Quang Tri continuesto maintain key labour export markets such as Japan, the Republic of Korea, andTaiwan (China), where incomes for foreign labourers are high, efficient andsuitable for Vietnamese labourers.

The provincial department has promoted the search and expansion of new marketsin European countries and Australia.

According to Vo Van Hoan, Director of the Employment Service Centre, Japan and theRoK still have a high demand for foreign labour recruitment after COVID-19,mainly in the fields of agriculture, industry, fisheries and construction.

Foreign partner enterprises highly appreciate the quality of Vietnameseworkers.

This year, the centre still carries out two types of direct and online jobtransactions to create conditions for workers to access information aboutforeign labour markets easily, said Hoan.

The centre has coordinated with domestic enterprises and prestigious abroadlabour markets to introduce to local workers.

This year, it will strengthen foreign language training for employees, headded.

The province has identified sending workers abroad as an important solution toreducing poverty.

Since 2015, about 2,000 workers have gone abroad annually, mainly to Japan and theRoK.

So far, the province has sent about 12,000 labourers abroad under contracts,with the total amount of money sent home estimated at more than 5,000 billionVND.

Quang Tri has about 5,000 labourers working abroad who have already returnedhome.

Young people in the province strongly desire to build careers and possess thediscipline and skills necessary for the industrialisation and modernisation ofsocio-economic development. Many have chosen to work abroad in theirprofessional pursuits.

This also helps create jobs, develop the economy, and reduce local poverty./.