VietNamNet Bridge - In the last 13 years, Hanoi has had 1,300 university graduates who placed first on final exams, but only 10 percent of them were later employed at the city’s state agencies.

According to the Hanoi Department of Interior Affairs, since Hanoi began applying the policy on special working conditions to attract talented graduates to agencies, Hanoi has employed 300 young people. 

These included 147 university graduates who were first in their faculties, or 10 percent of 1,335 valedictorians honored as of 2015. 

Fifty-seven of them had master’s degrees or doctorates, 27 were artists, and 37 were excellent athletes who won top prizes at national and international tournaments. 

The Hanoi Department of Interior Affairs employed three valedictorians from the National Administration Academy.

In the last 13 years, Hanoi has had 1,300 university graduates who placed first on final exams, but only 10 percent of them were later employed at the city’s state agencies.

bout 50 percent of the 98 valedictorians in 2015 said they wanted to continue studying, and two-thirds of them wanted to study abroad.

When asked why they did not want to work for state agencies, many of them said they engaged their future jobs before they finished school. 

Businesses offer attractive scholarships and preferences to invite them to work for institutions after graduation.

Dinh Xuan Chung, an excellent valedictorian from Hanoi Economics University, a member school of Hanoi National University, for example, left Hanoi for South Korea in late August to attend a training course for a master’s degree with funding from Pony Chung.

"Excellent valedictorian is the ‘best among the excellent’, those with the greatest achievements at one school. 

Chung plans to continue studying to obtain a doctorate and return to Vietnam to work as a university lecturer.

Chung said Hanoi follows a good policy to attract talents by offering high pay and good working conditions, but university graduates often find out about the policies too late.

“The policy seems to be attractive. But we don’t know enough about it and cannot imagine the working environment,” he said, adding that some valedictorians on the 2016 list had left for the US and could not attend the ceremony that honored them. 

Pham Thi Ngoc Anh from the Hanoi Foreign Trade University also said she only knew about the policy after obtaining the title of valedictorian. She finished studies at the finance & banking faculty last May and is studying foreign economic relations, planning to obtain a bachelor’s degree in October. 

Anh has signed a one-year labor contract with a commercial bank to work as a business analyst.

Tran Duc Minh Hai, an excellent valedictorian of Hanoi Construction University, said no one had told him before about job opportunities at city agencies.


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