ASML Holding NV yesterday launched a recruitment drive in Taiwan, while touting the monetary incentives it awarded to employees last year.
The Dutch company specializes in the development and manufacture of photolithography machines used in the production of chips.
The firm is to host activities and seminars, and offer scholarship and internship programs to jobseekers.
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It has also created an interactive Web site to help applicants better understand its innovative technologies and entrepreneurial culture, as part of its efforts to hire and foster talent in Taiwan.
ASML said it would host six employment fairs, nine job explanation sessions and two seminars on industry trends at university campuses so that jobseekers and company executives from different departments can talk face to face and explore the potential for cooperation.
Poling Liu (劉伯玲), ASML human resources director for Taiwan and Southeast Asia, said the company has in the past few years improved its benefits, and provided all-round training programs and overseas job opportunities for its employees.
Each ASML employee received an annual monetary incentive of more than six months of salary based on their performance last year, Liu said.
The company also increased maternity leave from eight weeks to 14 weeks and paternity leave from seven days to 10 days, she said.
ASML workers can also work from home for up to two days per week for a better work-life balance, she added.
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