Most jobseekers are interested in joining tech companies even though global technology titans are shedding headcounts to cope with a market downcycle, the online 1111 Job Bank (1111人力銀行) said yesterday.
The job bank said it made the observation after an internal survey found that 58.8 percent of respondents intend to work for tech companies and 14 percent have landed positions.
That means almost 73 percent favored jobs in the tech sector, with only 27.2 percent looking for occupations in other fields, the survey showed.
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The results came even though global technology firms are downsizing payrolls and local companies in their supply chains are going through inventory corrections, it said.
High salaries and compensation packages were the main reason for the occupation preference at 72.3 percent, followed by better perks at 53.2 percent, a rosy outlook for the sector at 49.5 percent and expectations of year-end bonuses at 39.4 percent, it said, adding that upward mobility also played an important role at 19.1 percent.
The job preference appears unaffected by the fact that global technology firms laid off 168,582 people in the first quarter, more than for the whole of last year, 1111 Job Bank said.
Still, there are 674,000 vacant positions available in Taiwan, with 70,000 of them in the tech sector, a 16.6 percent advance compared with three months earlier, the job bank said.
The data show that demand for personnel remains strong in the technology industry, it said.
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