Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/22
By: Pan Tzu-yu and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, July 22 (CNA) First-time job seekers in Taiwan usually take an average of
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26 weeks to secure a job, according to data released by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).
Due to a lack of experience, first-time job hunters are likely to take longer to find a job than people who have worked before, said Pan Ning-hsin (潘寧馨), deputy director of the DGBAS’s census department.
In 2017, Pan said, people with work experience were taking 23.7 weeks to land a job, while first-time job seekers were taking 26 weeks on average.
Pan said analysis of the data over the past three years found that half a year is roughly the normal time it takes for first-time job seekers to gain employment.
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