4 Japanese Businesses Head Hunt for Top Talents at HUST

On August 23, Hanoi University of Science and Technology held a working session with 4 Japanese businesses - Headwaters Joint Stock Company, Data Impact Joint Stock Company (subsidiary company of Headwaters in Vietnam), West Japan Railway Company, Itochu Techno-Solution Company (CTC) - to discuss the application of information technology in Japan’s railway industry. 

The delegations met with HUST faculty from disciplines aligned with their business areas, such as Information Technology, AI, Dynamic Mechanics, Transportation Economics, Digital Economics, Logistics, and Biomedical Engineering. 

Assoc. Prof. Huynh Dang Chinh, Vice President of HUST, expressed his pleasure at the delegations’ visit. “HUST has established and nurtured strong collaborations with Japanese organizations, universities, research institutes, and businesses over the past decades. In recent years, we have trained thousands of engineers for Japanese companies and sent many staff and faculty to study and work in Japan. Currently, over 1000 of our graduates are employed in Japan,” claimed Assoc. Prof. Huynh Dang Chinh. 
 

According to Mr. Tsuyoshi Tabuchi, Director of West Japan Railway Company, Japan’s railway industry is facing with a staffing shortage, especially in digitalization and AI management of urban rail. "Through internship programs, many Vietnamese students have come to Japan to address this staffing shortage. We hope more outstanding students, like those from HUST, will come here to study, work and support us,” said Mr. Tsuyoshi Tabuchi. 
 

In addition, Mr. Tsuyoshi Tabuchi commended HUST mechanical engineering students for their proficiency within and beyond their fields of education. Japanese businesses highly value such high-quality talent joining their teams. 

In response, Assoc. Prof. Huynh Dang Chinh attributed the success of students at Japanese enterprises to the quality of training. HUST pushes training in language, corporate culture and Japanese culture to better prepare students for the labor market. HUST also implemented specialized co-operation programs such as Vietnam-Japan Information Technology (60 students per year), Embedded Systems and IoT (50 students per year), Mechatronics (100 students per year). He proposed enhancing collaboration between HUST and Japanese businesses to clearly define human resource needs, facilitate student-business interactions, and develop sustainable partnerships through cooperation agreements.