I’m giving you a lot of free hard-earned advice here The main uploaders would not be foreigners, but Taiwanese who want to show their English ability in order to get hired by multinationals or large Taiwanese firms. There is almost zilch demand for foreign employees in Taiwan, people here are well educated and work harder for less. There are also very few multinational regional offices here. There are a tonne in China or Singapore, but that market is saturated already. So you need a niche or an ‘edge’, take your pick. The main users are local educated people, they won’t pay you for using though. So can you get employers to pay for a small database compared to the multi million database of 104.com.tw?
And those Taiwanese 'aint daft. They post their resumes – in English and Chinese – on the sites that potential employers look at. That would be 1111 Job Bank and 104 Job Bank.
You’re wasting your time. Do you even have any idea at all about the market you’re thinking of failing to enter?
You’re trying to reinvent the wheel, except yours is made of wood with an iron rim, but you’re hoping to compete with companies who have composite racing slicks.
PLUS you are missing a very important point. Its not easy to get a decent job in Asia. Some of us got lucky and we are hanging on for dear life trying not to go home. We build up our contacts and local knowledge for the security of being one of the few - and you want to OPEN THE DOOR? Are you mad?
Forget being an employee here in Asia. At best you end up with a low-paying dead end job. The way to make it here in Asia is to be your own boss.
What we foreigners should do is pool our resources and start a development/investment company developing things like loft apartments, convenience stores, tech parks/office space geared towards foreigners and foreign companies, high-end fooderies and agricultural products, venture capitalization etc.
It would be like Berkshire-Hathaway for expats with equity shares priced at, say, NT$1,000,000.
I’ve had good luck on my own but would have even more leverage as a member of a group of aggressive, shrewd, bilingual, experienced entrepreneurs with good contacts here in Asia.
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That’s not entirely true, there are well paid jobs here but usually with international companies. But practically it’s hard to get these type of opportunities and they work you to the bone. The best choice is indeed to have your own business.
As for development, it’s access to credit that is the issue I’d say.
face it MM…taiwanted’s dead…there have been 5 jobs in total this year on it. [/quote]
Well, that’s not true at all, but I get your point. The fact is, it’s not dead, it’s dormant, suffering from neglect. When we get our shit together (and we will get our shit together), we will rock your (online classifieds in Taiwan) world. In the meantime, you’ll just have to make do with what we’ve got. [/quote]
my suggestion is relaunch with a new name…once the perception is fixed that its an empty site it’s as dead as a dodo IMHO…so new name and a fancy relaunch with girls in short skirts, free beer and finger food…
i got my last 2 jobs thru it but neither of those 2 companies will use it anymore…
face it MM…taiwanted’s dead…there have been 5 jobs in total this year on it. [/quote]
Well, that’s not true at all, but I get your point. The fact is, it’s not dead, it’s dormant, suffering from neglect. When we get our shit together (and we will get our shit together), we will rock your (online classifieds in Taiwan) world. In the meantime, you’ll just have to make do with what we’ve got. [/quote]
my suggestion is relaunch with a new name…once the perception is fixed that its an empty site it’s as dead as a dodo IMHO…so new name and a fancy relaunch with girls in short skirts, free beer and finger food…
i got my last 2 jobs thru it but neither of those 2 companies will use it anymore…[/quote]
It’s been a real shame watching the slow death (or lets say “lack of growth”) of Taiwanted. I’ve always had trouble posting stuff on the site and there comes a point when you shrug your shoulders, mumble something along the lines of buggering things senseless and head out on a beer run. Like a lot of people, I was looking forward to it spanking tealit. And it would - eventually - have been a nice way to cover some of the costs of this forum.
That’s a good idea!
[quote=“headhonchoII”][quote=“justme86”]Firstly apologies if this has been mentioned already, could not find anything via the search. I was thinking of developing a Job Board similar to daves esl cafe etc to match western candiates to Asian companies.
Does anyone know of any other similar sites like this or thoughts welcome on this possible endeavour ?[/quote]
Bad idea…take it from someone who has been there and done that! There is not enough market for it.[/quote]
I agree.
Just an example: There is a job board site for Japanese to get jobs in Taiwan. Problems I found with them is that they will keep calling you no matter how many time you refuse their service (annoying). If you try their service, get a job, and start the job; they will require you to pay some fee to them for “helping you get/find a job,” which is unpleasant for job seekers to begin with. Another is language barrier, which most jobs they have “in stock” for them all requires that person to be able to speak Chinese. If you can’t speak Chinese, they will say “sorry, most jobs we have requires you to speak [advanced] Chinese.”
From this example, if you start a Job Board site for Western people to find Jobs in Taiwan, it may end up like this. Some company who signs up for your site may get frustrated with your service due to “poor” or “false advertising” if people who are applying for jobs in their company can’t speak Chinese. This is only my opinion.
Anyone know what this website is? what is the address of the Chinese website for looking for jobs in Chinese? I can’t read it but the missus can…and are they teaching jobs.
1111.com.tw, 104.com.tw, not many teaching jobs but some.