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During the interview, they force applicants to disclose their salaries from previous jobs.
They even ask about the hourly wage from part-time jobs during university.
They go so far as to ask how much the applicant has to pay toward student loans each month.
They also question the applicant’s reason for leaving their previous job.
It’s extremely baffling.
I interviewed in Taipei.
The office is in a basement, very dim, and somewhat messy.
They recognized my professional expertise (I applied for the position of sales assistant. The job duties are as follows:
1. Handling and tracking customer orders and filing
2. Maintaining contact with customers, replying to e-mails, and confirming delivery dates.
3. Assisting sales staff with internal administrative tasks related to sales operations.
4. Graphic and text design and layout, writing marketing copy, video editing and subtitling, managing social media such as LINE and Facebook, and assisting with product listings and website updates (the video-related work includes filming, and the website-related work requires writing source code)
The salary is somewhat low (although this is also related to my educational background), and I have some concerns about the website and the company’s personnel planning (for example, only one person has been writing the website since it was established, and it still does not have HTTPS, which raises information-security concerns). Regarding salary, those without a university degree are paid according to the Labor Standards Act, while those with a university degree start at NT$26,000 (the salary listed on the recruitment site, however, says regular compensation of over NT$40,000). Of course, you can see that many companies are similar in this regard on recruitment sites, so I will not comment further.
Aside from that, what concerns me more is that the interviewer and I had some misunderstandings (I would not say this was his fault; I think both sides were responsible). He also said that the difference between part-time and full-time employment was that, if he no longer wanted someone to do the job, he could simply let that person leave immediately. Hmm, is that really how Taiwan’s Labor Standards Act works?