The first group of caregivers hired from Mongolia are all well-educated, including experienced nurses and several high school teachers, a local manpower agent said yesterday.
The first group of 11 Mongolian caregivers arrived last week and 10 of them have university degrees, the manpower agent said.
The Council of Labor Affairs formally opened the job market to Mongolians on Jan. 19.
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All of the 11 Mongolian workers met the media at a news conference yesterday. All of them are women, with an average age of 30.
Dagba Batmunkh, director of the Ulaanbaatar Trade and Economic Representative Office in Taipei and Dolgoryn Sukhbaatar, a department chief at Mongolia's Social Welfare and Labor Affairs Ministry, were also present at the news conference.
Sukhbaatar said more than 7,000 Mongolians have filed applications to work in Taiwan and about 1,000 of them have received Chinese language training.
The second batch of Mongolian workers are scheduled to arrive in Taiwan on June 1, Sukhbaatar said, adding that he hoped the number of Mongolians working in Taiwan can reach 10,000 by next May.
Batmunkh said Mongolia's per capita national income is only about US$450. To the best of his understanding, Batmunkh said, many of his compatriots look forward to working in Taiwan.
"Most Mongolian people are competent and I'm hopeful that labor affairs cooperation between our two countries will proceed smoothly and satisfactorily," Batmunkh said.
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"The Mongolian government is more willing to help verify the personal backgrounds of Mongolian applicants," Chou said, adding that it usually takes three to four months for local employers to complete formalities for importing Vietnamese and Indonesian workers.
The first group of Mongolian caregivers include a nurse with 11 years experience at a Mongolian hospital and even several high-school teachers.
A 30-year-old former high school teacher, known as Sulun, said her monthly salary in Mongolia is slightly more than US$70 or around NT$2,400.
"I hope to earn more money during my three years of work in Taiwan. I want to save money so that I can buy a house when I return home," Sulun said, adding that she also hopes to improve her Chinese proficiency during her stay in Taiwan.
Sulun has studied Chinese for three years.
Sulun's husband is a physical education teacher.
"If my work in Taiwan goes well, my husband may also apply to work here," she added.
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