Samsung Display Viet Nam has signed a comprehensive partnership agreement with Hanoi Electromechanical Vocational College to recruit students who are completing the second year of the 3-year college programmes in mechatronics, industrial electrical, electronics and information technology. The candidates attend two rounds of selection (written test and interview) to compete for a number of scholarships worth of VND 5 million/ each (equivalent to the tuition fees for 5 months of the third year) and a paid internship at the company for 5 months in their third and final year.

Guided by its corporate philosophy ‘Kyosei’ – ‘living and working together for the common good of the community’, Canon Viet Nam has cooperated with the Ministry of Education and Training to carry out various projects such as ‘Friendly schools’ and ‘Canon - for the next generations’. During 8 years (2009- 2017) Canon has built many new classrooms and provided modern learning facilities for pupils in 57 disadvantaged schools across the country.

In May 2020, VinFast – a Vietnamese electrical moped and car manufacturing company, a member of the conglomerate VinGroup, has signed partnership agreements with five TVET colleges to provide dual vocational training programmes in mechatronics and automobile engineering. 

VinFast and the five colleges (Hanoi Electromechanical Vocational College, Hanoi Industrial Vocational College, Hue Industrial College, Ha Tinh College of Technology, and Ly Tu Trong College in Ho Chi Minh City) will co-develop bespoke curricula which must meet the quality assurance standards set by the TVET law and deliver the learning outcomes required by VinFast. 

The programme consists of two 15-month phases which take place first at the colleges and then at Vinfast training centre leading to a college diploma (applied engineer). The eligible students nominated by the colleges upon completion of the first phase will have to pass the selection round of Vinfast to progress to the second phase which takes place at the well-equipped training centre of Vinfast in Hai Phong. 

Vinfast offers each student a subsidy covering lodging, travels, health insurance and tuition fees in the second phase. Vinfast also provide additional quarterly scholarships for high achieving students. Graduates of the dual programme will be awarded an applied engineer diploma by the colleges and a Vinfast certified technician certificate. 

The Dual programme expects 150 students in the first cohort starting in September 2020.

Viet Nam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) is the first bank in Viet Nam that opened its own Training School for Human Resource Development in 1997. 

Today VietInBank is one of the largest banks in Viet Nam with about 23,000 employees working in the headquarters and a network of subsidiaries and branch offices in all cities and provinces in Viet Nam, subsidiaries in Lao PDR, Germany, and a representative office Myanmar. 

VietInBank collaborated with Aon Hewitt Singapore in 2014 to develop a ‘VietinBank Competence Framework’ describing a range of competences that are applied to multiple occupational roles within the bank. Each competence defines expected performance and behaviours at different levels. This competence framework serves as a means by which the bank communicates which behaviours are required, valued, recognised and rewarded in specific occupational roles. It ensures that employees have a common understanding of the bank’s core values and the expected excellent performance behaviours. 

Building on the competence framework, the School developed a training master plan by identifying skills gaps, assessing training needs of employees at different levels, developing courses and diverse development activities for different roles to meet the fast changing demands of the bank’s business development and technological advancement. 

The School offers various training options ranging from Induction course for new employees, on the job training for junior staff, continuing professional development courses for heads of departments, to leadership training for directors and deputy directors of branch offices and subsidiaries. The School also works with external experts and university academics to deliver some specialist training courses. 

On the job training is offered to employees at all branch offices through a combination of 70% task performance, 20% tutorials, mentoring and feedback by supervisors/line managers at the workplace, and 10% classroom training. The academy publishes a Handbook for on the job training, which introduces 8 training methods: creating a learning and knowledge sharing culture, task delegation, guidance and coaching, classroom-based workshops, internal assessment, role plays, job swap/rotation, and mentoring dialogue. 

Besides the professional banking courses, transferable soft skills development courses, such as customer care skills, presentation skills, negotiation skills, conflict management skills, coaching skills, are also on offer to staff. Furthermore, the school also cultivates pedagogical skills of in-house trainers and creates a pool of certified trainers who have a wealth of professional experience and expertise. The training courses often analyse internal and confidential case studies, therefore having in-house trainers are invaluable assets.