Vietnam's Vinacomin Holds Skilled Worker Competition to Boost Technical Prowess

The Vietnam National Coal and Minerals Industries Group (Vinacomin) held the opening ceremony for its 13th skilled worker competition on July 18. This competition aims to enhance technical skills and human resource development within the group. This year's competition involves over 2,500 technical workers from 31 units across 50 professions. Following preliminary rounds at the grassroots level, 501 outstanding candidates from 29 units have advanced to the group-level competition. The competition will cover 27 trades within six main professional groups: underground mining, open-pit mining, mechanics, power plant operation, and metallurgy. Notably, metallurgy is included as a competitive trade for the first time, reflecting the group's development needs. The aim is to standardize content and evaluation methods, aligning them with national vocational skill standards to accurately assess workers' job performance capabilities. This is a crucial step towards building a highly skilled technical workforce capable of adopting, operating, and mastering modern technologies throughout the group. Vinacomin consistently identifies the development of its technical workforce as a key priority, recognizing its significant importance in human resource training and development. Each worker is expected not only to possess high skills but also to have innovative thinking, technological mastery, discipline, industrial conduct, and a spirit of continuous learning to adapt to the group's evolving demands. With the tradition of "Discipline and Solidarity," and the pride of miners, the competition is expected to foster many skilled and outstanding workers, as well as advanced models in production. Their contributions will help spread the movement of learning, training, and improving professional qualifications, contributing to the development of a coal and mineral industry workforce characterized by "skilled hands, firm discipline, technological mastery, and creativity in labor," meeting the demands of the group and the nation in the new era. Source: Nhan Dan