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Why was 104 Job Bank founded?

Why was 104 Job Bank founded? Is it to exploit the commercial opportunity of the internet, or to participate in the classified market for job listing worth billions of NT dollars in Taiwan? These could well be intentions of other internet services or employment agencies, but reasons above had nothing to do with the purpose for founding of the 104 Job Bank.

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.

The Humanized Access for Employment:

"We take your employment as our own business." 104 Job Bank's goal is "To give Taiwan a humanized employment service". We believe that employment service is not only a referral service. If we cannot understand the needs of the enterprises which are eagerly looking for talents, of the people who want to change jobs, the human resources service is merely a game of self-deception. No human resources services in Taiwan had this perspective. Thus, 104 Job Bank was founded, because Mr. Yang realized this need in our society. The Internet, in this case, is just the tool used to provide this humanized service.

The Largest Web site for Human Resources Service in Taiwan:

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 3,500 new resumes per day. The size of our database of job seekers has exceeded 1500,000. We provide approximately 110,000 resumes and 70,000 job opportunities for people to search online.

The 104 Job Bank-The Spokesperson Employment

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.

The 104 Job Bank-Provides not only Opportunities,but also Professional Services for Career Planning

104Job Bank has become not only a web-site of job listings, but also a professional provider of human resources service. We are working hard to provide the latest situation and information of employment market to job seekers. Besides www.104.com.tw, we also operate the 104Learn.com.tw, where the information about further studies can be easily obtained; the 104Heart.com.tw, which assists people to look for job orientation; the Job Safety Web, which provides information to protect employees' job rights and benefits; the 104Sense.com.tw, which provides an access for self-study, and the 104Cafe.com.tw, where employees can exchange ideas. Thereafter, we will present other new services based on the theme of career planning.