Why Use CakeResume To Do Direct Sourcing for IT Talents in Taiwan

Recruiting Software Engineers by CakeResume

Gareth Cheng
5 min readDec 5, 2019

Hiring Tech Talent In Taiwan

Just over a year ago, Google announced it would hire 300 additional people in Taiwan and train 5,000 students in AI. Now Google is coming back for more. They are planning to build their new suburban Taipei office park next year, targeting to double its current staffing level of 2,000 people.

In addition to Google’s massive hiring plan, tech giants such as IBM and Microsoft also picked Taiwan as their next destination to grow its high tech business and to develop their AI R&D centers.

Taiwan offers quality engineers with a reasonable cost structure

The reason why these companies are hiring in Taiwan is quite apparent. Taiwan has a reasonable cost structure, with reasonable offerings to tech companies in terms of utilities, rentals and labor costs. Above all, Taiwan has top-quality engineering talent that has earned a reputation for being more loyal and stable.

Taiwan is ranked as 12th Best Country For Business by Forbes

According to Forbes’ List of Best Countries for Business (Global), Taiwan is ranked in 12th place, only trailing economic rivals Hong Kong and Singapore as the third-best country for business within the region.

In Forbes’ Report, it credited Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy, as well as plans for joining the Trans-Pacific Partnerships and bilateral trade deals, increasing Taiwan’s total exports by 11 percent in 2017.

Another perk for doing business in Taiwan is that you can fly within four hours to anywhere else in East Asia, giving you the opportunity to scale up your business even faster 🚀

Search For IT Talents On CakeResume

Firstly, what is CakeResume?

CakeResume is the world’s top online resume builder and Taiwan’s largest IT talent pool. We help companies of all sizes, ranging from tech to finance, to scale up their business by providing top-notch recruitment solutions.

CakeResume Talent Distribution

Up till now(Dec/2019), we have over 350,000 quality talents that have built a CakeResume in our database. As for talent distribution, please refer to the data presented below:

  • Engineering: 38.5%
    web/app, data, security, DevOps, AI, blockchain
  • Design: 32.7%
    UI/UX, research, graphics, animation
  • Marketing/BD/PM/Sales: 26.6%
    digital marketing, BD, sales, administration

Public Profiles On CakeResume:

Top-Quality Talent Searching Tool 🔍

Google helps you to search for the best content, just as CakeResume empowers your company to source for the best IT talent! With hundreds of thousands of active job seekers on CakeResume, you can easily find the right talent via keywords, seniority, and job seeking status.

Join Yahoo, Trend Micro, and many more to use CakeResume’s Talent Search Engine to scale up your business quickly!

Try it out: https://www.cakeresume.com/search

Hear What Our Happy Customers Have To Say 😊

Top-Quality And Active Jobseekers

Aside from being the largest IT talent pool in Taiwan with many new tech & digital talents joining every day, the main reason companies are fond of using CakeResume to search for talents is because of the quality of the candidates here.

We are proud to say that the people who use CakeResume are active and top-quality job seekers. The willingness to build and spend time to treat their resume as a personal website shows that they are putting in extra effort to get themselves to the next level, sending a message that they take their career seriously and are always staying active in the job market.

Active Candidates Have A Stronger Desire To Succeed

Also, active candidates have a stronger desire to succeed when hired. The Polling Company survey found that 51% of recruiters and 70% of talent acquisition leaders say active candidates have better motivational drive than passive candidates.

Staying active in the job market doesn’t mean the candidate is disloyal or anything bad. Usually, this type of person is always seeking new challenges and constantly improving themselves. They are the top-quality talents!

It’s More Expensive to Recruit People Who Are Considered Passive

The reason that your business should be recruiting active job seekers is that doing so cuts your hiring costs significantly.

When you have to convince someone to even consider your job opportunity, it can get pretty expensive. Research from Indeed reveals that 87% of talent professionals say it’s the same or more expensive to recruit passive candidates.

In addition to recruiter labor costs and expenses, candidates that aren’t looking for a new job often expect to be paid more when they’re contacted by a recruiter about an opportunity.

28% of employed active candidates expect a salary increase of at least 15% to accept a new job, and that jumps to 32% for employed passive candidates.

At CakeResume, we help companies of all sizes to scale up their business by providing top-quality talents. If you would love to learn more about technical recruiting, especially in the software industry, please don’t hesitate to contact me: gareth.cheng@cakeresume.com

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