Companies in Taiwan can now recruit foreign graduates directly from the world’s top 500 universities, as part of plans to remedy a semiconductor industry talent shortage, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said on Sunday.
Wang made the remarks during a television interview, referring to a 2021 amendment to the Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals (外國專業人才延攬及僱用法) that allows the hiring of new bachelor’s degree holders from the world’s top 500 universities as ranked by the Ministry of Education.
Prior to the amendment, most university graduates required either a master’s degree or two years of professional experience to work in Taiwan.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
The Ministry of Economic Affairs on Monday said that it has planned a series of campus recruitment events at universities across Southeast Asia this year.
The first took place from Monday to Friday last week, when employment matchmaking events were held at several universities in Singapore and Malaysia, including the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, the University of Malaya and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, the ministry said.
Similar events are to be held at universities in the Philippines from late next month to early June, and in Vietnam and Indonesia in September, the ministry said.
Upcoming sessions, such as the ones last month, are to start with online seminars to ensure students understand the issues and provide them with an opportunity to submit their resumes, it said.
The ministry said it is also taking measures to boost local cultivation of semiconductor professionals, such as industry-academia cooperation, and government and nongovernmental funding for universities.
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