Evergreen Group (長榮集團), Fubon Financial Holding Co (富邦金控) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) have emerged as the most desirable companies in three categories among university graduates seeking work this year, a survey released yesterday by online job bank yes123 showed.
The survey found that in the old economy sector, the top five most sought-after employers among new graduates this year are Evergreen (24.4 percent), the Eslite Corp (誠品, 21.8 percent), Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (台灣高鐵, 20.2 percent), China Airlines Ltd (中華航空, 18.1 percent) and Formosa Plastics Group (台塑集團, 17.6 percent), with Evergreen becoming the top-ranked employer for the first time.
In the banking and financial sector, the five most popular employers are Fubon (25.2 percent), Cathay Financial Holding Co (國泰金控, 24.4 percent), Taiwan Financial Holding Co (臺灣金控, 23.5 percent), E.Sun Financial Holding Co (玉山金控, 21 percent) and CTBC Financial Holding Co (中信金控, 19.7 percent), the survey showed.
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In the high-tech industry, the top five most in-demand employers are TSMC (31.1 percent), Chunghwa Telecom Co (中華電信, 28.6 percent), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密, 25.2 percent), Asustek Computer Inc (華碩, 24.4 percent) and Acer Group (宏碁, 16.8 percent).
Fubon and TSMC have retained their top title for the third year in a row. The survey results were unveiled yesterday at a job fair at National Taiwan University that gathered 285 enterprises that were expected to offer 20,000 jobs.
The survey results also show that up to 88.2 percent of graduates this year intend to attend campus career fairs, a record high in three years.
Meanwhile, up to 70.9 percent of companies that responded to the survey said that considering the low cost of hiring new graduates, they want to recruit employees through campus job fairs, also a three-year record high.
Overall, companies in the financial industry at yesterday’s job fair plan to hire nearly 40,000 new employees this year, the fair organizer said.
China Airlines attracted a crowd of students at the fair who were keen to become pilots. On average, one application was filled out every two minutes, the airline said.
The airline said it is recruiting 100 cadet pilots in anticipation of the arrival of its first A350-900 XWB aircrafts later this year — Airbus’ newest widebody jetliners.
The airline has ordered 14 of the A350s and deliveries are scheduled for the third quarter.
The airline said it would also recruit an additional 100 maintenance personnel and 40 customer service personnel.
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