I. Currently, only foreigners who engage in the specialized or technical jobs specified under Article 46.1.1 of the Employment Services Act are required to have at least two years of relevant work experience and a bachelor’s degree (foreigners with a master’s degree are exempted from work experience requirements). As for those who engaged in jobs specified under Articles 46.1.2 to 46.1.6, work experience is not required.
II.Foreigners holding a bachelor's degree or above and engaging in professional or specialized work, may be exempted from the work experience requirement if they meet one of the following qualifications:
1. Students who have graduated from a university or college in the Republic of China with an associate degree in subjects related to manufacturing, construction, agriculture, long-term care, or e-commerce.
2. Approved by Article 6 of the Act for the Recruitment and Employment of Foreign Professionals. A foreigner who has obtained a master’s or higher degree from a domestic or foreign university, or who has obtained a bachelor’s or higher degree from one of the world’s top universities as announced by the Ministry of Education, need not have a specified period of work experience as a prerequisite for being employed in the State to engage in specialized or technical work as referred to in Article 46 .1.1 of the Employment Service Act, provided that they have obtained the requisite qualifications for engaging in such work, comply with the specified methods and conditions for engaging in such work, and comply with relevant laws and regulations prescribed by the central competent authority of the industry concerned.
3.Approved by the Consultation mechanism: Approved by the qualification of III or project consultation
Project Consultation :Employers who hire foreign professionals, he/she is required to submit applicable evidence. The employer is also expected to elaborate on why the skills of the foreign talent(s) are hard to acquire in Taiwan. The MOL will file the papers or call for a meeting by the relevant departments to hold the conference. After a meeting or having gathered feedback from relevant departments, the MOL will evaluate if the foreign professional(s) meets the conditions as specified in #3 of the above-mentioned "Conditions required to hold a conference" for the purpose of assisting the business in recruiting international talents to undertake specialized or technical work and being exempted from the working experience requirement.
III. To cope with the needs of businesses, a foreigner with a bachelor’s degree who is hired to perform specialized or technical jobs as specified under Article 46.1.1 of the Employment Services Act in the Republic of China may be exempted from the work experience requirement if the employer meets one of the following requirements:
1. The employer has a Letter of Certification for Business Scope of Headquarters or a Letter of Approval for Domestic and Foreign Enterprises to Establish R&D Centers in R.O.C. ,or a certificate of IPO award with one year validity starting from the date after the receipt of an award issued by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, or works for one of the 11 technical services enterprises listed in Table 10 under Article 5.1 of the Regulations for Encouraging Manufacturing Enterprises and Technical Service Enterprises in Newly Emerging, Important, and Strategic Industries.
2. The business is located in a science park and the foreigner to be hired will provide designs needed to produce goods or labor, improve industry technology or research development, perform management tasks and related studies, or promote business and conduct market surveys in other foreign regions that use special languages.
3. Business entities that comply with the definition of "startup with innovation capability".
4. Public national secondary schools or public national primary schools employ foreigners to work as English teaching assistants.