In a survey by online job bank yes123, 85 percent of respondents said they wanted to change jobs, with 46 percent saying they have already started looking for a new position.
The results suggest that the economy has recovered, so ambitious workers don’t feel it’s necessary to wait until after the Lunar New Year to switch jobs and are instead taking action already. According to yes123, it’s a case of “first come first served.” After the Lunar New Year there’ll be more jobs, but competition will also be more intense.
Yes123 carried out its online survey “Are people ready to start job hunting?” between Oct. 28 and Nov. 1 and collected 1,605 valid responses.
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The survey found that 91 percent of respondents have considered changing jobs this year, of which 42.4 percent think about it every month and almost 20 percent think about it every day. It was found that 45.7 percent of workers had already started looking for a new job, with 13 percent saying they will start job hunting before the Lunar New Year and 26 percent saying they’ll wait until after.
When asked why they wanted to change jobs, 80 percent said they wanted a better salary, 50 percent hoped to find a job where they could better develop their talents and almost 40 percent wanted a better position. According to yes123, a new job doesn’t necessarily equate to a better salary. To improve their salary, job seekers must find out when a company lacks staff and make sure their resume clearly shows what value they can bring to the organization. Only by following these steps may the job seeker have a useful bargaining chip when it comes to the salary negotiations.
Additionally, over 50 percent of respondents said they thought it was easier to find a job this year compared to last year. Almost 60 percent said the best time to job hunt was after the Lunar New Year, but 34 percent worried that there’d be too may other job hunters, making finding a job even more difficult. Fifty-six percent of respondents said they would look for a new job before quitting their current one, and 82 percent would prepare to change jobs one month in advance, while 16 percent would prepare three months ahead. Because of this, yes123 expects the period from now to the Lunar New Year to be the peak season for job hunters.
Yes123 points out that although the economy has recovered and there are more work opportunities, job seekers often want to get their year-end bonuses before switching jobs. But when companies need to recruit they don’t wait around, so while there’ll be more jobs after the Lunar New Year, there’ll also be more competitors so the best advice for job seekers is to start their job hunt immediately.
(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY TAIJING WU)
根據yes123求職網調查，八成五上班族有換工作的打算，更有四成六已經在找工作。
這顯示景氣復甦，雄心勃勃的上班族已等不及農曆年後轉職，提前開始行動。yes123認為「先搶先贏」，農曆年後，雖然工作機會多，但競爭也更激烈。
yes123求職網於十月二十八日到十一月一日進行「上班族轉職大風吹？」網路調查，共有一千六百零五份有效問卷。
根據調查結果，高達百分之九十一的受訪上班族今年動過換工作的念頭，其中百分之四十二點四是因為「每個月」都想換，更有近兩成是「天天想」。有百分之四十五點七的受訪者已開始找工作，一成三計畫農曆年前開始找，二成六選在農曆年後。
想要跳槽的原因，八成想要更好薪水、五成希望能有發揮空間、近四成則想爭取更好的職位。yes123提醒，跳槽並不一定等於加薪，如果想要加薪，除必須掌握企業缺人的時間點，也要在履歷上讓企業看到自己的高價值，才有「籌碼」爭取更好的薪水。
此外，有超過五成受訪者認為，今年跳槽比去年容易，近六成認為農曆年後是換工作的最好時間點，但也有三成四擔心想換工作的人太多，反而更難找工作。五成六上班族會騎驢找馬，有八成二會提前一個月以上佈局，甚至有一成六會提前三個月，因此接下來到明年初的農曆年，將會是跳槽求職的高峰期。
yes123指出，雖然景氣復甦，工作機會多，求職者考量領到年終獎金再跳槽，但企業若急需人才，未必願意等待，且年後工作多，競爭者眾，過年前跳槽比過年後容易，建議求職者現在就開始行動。
（自由時報記者鍾麗華）
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