Workplace reviews and discussion: 聯成電腦有限公司

Applied for a retail sales position

There was no need to provide a résumé. They printed one from the job bank on-site and also provided a form to fill out:

1. Basic information: national ID number, place of birth, date of birth, marital status, blood type, address, etc. (I left some personal information blank.) Why exactly do they need my ID number and place of birth???

2. Family situation: family members’ names, ages, occupations, employers’ names, and whether they live with you. I left this section blank, and the interviewer did not ask about it.

3. Highest level of education

4. Work experience: “supervisor’s name and position, contact telephone number, salary.” I left these blank. Requirements like this are very off-putting and suggest that the company’s culture is not suitable for me.

Another thing that left a particularly strong impression was that they asked you to check:

Whether you can work rotating morning and evening shifts?

Whether your family agrees with and supports you working rotating shifts?

Whether you need to independently care for elderly family members or young children?

Whether you need to independently bear the household expenses?

Working hours are divided into morning and evening shifts. Neither the phone call nor the interview mentioned a middle shift.

Morning shift: 9 a.m.–6 p.m.

Evening shift: 2–10 p.m.

There is a one-hour break in between, but you have to order as a group or buy food to bring back; you cannot go out for an hour-long break.

There are 8–10 days off. The number of holidays marked in red on the calendar determines how many days are scheduled; you choose 4 days yourself, and the supervisor schedules the rest.

Typhoon days off are paid.

The three major holidays are days off (Lunar New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival). You work on minor holidays (such as February 28). If you are scheduled for a minor holiday, you work; minor holidays are morning-shift only.

The salary is NT$30,000, increasing to NT$32,000 after becoming a regular employee.

There is performance pressure: reaching at least NT$410,000 in monthly sales qualifies you for a NT$6,150 performance bonus.

You call students to invite them to an in-store explanation session. Put nicely, it is called helping them pursue their dreams; put less nicely, it is selling them an unrealistic vision, persuading them to want to learn, take courses, invest in themselves, and acquire the skills they need for a future career change.

Conclusion: If you want to practice your speaking skills, you can go.