AU Optronics, Innolux and MediaTek of Taiwan Plan to Hire 6,000-plus Workers in 2015

AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), Innolux Corp., MediaTek Inc., Acer Inc., and Asustek Computer Inc. of Taiwan have announced total recruitment of over 6,000 workers this year, with LCD-panel giants AUO and Innolux needing a combined 3,500 engineers, chip design house MediaTek some 2,000 engineers, and branded PC vendors Acer and Asustek together offering over 1,100 jobs.

Innolux will recruit 2,000 engineers in electronic, electrical, chemical and automation fields to cope with the expected resignation uptick after the Chinese New Year. The company has held  many job fairs at its factory in Tainan and will organize similar activities in schools in March and April.

Innolux executives admit to needing this year at least an additional 1,500 skilled workers and 500 engineers, with the former requiring above-high- school and latter to have bachelor's or higher backgrounds.

To acquire quality talents, the company offers bachelor degree engineers base salary of NT$37,000 (US$1,193), master's degree engineers NT$45,000 (US$1,451), and skilled workers NT$26,000 (US$838) per month.

AUO is hiring 1,500 engineers, including 100 for its sixth-generation LCD factory in Kunshan,  China, as part of its plan to strengthen R&D might and global presence.

According to AUO executives, the company will train Taiwanese expatriate engineers in China to minimize adaptation difficulty.

AUO will hold four days of job fairs in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and Taichung before the Chinese New Year.

MediaTek, currently Taiwan's No.1 chip design house by revenue, is offering 2,000 jobs in agreement with its plan to further boost its revenue this year. The company had employees in excess of 10,000 last year after taking on 2,600 engineers.

Acer and Asustek are adding talents to their staff for their plan to expand their share in the rising market of Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-based service, and big data.

Acer has begun transforming itself into a PC company placing importance both to hardware-software and service from a PC maker since June last year, when the company inaugurated an ambitious cloud-service plan called “Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC)”.

Acer Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jason Chen points out that the BYOC-based applications will grow more prominent this year to become the company's new direction for presence. The company has invited Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Taiwan's No.1 telecom service provider, to co-develop a cloud-based telecom platform.

Acer needs more talents to develop its mobile-computing and cloud-computing applications.

(KL)