Nearly 30 years ago, the family situation was difficult, so Huynh Thi Ngoc Ha, 25 years old, had to give up her dream of teaching to go to work as a garment worker. She was recruited into Nha Be Garment Joint Stock Corporation after passing the "test" to sew a khaki long-sleeved shirt.

Ms. Huynh Thi Ngoc Ha (standing) instructs workers on an operation at the factory. Photo: Le Tuyet

At that time, Ha thought that she would only work as a temporary garment worker and then find another job. However, the factory has many activities, the challenges in work to conquer have made the young girl gradually fall in love with the factory. Capital is agile, she can catch up quickly, she is assigned by her superiors to sew new models, while many people are afraid to move to a new stage because they are not familiar with their hands, reduced productivity, and low wages.

"The feeling of successfully completing a difficult stage makes me very happy," recalled Ha. At that time, to encourage workers in the factory, the director put a year-end bonus for the best person in his pocket. For many years in a row, female workers have won bonuses. Three years later, when her superiors competed for a city-level skilled worker contest, Ms. Ha and her teammates received the third prize in the collective. From that achievement, she was transferred to the technical department, specializing in instructing workers to sew new patterns.

To improve her knowledge, she enrolled in a college of sewing technology. New models are quickly deployed by her, and exported goods are highly appreciated by partners. With her constant efforts, she was promoted by leaders through many positions from shift leader, foreman and currently is the director of production zone 1 with nearly 800 workers, specializing in making vestons, high-end products of Nha Trang garment. Raft.

Female director Huynh Thi Ngoc Ha said that the starting point was the direct production workers that helped her always in a state of readiness to learn and improve her qualifications. In management, she treats subordinates sincerely, paying attention to developing individuals who put a lot of effort into their work. This contributes to helping the factory team agree, always completing orders on schedule.

More than 20 km from Nha Be sewing, 40-year-old Nguyen Thi Ngoc Trang, head of a production workshop with more than 1,000 workers of Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd (Binh Tan district) also started as a production worker. at the tight stitch.

In 2000, after graduating from high school, her family was in trouble, so she had to give up her university dream to work as a worker. Loved foreign languages, every night she cycled more than 10 km from her accommodation in Binh Tan to District 6 to learn more English. After a while, she noticed that there were many Taiwanese managers in the factory, so she switched to learning Chinese to make it easier to ask questions when she had problems at work.

In addition to good communication, in work, she always strives to complete the schedule, not afraid of difficulties when being assigned a new job. When the head of the production team quit, she was promoted to replace and then went through the positions of vice-dean, dean, president, and then head of the production workshop, equivalent to the director of the administrative division.

Ms. Ngoc Trang (pink shirt) guides the process of assigning jobs to female workers in Cam Giang. Photo: Le Tuyet

Since becoming the team leader, Ms. Trang has learned how to manage so that everyone can agree and work hard. Coming from workers, she understands the concerns of labor, so she is always transparent about product unit prices and clear timekeeping. In addition, she focuses on training and encouraging subordinates to go to school, improve their qualifications, and recommend more workers to higher positions.

Ms. Nguyen Bich Lien, Head of Human Resources Department of Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd., said that thanks to good management, Ms. Trang's workshop has always been a collective with impressive achievements in production. She is trusted by workers, "good news from far away" many people when applying for Pou Yuen often ask to go to "Ms. Trang's factory" to work.

According to Ms. Lien, in order to have good managers like Ms. Trang, the factory always pays attention to on-the-job training and training. This comes from the fact that Vietnam is one of the top countries in the world in footwear production, but over the past 20 years, there have been almost no training schools for the footwear industry. To have managers, the company must train internally and recruit skilled and experienced people. More than 90% of staff and managers are grown up from workers.

In order to provide professional support for staff like Ms. Trang, the parent company - Pou Chen Group organizes production management and cost calculation classes. In addition, the trade union also organizes vocational and foreign language classes, cooperates with universities to open training programs by studying and working at the factory so that workers have the opportunity to improve their qualifications.

Similarly, in order to develop a source of local managers, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Lan, General Director of Nha Be Garment, said that during the working process, managers always pay attention to new factors through working spirit, Love the job, want to stick with the company for a long time. Enterprises have clear criteria to evaluate employee capacity. In addition, the factory opens an innovation forum that is both a playground for workers and a place for superiors to discover bright and hardworking people.

To encourage workers to improve their qualifications, Nha Be Garment has a program to provide scholarships and support expenses for workers to pursue their university dreams. "The more famous the school, the larger the amount of support," said Mr. Lan. Graduates will receive a salary increase and will be assigned to a source staff, helping businesses not to passively find leadership positions when the factory expands production. Besides Ms. Ngoc Ha, hundreds of managers at the factory all grew up from workers.

Garment workers work at a factory in Binh Duong. Photo: Dinh Trong

Vice President of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Union Nguyen Thi Thuy said that the two industries of textile, garment and footwear employ nearly 3.5 million people, but vocational training schools for the industry are few. Factories must train on the spot, focusing on developing managers from workers directly in production to meet demand.

Le Thi Kim Thuy, Vice President of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor, said that the city has many programs to encourage workers to improve their skills to have a strong foothold in jobs and factories. Among them are the contest to raise the level of workers, search for the golden hand, and the Ton Duc Thang award honoring good workers with many work initiatives. Over the past 20 years, about 230 workers have been honored, many of whom have become managers at enterprises.

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