Most people do not find jobs closely related to what they focused on in college or in universities, a recent online survey by a job bank showed.
The survey, conducted by the 104 job bank (104人力銀行) on people who graduated in the last five years, found that only 25.6 percent of respondents said they were employed in a profession closely related to their major in college or university.
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About 52.4 percent of respondents who studied in the arts said that their work was related to their major, 50 percent of mass communication majors, and 48.2 percent of those who studied health and medical sciences.
People whose college majors were closely related to their current professions were paid about NT$3,300 more in monthly salary, the survey found.
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The average monthly salary for a person whose first job related to his or her major was NT$28,467 — compared with NT$25,166 for those whose work was unrelated their majors.
Meanwhile, another survey found that if college or university graduates want to earn an annual salary of NT$1 million in five years, they should seek sales jobs.
Nearly 54 percent of employers said graduates have the best chance of earning NT$1 million annually if they work in the sales sector, with 26 percent saaying this could be accompliahed in engineering jobs and 25.8 percent in the financial sector.
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