First-time jobseekers who are soon to graduate with a bachelor’s or master’s degree, or leave military conscription, have listed jobs in tourism as their top target and on average are seeking a starting salary of NT$32,000, online job bank yes123 said on Friday.
The job bank said that 32.7 percent of 1,270 respondents to a survey were seeking jobs in the lodging, leisure, and food and beverage industry.
While 31.6 percent were hoping to find work in the information technology sector, 30.6 percent were eyeing jobs in the financial insurance and accounting industry, the survey showed.
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Other sectors that jobseekers targeted included retail, wholesale and trading, and mass communication, public relations and advertising, it said.
Bingo Yang (楊宗斌), a spokesman for yes123, said that with COVID-19 restrictions eased, restaurants and hotels urgently need new staff to fill job openings with relatively low requirements.
The entry threshold for jobs in the financial and information technology sectors is normally higher, but salaries are often better, Yang said.
Graduates born after 2000 tend to jump into the job market soon after graduating instead of pursuing higher education, with some even offered a job before leaving university, he said.
Only 6.9 percent of respondents said they wanted to pursue another degree, rather than find a job, the survey showed.
It said that 67.2 percent had already started looking for a job, compared with 64.4 percent last year and 62.7 percent in 2021.
The figures suggest that many new graduates sense escalating competition in the job market, especially given the effects of the pandemic on the economy, Yang said.
The average starting salary expectation was NT$32,030, up NT$333, or 1.1 percent, from last year, the survey showed.
Employers were willing to offer an average of NT$30,471 as a starting salary for those with a bachelor’s degree, and NT$33,625 on average for those with a master’s degree, it said.
The survey, which was conducted from May 10 to Tuesday, collected questionnaires from 943 new graduates holding a bachelor’s degree and 327 with a master’s degree. It had a confidence level of 95 percent and a margin of error of 2.75 percentage points.
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