There are currently 276,000 job openings across Taiwan, according to a survey released by the Ministry of Labor today, with the manufacturing sector reporting the most vacancies at 92,000.
Due to labor shortages influenced by Taiwan’s declining birthrate as well as a lack of relevant data, the ministry launched its first labor shortage survey in April, incorporating data on workforce inflow and outflow across industries.
There were 276,000 job openings across industrial and service sectors as of the end of March, a vacancy rate of 3.1 percent, according to the survey results released today.
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The industrial sector accounted for 114,000 or 41.3 percent of these openings, while the service sector accounted for 162,000 or 58.7 percent, with vacancy rates of 3.2 and 3.1 percent respectively, the survey showed.
Breaking down by industry, manufacturing had the most job vacancies with 92,000, accounting for 33.5 percent of the total.
Wholesale and retail followed with 47,000, or 16.9 percent, and accommodation and food services ranked third with 25,000, or 9.1 percent.
These three sectors together accounted for nearly 60 percent of total job openings.
In addition, the construction, healthcare and social work industries all had more than 16,000 job openings.
Among major industries, the highest vacancy rates were in the accommodation and food services at 4.4 percent; arts, entertainment and recreation at 4 percent; construction at 3 percent; and transportation and storage, as well as publishing, audiovisual and information and communications at 3.3 percent.
Of the 276,000 total job openings, 253,000 were for full-time positions, while 23,000 were for part-time jobs, accounting for 91.7 and 8.3 percent of the total respectively.
Of the full-time job vacancies, professional positions topped the list with 65,000 vacancies, accounting for 25.7 percent.
Next were skilled machinery operators and assemblers with 60,000 vacancies, or 23.8 percent, followed by technicians and assistant professionals with 53,000 vacancies, or 20.8 percent.
The survey found that the average recruitment period for job vacancies was three-and-a-half months.
Looking at recruitment time by job category, skilled machinery operators and assemblers, as well as entry-level technicians and laborers, had longer average recruitment periods of 4.1 months and four months respectively, while service and sales workers averaged 3.7 months.
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