Ho Chi Minh City is estimated to need 73,000 additional workers in the second quarter of this year, according to the city’s center for human resources forecasting and labor market information.

The service sector has the highest demand for human resources, needing 38,000-42,000, or 58 per cent of the total. The sector includes tourism, telecommunications, finance, banking, and insurance, real estate trading, education and training, and healthcare.

Key industries such as mechanics, electronics and technology, food processing, beverages, and pharmaceutical chemistry-rubber-plastics are expected to need 14,000-15,000 workers, or 21 per cent.

In order to stabilize the economy and promote the labor market, the city’s Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs plans to organize 47 job transaction sessions in the second quarter and coordinate with other localities to host three virtual job transaction floors.