Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/16
By: Yu Hsiao-han and Frances Huang 

Taipei, March 16 (CNA) As a result of economic recovery and an increase in the number of visitors to Taiwan from Southeast Asian and Northeast Asian countries, the local tourism and catering industries currently have about 16,000 job openings, the Ministry of Labor (MOL) said Friday.

According to the MOL, employers in the two sectors have signed up with the online recruitment platform TaiwanJobs, operated by the ministry’s Workforce Development Agency (WDA), offering about 16,000 jobs.

The MOL said the new jobs include chefs, waiters and waitresses, reception personnel, hotel housekeepers as well as administrative staff positions.

The recovering local economy has provided a major boost to manpower needs in the two sectors, the MOI said.    [FULL  STORY]