Most jobseekers are interested in joining tech companies even though global technology titans are shedding headcounts to cope with a market downcycle, the online 1111 Job Bank (1111人力銀行) said yesterday.
The job bank said it made the observation after an internal survey found that 58.8 percent of respondents intend to work for tech companies and 14 percent have landed positions.
That means almost 73 percent favored jobs in the tech sector, with only 27.2 percent looking for occupations in other fields, the survey showed.
Photo: Tsai Ya-hua, Taipei Times
The results came even though global technology firms are downsizing payrolls and local companies in their supply chains are going through inventory corrections, it said.
High salaries and compensation packages were the main reason for the occupation preference at 72.3 percent, followed by better perks at 53.2 percent, a rosy outlook for the sector at 49.5 percent and expectations of year-end bonuses at 39.4 percent, it said, adding that upward mobility also played an important role at 19.1 percent.
The job preference appears unaffected by the fact that global technology firms laid off 168,582 people in the first quarter, more than for the whole of last year, 1111 Job Bank said.
Still, there are 674,000 vacant positions available in Taiwan, with 70,000 of them in the tech sector, a 16.6 percent advance compared with three months earlier, the job bank said.
The data show that demand for personnel remains strong in the technology industry, it said.
Semiconductor business between Taiwan and the US is a “win-win” model for both sides given the high level of complementarity, the government said yesterday responding to tariff threats from US President Donald Trump. Home to the world’s largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), Taiwan is a key link in the global technology supply chain for companies such as Apple Inc and Nvidia Corp. Trump said on Monday he plans to impose tariffs on imported chips, pharmaceuticals and steel in an effort to get the producers to make them in the US. “Taiwan and the US semiconductor and other technology industries
SMALL AND EFFICIENT: The Chinese AI app’s initial success has spurred worries in the US that its tech giants’ massive AI spending needs re-evaluation, a market strategist said Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek’s (深度求索) eponymous AI assistant rocketed to the top of Apple Inc’s iPhone download charts, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US’ technological dominance. The app’s underlying AI model is widely seen as competitive with OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc’s latest. Its claim that it cost much less to train and develop triggered share moves across Asia’s supply chain. Chinese tech firms linked to DeepSeek, such as Iflytek Co (科大訊飛), surged yesterday, while chipmaking tool makers like Advantest Corp slumped on the potential threat to demand for Nvidia Corp’s AI accelerators. US stock
The US Federal Reserve is expected to announce a pause in rate cuts on Wednesday, as policymakers look to continue tackling inflation under close and vocal scrutiny from US President Donald Trump. The Fed cut its key lending rate by a full percentage point in the final four months of last year and indicated it would move more cautiously going forward amid an uptick in inflation away from its long-term target of 2 percent. “I think they will do nothing, and I think they should do nothing,” Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis former president Jim Bullard said. “I think the
SUBSIDIES: The nominee for commerce secretary indicated the Trump administration wants to put its stamp on the plan, but not unravel it entirely US President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency in charge of a US$52 billion semiconductor subsidy program declined to give it unqualified support, raising questions about the disbursement of funds to companies like Intel Corp and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電). “I can’t say that I can honor something I haven’t read,” Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, said of the binding CHIPS and Science Act awards in a confirmation hearing on Wednesday. “To the extent monies have been disbursed, I would commit to rigorously enforcing documents that have been signed by those companies to make sure we get
RSS