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Sat, 04/10/2010 - 13:50
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severe shortage of jewellers exists in gold jewelry manufacturing and sales

HCM City (VNA) - A severe shortage of jewellers exists in gold jewelry
manufacturing and sales in HCM City , according to Nguyen Van Dung,
director of the Saigon Jewelry Association.

Some 5,000 enterprises operating in the field annually need from 5,000 to 10,000
metalworkers, but the city’s only jewelry training centre can provide 300 to 500
metalworkers a year.

The domestic price of gold has fluctuated widely and the purchasing power of gold
has increased sharply since the beginning of the year, pushing up the
manufacturing and trading of gold jewelry, he added.

An owner of Minh Hung gold jewelry store in Tan Binh District said that both large
as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises in the field were facing a shortage
of qualified workers.

He said his store needed to employ 20 to 40 workers bur student at the centre
had already signed contracts with other enterprises.

“Only a few workers from other provinces have been employed through the
introduction of some of my friends,” he added.

“The centre fails to satisfy recruitment demand of enterprises such as Ben
Thanh Jewelry Co and Phu Nhuan Jewelry Co because most students are assured of
getting a job after they graduate or working for their family owned
facilities”. Tran Ngoc Tri, deputy director of the centre, Tri said.

Although the centre enrolls candidates for each course, only 100 students are
taking the course now, Tri added.

He attributed the shortage of metal makers to the lack of interest of students who
think the job is low-income and harmful to health due to mercury inhalation.-
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