Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/06/03
By: Chiu Po-sheng and Frances Huang

Taipei, June 3 (CNA) About 60 percent of employers in Taiwan are willing to hire first-time jobseekers at a time when many students will graduate and enter the job market, a survey conducted by 1111 Job Bank (1111人力銀行) showed Saturday.

Citing the survey, the job bank said that 60.1 percent of the employers said that they were likely to hire first-time jobseekers this year, up from 56.6 percent in a similar survey conducted last year.

Employers who appeared interested in first-time jobseekers largely came from the service sector, education groups/government agencies, the medical care industry and the agricultural sector.    [FULL  STORY]