Cultivating talent and increasing valued-added human capital from Taiwan’s academic and industrial sectors are central planks in a series of initiatives aimed at boosting national competitiveness unveiled Dec. 3 by the ROC Cabinet.
“A combination of policy measures will be employed to establish a national talent bank in the next 10 years, with a focus on making best use of existing human resources and cultivating talent to meet industrial needs,” Premier Jiang Yi-huah said.
Jiang, who made the remarks at a Cabinet meeting on national talent policy, said the latest undertaking is aimed at addressing the education-employment gap and supply-demand imbalance.
“These are the biggest challenges when it comes to managing human resources and the reason for the coexistence of unemployment and labor shortages in the job market.”
The premier said the Ministry of Education’s white paper serves as a 10-year blueprint for national talent cultivation, centering on improving basic education, strengthening vocational training and promoting tertiary education internationalization and global human resource planning.
Featuring 16 strategies and 39 actions plans, the initiative will help train personnel for all walks of life and increase their global mobility, he added.
Regarding the Council for Economic Planning and Development’s plan to develop value-added human resource training industry, Jiang said the initiative follows CEPD studies indicating that Taiwan is facing shortages of high- and low-level workers, while there is an excess of mid-level staff.
“The gap in talent matching between employers and jobseekers is the main reason for the problem, highlighting the necessity and importance of developing value-added training for the mid-level workforce,” the premier said, adding that the CEPD is planning to boost training resources supply, increase demand and create an environment suitable for training services development.
To achieve this goal, Jiang said the government will strengthen private job training centers; help private schools transform into vocational training institutions; encourage individual investment in human resources; assist companies cultivate talent; establish a supply-demand dialogue mechanism; set up a job training business registration platform; promote competence standards and certification system; as well as revise related regulations. (RC-JSM)
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