Green-collar talent demand reached an eight-year high of an average of more than 21,000 people per month from January to April, with the high-tech industry accounting for the greatest demand of all industries at 22 percent, the latest Green-Collar Job Market Report said.
The Ministry of Environment yesterday published the report on green talent demand data collected for the first half of this year.
The report examined more than 468,000 hiring companies and nearly 9 million jobseekers registered in the database of the 104 Job Bank and analyzed key variables such as job titles, job content and required skills or certificates.
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About 17,000 green-collar jobs, or 77 percent, were available across the six major industries, including high-tech, manufacturing, construction and real estate, trade and distribution, healthcare and sanitation, and business support services such as legal, accounting, consulting, research and development (R&D) or design, the report said.
Of the six major industries, the high-tech industry — including electronics, information technology, software and semiconductors — made up the greatest green talent demand at 22 percent, or more than 4,600 people, likely because the industry is large in scale, tech-intensive, and subject to strict regulations and intense international competition, it said.
In terms of job vacancies, about 10,000 green-collar jobs, or 48 percent, were related to environmental health and safety (EHS), sales, R&D engineering, maintenance and technical services, project and product management, and operators and technicians, the report said.
Of these job types, the demand for EHS-specialist green talent that can assist firms with legal compliance related to net zero commitments accounted for 15 percent, or more than 3,300 vacancies, it said.
The demand for talent with a skill combination of green collar and artificial intelligence (AI) expertise rose by 398 percent to 4,301 vacancies per month on average from January to April over the past eight years, accounting for 19.8 percent of all green-collar job vacancies, up from 14.7 percent in 2018, the report said.
Minister of Environment Peng Chi-ming (彭?明) yesterday said the ministry would step up efforts to train green talent, given that current workforce is insufficient to meet the labor demand.
The integration of AI into green-collar jobs has become imperative, while knowledge-intensive industries showed a strong demand for the introduction of AI to offer net zero solutions, he said.
That reflected the ongoing trend in which more companies engaged in net zero transition by “applying” instead of “developing” AI technology, Peng said.
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