Taiwan Gold Card Community
This online group is a community of Gold Card Holders supporting each other in the application process, moving process, and integration. Gold card holders is for anyone who wants to live and work in Taiwan with the right set of requirements. “The Taiwan Employment Gold Card is a 4-in-1 card, that includes a resident visa, work permit, Alien Resident Certificate (ARC), and re-entry permit, which allows you to leave and re-enter Taiwan multiple times over the course of 1-3 years,” states ROC Taiwan.
It seems like a lot of them are foreigners or overseas Taiwanese who came back to work and live in Taiwan. There’s a lot of good perspective, especially in the Gold Card Holders section for FAQs. They go over work, health insurance, family, renewal, banking, and more.
To join the group, it’s pretty easy. On the website itself, it states, “We meet regularly through monthly events. If you have the Employment Gold Card and want to be part to the community, feel free to fill the Form. If you want to contribute your profile here, please use the Form.” The site itself is also just maintained by Gold Card Holders and is not affiliated with any government departments. To reach a government entity, you can work with the Taiwan Gold Card Visa office instead.
Talent Taiwan
Last year in November, the National Development Council (NDC) held a press conference to launch the International Talent Taiwan Office. This was in efforts to expand the Taiwan Gold Card Office to the International Talent Taiwan Office and provide one-stop services to all foreign professional talent and their dependents in Taiwan. In addition to dedicated consulting services in-person, by phone, and online, a single national level portal will be implemented in the future to assist international talent to Taiwan. The platform helps you match to the correct visa, ie visiting, for business, study, startups, and more. You can email them for more details: help@talent.nat.gov.tw
CakeResume | International Job Search & Recruitment Platform
Similar to Glassdoor.com, CakeResume is a great job search platform and resume builder. What I’ve found with other Taiwanese job platforms is that they are usually disorganized, clunky, and hard to follow because it’s all in traditional Chinese. I found them earlier this year due to my interest in tech markets abroad. CakeResume offers a plethora of resources, including a CV builder, industry articles, portfolio builders, and talent search solutions for companies.
CakeResume, used by tech companies like Google, L’Oréal and TSMC to find new talent. Last year, they announced that they have raised $5 million in Series A funding.
According to Tech Crunch, “The round was led by returning investor Mynavi, one of Japan’s largest human resources companies, and will be used to expand in countries like Indonesia, Vietnam and India. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, CakeResume currently has 5 million users around the world, and more than 7,000 clients who use it to source job candidates.”
CareerJet
Careerjet is a job search engine designed to make the process of finding a job on the internet easier for the user. It currently boasts over 95,000 job listings in Taiwan, ranging from manufacturing to English speaking related to tech. I personally haven’t used this job platform myself, so use with due diligence and wariness for scams in case.
Join a Taiwan Affiliated Professional Group
TACL – Taiwanese American Professionals (TAP) – TAP’s mission is to enhance the Taiwanese-American community by networking individuals interested in professional and career development.
TAP-SF – Taiwanese American Professionals, San Francisco Chapter. From professional development to community service, there’s something at TAP-SF for everyone.
Young TAITA – Young TAITA, a sub-group of TAITA, is a Taiwanese American professional organization that aims to help young Taiwanese and Taiwanese Americans to develop their careers, cultivate entrepreneurship, and build professional networks in Silicon Valley.
YouTube has great resources
I would also look at interviews on YouTube to get the low down on what’s happening in the Taiwan job market. See below as an example. A popular language coach interviews a foreigner in Taiwan on how he was able to get a product manager role while learning Mandarin.
