Hanoi Times – Steve Mills, Vice President of the IBM group, has revealed his group’s plans to expand operation in Viet Nam and Asia.

Mills, who is in Viet Nam for a seminar o­n Career Education in IBM Software (CEIS) co-organized by the Hanoi University of Technologies and DTT-Hanoi CTT Company, had a talk with Hanoi information technology students o­n January 14.

According to him, IBM is in need of 30,000 programmers for its worldwide expansion. He said he expected to welcome more Vietnamese students to work for his group.

He also spoke of his group’s CEIS program, which will take Viet Nam as the first country in Southeast Asia and the second in Asia after India for its launching.

On the occasion, Mills handed over to the DTT-Hanoi CTT Company a certificate as IBM’s first partner in CEIS program in Vietnam.

IBM Viet Nam also signed a memorandum of understanding o­n training cooperation with the Hanoi University of Technologies and DTT-Hanoi CTT.

Under the MoU, the three sides will cooperate in training lecturers, organizing more courses and recruiting IT students after they graduate.

Learners will follow curricula with international-standard textbooks provided by IBM and receive IBM certificates.