There were already hundreds of employment service agencies in Taiwan, including two largest media companies, namely, the China Times and the United Daily. It seemed unnecessary to add one more human resources service company. But, in terms of the service quality, those existing employment service agencies in Taiwan could not provide modern, systematic, and humanized service to satisfy the needs of enterprises or employees. Employment service is indispensable in the modern society, but it was the least efficient and the least economical. Generally speaking, enterprises wishing to recruit talents must pay expensive fees for advertisement on the classified section (one employment ad of 5 square centimeters costs over 10 thousand NT dollars). Still, this method cannot guarantee that finding of suitable personnel. For job seekers, they can only take their chances, reading tens of pages of classified ads which are small, dense, not categorized and lacking detailed descriptions of the job contents and the company profiles, and then sending out numerous resumes with little hope for success. In Taiwan, an environment with inadequate employment service, plus an unsound social welfare system means that people must continuously look for jobs, change jobs, and live in the fear of losing their jobs throughout most of our lifetime. Therefore, it was imperative to provide the people in Taiwan with a more economic, interactive, and technology-enhanced human resources service.

In 1994 summer, Mr. Rocky Yang was working in a leading computer company as overseas Marketing Director. This was a company that he started with his partners after returning from overseas posting in Europe. Mr. Yang deeply felt the cultural differences between Europe/America and Taiwan. In Europe and America, people show respect for each other much more so than in Taiwan. Driven by his personal ambition and his concern for the society, Mr. Yang gave up his successful business and began to prepare for a new business. After much searching and experimentation, he founded 104 Job Bank web-site in February, 1996.

Since 1996 when it was founded, 104 Job Bank has insisted on pursuing the same goal. We constantly provide instruction and communication to our customers. At the same time, we are also learning from the contact and interaction with them, in order to provide better service. Presently, 104 Job Bank is the largest web-site for human resources service in Taiwan. Take July 2000 for example, we provided employment service for over 10 thousand enterprises. The daily page-views average over 1.95 million.

104 Job Bank receives over 2,500 new resumes per day. The size of our database of job seekers has exceeded 570,000. We provide approximately 71,000 resumes and 55,000 job opportunities for people to search online.

With 104 Job Bank's huge database of employers and employees, we often provide information to the media on up-to-date employment market conditions. In addition to regularly presenting the report on employment market to the media every month, 104 Job Bank also provides job seekers with the most abundant and detailed information on Taiwan's job market.