The fifth Mainland Job Fair for Taiwanese Professionals and University Graduates opened on the afternoon of April 10, attracting more nearly 200 Taiwanese students and professionals. On the same day, mainland China’s first service center for Taiwanese talent commenced operation. Xiamen will set out to facilitate the exchange of talent across the Taiwan Straits.
As a key part of the 14th CXMEE, the job fair is co-sponsored by the CXMEE Organizing Committee and the Xiamen Personnel Bureau, and co-organized by the Xiamen Talent Service Center and Taiwan-based Pan-Asia Human Resources Group.
A total of 89 enterprises offer more than 2,000 job openings in 950 different positions at the job fair. Over 90 percent of the job openings are for senior management, marketing, engineering, R&D, technical, investment and banking consultant positions.
As the mainland economy surges forward, Taiwanese residents have displayed an unprecedented interest in mainland jobs. At present, more than 100,000 Taiwanese managerial, economic, trade and technological talents are currently working in Fujian. Over 82 percent of Taiwanese job hunters at the job fair today hold bachelor’s or higher degrees. Qiu Jiawei, a PhD who works as a sales director at a Taiwanese company for an annual salary equivalent to RMB 500,000, is also at the fair. He says that he has full confidence in the mainland’s machinery and electronics industry and is looking for a job in the mainland.
A lot of the children of Taiwanese businesspeople in the mainland also desire to follow their parents’ footsteps to pursue a career in the mainland. Shen Weizhi, who is from Chiayi, Taiwan and currently majoring in marketing at Jimei University, said that he is looking forward to working in Xiamen to help his parents with their business and realize his personal value.
According to Zeng Yiming, a superintendent of Taiwan’s Pan-Asia Human Resources Consulting Firm, many Taiwanese professionals are interested in pursuing a career in the mainland. But it might not be easy for them to do so due to their limited understanding of the mainland’s employment policy and differences in corporate culture. Pan-Asia’s general manager Cai Zongzhi stated that with more and more mainland enterprises investing in Taiwan, there will be new opportunities for Taiwan professionals to work in the mainland.
The Taiwan Talent Service Center, which opened today, will provide referral, entry and exit, certification and accreditation, policy and information consulting services for Taiwanese professionals. The website www.unitedhunter.com, which was launched last year, is dedicated to providing a regular channel for the exchange of senior business professionals across the Taiwan Straits; it offers a comprehensive range of talent services.