Orbán promises everyone profession and decent pay

Vocational training is becoming increasingly attractive, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his opening address at the 17th festival for vocational training in Budapest on Wednesday.

When the time comes to make a career choice, more than half of young people choose vocational school, with the number of applicants usually being three-fold, but at times ten-fold the admission limit, Orbán told the opening of the Vocational Star Festival.

The prime minister said the Hungarian government could guarantee that “everyone in Hungary will have a profession, and vocational schools are open to all”. He also promised that those who had a profession would also have a job, pointing out that there were now more jobs than skilled labourers.

Orbán also said that those who work will receive a decent wage. As long as the current government was in power, he said, every Hungarian worker would be respected.

Finally, the prime minister said that “those who have a family alongside a profession will have a home and can count on family support from the government”. “Because we know that those who have a family have a good chance to live a happy life,” Orbán said, adding that happy families made up “the strong and independent Hungary we’ve been fighting for for centuries”.

Orbán: No future without vocational work and workers

Hungary has built a labour-based economy over the past 15 years and “today everyone knows that there is no future without vocational work and workers”, the prime minister said opening a professional fair on Wednesday.

Viktor Orbán told the event dubbed Vocational Star Festival that 15-20 years ago, it was generally believed that the future would be mostly determined by degree-holders and white-collar workers.

But in the past 15 years, a labour-based economy has been built and the backbone of the economy is now represented by vocational workers and skilled workers, he added.

“If intellectuals also make the best of their abilities and the worlds of intellectual work and vocational work are combined, it will result in a successful Hungary,” he said.

It is difficult to forecast what the future brings, but the government’s job is to offer futureproof and up-to-date training to everyone, he added.

Viktor Orbán told the event dubbed Vocational Star Festival that the Hungarian government could guarantee that “everyone in Hungary will have a profession, and vocational schools are open to all”. He also promised that those who had a profession would also have a job, pointing out that there were now more jobs than skilled labourers.

“We, older people, know that talented youngsters write the future of Hungary,” he said.

He added that 15-20 years ago, it was generally believed that the future would be mostly determined by degree-holders and white-collar workers.

But in the past 15 years, a labour-based economy has been built and the backbone of the economy is now represented by vocational workers and skilled workers, he added.

“If intellectuals also make the best of their abilities and the worlds of intellectual work and vocational work are combined, it will result in a successful Hungary,” he said.

It is difficult to forecast what the future brings, and increasingly difficult to pick a profession for life, he said. At the start of the decade, many expected that new technologies would replace blue-collar work but it turned out that computers cannot do the work of labourers, he added.