JAVICO, the Vietnamese subsidiary of 日越MAN-POWER, announced that it had been included on Vietnam’s list of provisional sending organizations for the Employment for Skill Development Program. It will begin accepting inquiries from Japanese companies on 13 October 2026 and is preparing its recruitment and worker-acceptance systems ahead of the program’s launch in April 2027.
日越MAN-POWER株式会社 (JAVICO), a PGT HOLDINGS group company, announced that it had been included on Vietnam’s list of provisional sending organizations for the Employment for Skill Development Program. JAVICO was included on the list published by OTIT and is scheduled to begin accepting inquiries from Japanese companies on 13 October 2026.
The Employment for Skill Development Program will begin operating on 1 April 2027. It is a new program designed to develop and secure human resources in sectors facing labor shortages in Japan. JAVICO plans to develop and accept workers who meet the pre-employment requirement of Japanese-language proficiency equivalent to A1 or higher. It is establishing a system based primarily on N5 or higher, while also accommodating workers at N4 and N3 levels.
JAVICO has a talent pool of approximately 2,500 people a year who wish to work in Japan, and is establishing a system that can provide a series of development and sending processes tailored to companies’ needs, including Japanese-language education and pre-departure training.
PGT HOLDINGS is pursuing human resources services linking ASEAN and Japan as one of its strategic businesses, and plans to expand cooperation with companies accepting workers, supervisory support organizations and other parties ahead of the launch of the Employment for Skill Development Program.