In response to the needs of Taiwan's industrial development and of its enterprises' cross-border operations, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has, for many years, actively helped businesses recruit high-end R&D and overseas marketing personnel. In line with the Executive Yuan's strengthening of personnel recruiting measures, the MOEA plans to upgrade its domestic and overseas recruitment practices, including enhancing website matchmaking services, strengthening the information integration platform, encouraging overseas Chinese and foreign students to stay in Taiwan, and expanding overseas recruitment networks, in the hope that the island's small and medium enterprises will be able to use collective marketing to capture the attention of overseas personnel and jointly create a new image of Taiwan in the minds of potential hirees. The MOEA will also, in the future, follow Singapore's model of talent-recruitment by providing full-function one-stop services and a matchmaking platform.
Nearly 5,000 overseas Chinese and foreign students graduate in Taiwan every year, notes the MOEA's Department of Investment Services (DOIS), with most of them coming from Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, and India. To capitalize on these human resources, the Ministry began organizing, in 2012, matchmaking seminars for overseas Chinese and foreign students in Taiwan. This has helped domestic enterprises to hire 445 overseas Chinese and foreign graduates to work in Taiwan so far. The number of hirees has significantly increased under the evaluation scoring system that Ministry of Labor implemented in 2014, in which education, salary, work experience, professional specialty, and other factors are taken into account and graduates who score 70 or more points are permitted to stay and work in Taiwan; this added 252 to the total number in 2014 alone. These hirees are mostly from Malaysia (25%), Indonesia (14%), and India (14%).
To continue to help enterprises find the personnel they need, the DOIS is holding six "Matchmaking Seminars for Overseas Chinese and Foreign Students in Taiwan and Domestic Enterprises" around the island this year. The first of these was held on April 29 in Taipei; it was attended by 45 companies (including 17 SMEs) seeking talent, including Teco Electrical, the Regent Hotel, Lion Pencil, Infortrend, and ADATA Technology. The firms offered nearly 200 jobs, mainly for overseas business specialists. More than 120 students from Southeast Asia, Central and South America, Europe, and Africa joined the seminar. The participating companies explained that to meet the needs of deployment in overseas markets, they wanted to recruit people deeply familiar with individual foreign markets-and the overseas Chinese and foreign students in Taiwan fully meet this requirement.
To increase the possibilities for successful matches, the DOIS has reviewed the criteria of jobs offered and invited qualified students from schools with large numbers of overseas Chinese and foreign students, such as National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, National Cheng Kung University, Chinese Culture University, National Chiao Tung University, and National Tsing Hua University, to register for the seminars this year.
Spokesperson of Department of Investment Services:
Mr. Bennet Wen-bin Chen, Deputy Director General
Telephone: (02) 23892111 ext. 810
Mobil Phone: 0978619241
E-mail: wbchen@moea.gov.tw
Contact person:
Ms. Yen-Hsun Chang, Head
Tel: (02) 23892111 ext. 510
Mobil Phone: 0932016-687
E-mail: hschang@moea.gov.tw