FPT, Recruit Technologies join hands in software cooperation

Software outsourcing companies will have strong demand for manpower in 2014 as outsourcing orders are expected to pile up, industry players said.

Nguyen Thanh Lam, general director of FPT Software, said that the enterprise will recruit 10,000 new staff for various positions such as project managers, software engineers, software testers, and translators of the Japanese language. They will work in Vietnam and other countries.

The software outsourcing industry is expected to grow strongly next year, pulling up the demand for human resources, Lam said.

In 2013, FPT Software estimates to see revenue from the Japanese market jump 40% to US$100 million. The market is expected to generate US$200 million in revenue in 2017.

TMA Solutions as another big software firm said that software outsourcing revenue from the U.S. and North America has surged by 30% this year. As software outsourcing orders from the market are projected to increase next year, the enterprise will recruit hundreds of programmers in the coming time.

Other software firms such as GSC, KMS, CSC, Luxsoft, Aricent and Fujinet also said that they will hire many engineers in 2014. However, they have met challenges in recruitment as the local workforce fails to meet their demands.

The local labor market cannot meet manpower demands of software firms in both quantity and quality, said Lam of FPT Software.

“Now, we cannot recruit enough information technology students that have both professional knowledge and foreign language skills. It is very difficult to obtain manpower goals,” he added.

To cope with the problem, the enterprises have cooperated with training centers to speed up vocational training, transfer their practical training programs to the centers and recruit graduates.

In related news, FPT Software Company and Japan-based Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Sunday to cooperate in the software sector.

Under the MOU, FPT Software is authorized to supply, deploy and maintain software services.

According to FPT Software chairman Hoang Nam Tien, FPT Software’s revenues come mainly from the Japanese market (at over 50%) and the firm expects to earn revenues of US$200 million in this market in 2017.

Besides, the number of employees of FPT Software Danang will increase to 2,000 in 2017, including the number of laborers recruited for the new cooperation deal.