Taiwan: The first choice of the education/employment for global semiconductor talents
Taiwan has been the key stronghold for the international semiconductor industry. Based on its advantages of the professional division of labor and comprehensive supply chain, the total value of the Taiwanese semiconductor industry is estimated to reach NTD 4.88 trillion in 2022, not only boosting Taiwan’s GDP to surpass Japan and Korea but also ranking top in Eastern Asia region for the first time, making it the world’s second-largest semiconductor supplier. Indeed, such achievements are fully owed to Taiwanese manufacturers of IC design, manufacturing, and assembly/testing, who have been continuously striving for high productivity, high market share, and high added value. In recent years, as the development of the semiconductor industry is marked as a key focus for the Taiwanese government, it has been proactively strengthening the resilience of the semiconductor industry supply chain, aiming to develop Taiwan into the Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Center and the Advanced Manufacturing Center of Asia, to perfect a comprehensive semiconductor ecosystem in Taiwan.
The Taiwanese government has been actively promoting technological development and talent cultivation for the semiconductor industry to enhance forward-looking R&D technologies and optimize the existing employment and living conditions, anticipating the establishment of the world’s most profound and comprehensive semiconductor industry base in Taiwan, allowing all international talents to join Taiwanese semiconductor enterprises and expand their full expertise. In addition, Taiwan also plans to offer the finest academic-industrial cooperation programs and great scholarships for international students interested in the field. By applying to the semiconductor-related academies or bachelor programs provided by the Taiwanese higher education system, students are expected to complete formal education and obtain degrees, becoming the ready-to-fight force for the Taiwanese semiconductor industry.
To attract and retain international talents to study and work in Taiwan, the Taiwanese government promulgated the “Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals” which refined the visa, job, and residence requirements for foreign professionals and also improves insurance, tax, and pension conditions. It also loosens the “regulations for relative dependency”, offering a further guarantee for the education right of children of foreign residences, hoping that a better system can successfully attract more international talents to work in Taiwan.
In recent years, as digital technology evolvements have driven the explosive growth of the semiconductor industry, talent sufficiency has become the key factor for securing international competitive advantage. Challenged by the global competition to retain outstanding talents, the Industrial Development Bureau of MOEA (IDB) has entrusted the Institute for Information Industry (III) to establish the “International Academic-Industrial Exchange Alliance” in which the government is responsible to set up the promotion mechanism, connect enterprises’ demands with academic resources precisely, and contribute to a three-win scenario with the academic-industrial-governmental collaboration. This includes ensuring student supply for the colleges, talents for the industry, and guarantees for the students, solving the crisis of talent shortage. To meet the demand for talent in the Taiwanese semiconductor industry, the IDB is hosting the “Southeast Asia Semiconductor Recruitment Team” this year (2023). Together with renowned semiconductor enterprises and the best semiconductor academies in Taiwan, the IDB will visit the top engineering academies in Southeast Asia and promote the three international talent recruitment methods – business matching programs, academic seminars and projects, and formal education – to attract outstanding overseas engineering talents to Taiwan. Such processes also involve recruitment sessions and face-to-face discussions, allowing representatives of Taiwan to highlight the semiconductor curriculum and advantages of career opportunities in Taiwan and create more chances to interact with the ideal semiconductor talents in person. It is anticipated that such means will achieve decent progress in matching and recruiting foreign talents.
The recruitment delegation consists of multiple Taiwanese semiconductor companies and universities interviewing the students in Universiti Malaya in March
The first International Semiconductor Talent Recruit Event, held in the 6 top universities of Singapore and Malaysia such as National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), successfully brought the Taiwanese semiconductor companies and universities face to face with the international talents as well as promoted Taiwan’s working and learning advantages in the field of semiconductor. Students whether undergraduate or postgraduate all eagerly seized the opportunity and signed up for the campus interview sessions. The events eventually host more than 300 interviews and aroused positive feedback from both the Malaysia-Singapore partner universities and Taiwan representatives, reaffirming its effectiveness of international talent matching.
The second semiconductor recruitment sessions will soon be held on June 13rd – 15th, 2023, targeting the outstanding semiconductor talents of top universities in Philippines. The 10 participating semiconductor enterprises include ASE, ChipMOS, OSE, Ardentec and WALTON, while the participating top Taiwanese semiconductor colleges and universities are NTU, NYCU, NCKU, NSYSU and NTUT. By holding the semiconductor talent recruit events, it creates a solid basis for establishing a further long-term collaboration, and such International Academic-Industrial Exchange Alliance also expands the database of international talents as well as deepens the friendship between Taiwan and the Southeast Asia.
For more information, please refer to the recruit event website: https://www.iei.org.tw/iei_talent/public/en/iei_talent_Reg
Event Name: 2023 Semiconductor Southeast Asia Philippines Recruitment Team of the Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA
Event Date: June 13rd – 15th, 2023
Registration Link: https://www.iei.org.tw/iei_talent/public/en/iei_talent_Reg (Please register before 2023 June 2nd)
Advisory unit: Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA
Organizing unit: Intelligent Electronics Institute (IDB) and Intelligent Electronics Talents Application Development and Promotion Project
Executing unit: Institute of Information Industry (III) and the Southern Taiwan Industry Promotion Center (STIPC)
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