The supply and demand gap of the nation’s human resource market might further expand in the second half of this year, with local employers to be more challenged in finding and hiring new employees, 104 Job Bank (104人力銀行) said in its latest report.
This is due to the nation’s continued economic recovery, the report said.
The online labor agency’s data this month showed that job openings — including full-time, part-time and dispatch jobs — totaled 573,000.
That number is up 37 percent from six months earlier.
In terms of people seeking jobs, the number of applications sent via the job bank has shown a downturn this year, which is an indication that supply might not meet the rising pace of hiring demand in the near future, 104 Job Bank statistics showed.
“Hiring demand from the general public service sector topped the list, mostly driven by the strong development of local retailers,” 104 Human Resource Consultant Corp (104人力資源顧問) vice president Shelly Wu (吳麗雪) said in the report.
The nation’s retail sector saw its total sales in the first five months stand at NT$1.6 trillion (US$53.3 billion), its highest level for seven years, the report said, citing data offered by the government.
However, only 51 percent of polled employees in the retail sector would stay and work at their current company, rather than job-hopping, according to the data.
This was lower than the 56.7 percent shown in the overall job market, reflecting the welfare and salary policy in the retail sector to be improved, the statistics said.
Even in expanding the pay-raise issue to the all the nation’s industries, only 38 percent of polled employers said they would plan to give their employees more pay in the second half of this year, the 104 Job Bank data showed.
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