Do Ba Duc is a well-known name among the Vietnamese community in Japan. He is a computer science engineer with 12 years of experience who has been working for Japanese leading technology firms.

The creator of the game app Flappy Bird, Nguyen Ha Dong, advised students not to exchange their maturity for short-term success.

Japan’s information technology is developing well, but it lacks staff and is looking to hire Vietnamese software engineers.

Technology firms say that it is difficult to recruit and retain talent because technology engineers have many job choices now.

Vietnam will need 70,000 - 90,000 information technology (IT) workers in 2019, the online newspaper of the Government reported, citing a report by TopDev – an IT recruiting firm.

Fifty-two individuals and groups in HCM City won prizes at the 28th Young Informatics Contest for students at all primary, secondary and high schools in the city on Sunday.

By the time they arrive at university, it is too late for students to start learning programming, according to Google Brain Research Scientist Le Viet Quoc, who argues that coding should be taught at high schools

IT workers are in very high demand as technology firms are planning to expand staff this year. The average pay in the industry is 3-4 times higher than many other fields.

The rapid changes of business fields ahead of the 4.0 industrial revolution are putting pressure on the labor market, causing a shift in training of human resources to keep up with technological trends.

The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) estimates that Vietnam would need 600,000 workers in the IT industry by 2020, but training establishments can provide only 400,000.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – IT workers have been much in demand in January, according to HCM City's Centre for Human Resource Forecast and Labour Information.

VietNamNet Bridge – IT workers are in high demand with the industry developing fast, said Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of the Centre of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labor Market Information in HCM City.