Blockchain industry faces talent shortage | Society
The competition for blockchain talent is getting tougher. (Photo: tinnhanhchungkhoan.vn)Hanoi (VNS / VNA) – Lack of human resources in the flowering the blockchain industry is one of the biggest problems in development blockchain projects in the country.
A challenge from the rapid development of blockchain is that although there are many programmers in Vietnam, the number of engineers who have an understanding of the technology and can use it is still modest, said Trinh Ngoc Duc, director of the company that developed the Fight of The Ages game .
Duc said the shortage made recruitment difficult. Meanwhile, Vietnam had not had many training programs to meet the needs of the blockchain industry.
“The shortage of experienced blockchain programmers affects the product development process and leaves many potential projects unimplemented,” he said.
The lack of blockchain human resources became a major problem, too Vietnam among the global blockchain leaders, and the use of blockchain is spreading to several industries such as finance, education, healthcare, logistics and agriculture.
FPT Group Technology Director Vu Anh Tu said the blockchain had been used in more than 50 sectors.
Nguyen Ngoc Dung, president of the Vietnam E-Commerce Association, said there were around 600 GameFi projects (games to earn blockchain games).
The existing human resource covered only 15-20% of the recruitment needs, said Kevin Tung Nguyen, CEO of JobHopin.
He said that three employees of his company quit their jobs recently because they were paid three times more by competing companies. This demonstrated how the market was thirsty for blockchain programmers.
The competition for talent is getting tougher, he added.
According to Nguyen Thi Ngoc Dung of the National Innovation Center, human resources were a problem for many Vietnamese blockchain companies.
She pointed out that many blockchain companies faced difficulties due to lack of human resources and competition for talent among companies in the same industry.
The blockchain industry grew rapidly, but there was a serious lack of resources for the industry, she emphasized./.
