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Reporter Dai Yuxiang / Taipei Report
The Lausanne School of Management (IMD) in Switzerland published the “IMD World Talent Ranking 2020” (IMD World Talent Ranking 2020) Among the 63 countries evaluated, Taiwan ranked 20th, same as last year. In Asia, Taiwan is in third place, only surpassed by Singapore (ninth), Hong Kong (14), better than South Korea (31), Japan (38) and China (40).
▲ The Swiss Lausanne Management Institute (IMD) published the “IMD 2020 Global Talent Ranking Report”, which ranks 20th out of 63 countries evaluated. (Image / recovered from unsplash)
IMD divides the talent report metrics into three categories: “Talent Investment and Development,” “Talent Attraction and Retention,” and “Talent Preparation.” Among them, “Talent Attraction and Retention” has risen to 26th place, an improvement over last year. “Investment and development talent” (# 25) and “talent readiness” (# 15) fell 1 and 3 respectively.
● “Attracting and Retaining Talent” was promoted from 29-26 last year.
According to the National Development Council, this category of indicators is to compare a country’s efforts to attract and retain talent, and is divided into 11 detailed indicators. The increase in the ranking is mainly due to the substantial increase in the “attractiveness of foreign technical talents” in 14 (No. 34), which shows that the government has implemented the “Law of Hiring and Employment of Foreign Professionals” since 2018 , and the effect of actively strengthening the hiring policy has been effective. From this year through October, the total number of golden job cards issued has reached nearly 1,000, 1.8 times the number of 541 issued in the past two years. The total number has exceeded 1,500, successfully attracting high-level foreign talent in various key fields to Taiwan.
Additionally, two items including “quality of life” and “employee morale” improved by 8 and 4 respectively, reflecting Taiwan’s epidemic prevention effectiveness and continued government efforts to improve the environment to retain talent. .
● “Investment and development talent” decreased slightly by 1 and remained in the top 3 in Asia.
According to the National Development Council, “Talent Investment and Development” mainly assesses the level of national investment in talent and is divided into 8 detailed indicators. Among them, “Sanitation and healthy environment” is Taiwan’s top project, ranking fifth in the world, an improvement of 1 place from last year, indicating that the public and medical environmental hygiene standards of Taiwan are excellent, and also reflects the prevention and control of Wuhan pneumonia (COVID-19, new corona pneumonia). The excellent performance.
In addition, three items, including “Expenditure on public education”, “Primary education teacher-student ratio” and “Secondary education teacher-student ratio” improved 1, 1 and 7 respectively, which indicates that the government has promoted the national basic education for 12 years. Attach importance to employee training “increased by two, demonstrating the company’s investment and emphasis on human capital.
Only one “learning system” has regressed in this category. Although the government continues to promote industry-university cooperation and construction-education cooperation, it shows that in response to future industry development and talent needs, the administrative team still has room to strengthen and work Lasted.
● “Talent Readiness” dropped by 3 and still remains among the top 15 in the world.
The National Development Council stated that “talent preparation” is a measure of the adequacy of a country’s human resources, divided into 12 detailed indicators. Among them, “International experience of managers”, “Excellent managers” and “Language talents meet the needs of companies” have improved in 2, 3 and 7 respectively, which shows that the government is committed to promoting the internationalization of talents and the implementation of bilingual national policies has shown initial results. .
In addition, the two headings “primary and secondary education systems meet the needs of a competitive economy” and “university education meet the needs of a competitive economy” have improved in 11 and 7 respectively. It is obvious that the government has invested resources to promote educational reforms at all levels.
Taiwan’s top projects in this category of indicators, “Educational Assessment (National Research Center PISA)” and “Emphasis on Science Education”, have decreased by 6 and 2. Among them, PISA is the OECD targeting 79 countries members every 3 years. According to the students’ test, Taiwan has always been in the forefront. However, in recent years, countries like Estonia and China have caught up and are worthy of attention. Additionally, the proportion of college graduates in the field of science and STEM education has fallen from 33.2% last year to 32.9% this year. Talent cultivation needs to strengthen strength.
▲ President Tsai Ing-wen revealed in his inaugural speech 520: The key to national competitiveness is talent. (Photo / Provided by the Presidential Palace)
President Tsai Ing-wen revealed in his inaugural address 520: The key to national competitiveness is talent. In order to make Taiwan an important center for talent gathering and strengthen the cultivation and recruitment of bilingual and digital talents, the National Development Council stated that it has released the report “Key Talent Recruitment and Cultivation Strategy” to the Executive Yuan, and will work with the relevant ministries to fully implement “The three strategies of” cultivating local digital talents “,” recruiting key international talents “and” deepening bilingual capacity “actively cultivate and recruit domestic and foreign professionals.
The National Development Council stated that this IMD talent report can be used as a reference for Taiwan. In the future, the National Development Council will follow the dean’s instructions and cooperate with various ministries to actively implement the three main talent strategies, especially the gradual expansion of STEM, the establishment of semiconductor universities, etc., to boost the industry Grow and promote economic development.
▲ Analysis of the ranking analysis table of the Talent Competitiveness Index of Taiwan over the years. (Photo / provided by the National Development Council)
▲ The 2020 Talent Competitiveness Leaderboard of Taiwan and neighboring Asian countries. (Photo / provided by the National Development Council)
