Talent-strapped Taiwan seeks 200,000 overseas students

Labour-strapped Taiwan is looking for 20,000 top-level ‘special’ professionals and 200,000 overseas university students as part of a wider recruitment target aimed at filling jobs amid its population decline, writes Ralph Jennings for South China Morning Post.

Taipei said in September that it was looking to attract 400,000 foreign workers by 2030, but it is competing with the likes of Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and South Korea, which are also all facing shrinking local workforces due to low birth rates.

The 20,000 special professionals would come as ‘innovators’ or Silicon Valley ‘heavyweights’, the National Development Council said on Tuesday 31 January as it confirmed that it had already recruited over 10,000 by December. A segment of the 400,000 overall goal, the special professionals would qualify for work in semiconductors, blockchain, finance and offshore wind power, the statement said.
Full report on the South China Morning Post site