How to become an Employment Agent or Contractor

Official title: Employment Agents and Contractors

Works in job placement, recruitment agency services and labour contracting.

Main tasks

• Help job seekers find work or place them in jobs
• Find staff for vacant positions on behalf of employers
• Discuss the skills and qualities needed for hired or contract staff with businesses, and sign contracts and employment guarantees that meet legal requirements
• Find workers with specialist skills

Ways in

• Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: management and administration (0413). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 51, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 31, five-year junior college (五專) 4, two-year junior college (二專) 11. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.; Technician certificate: Employment services. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 195 就業服務. Tested at grade B (乙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Average pay: NT$570,000 a year
• Demand for Business and administration jobs is projected at about 1,465,000 in 2024 and about 1,502,000 in 2030. (+2.5%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become an Employment Agent or Contractor?

Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme; Technician certificate: Employment services.

How much does an Employment Agent or Contractor earn in Taiwan?

Average pay is NT$570,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).

Is an Employment Agent or Contractor a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change 2.5% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of an Employment Agent or Contractor?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026