ASE Technology Holding Co., the world’s largest integrated circuit packaging and testing services provider, said it will hire more than 2,000 new workers by the end of this year as the company continues to expand production.
The company is launching a massive recruitment campaign for its Kaohsiung production base to attract workers in the southern city who are interested in the semiconductor industry so that they do not need to move to the north to land a job, ASE said.
The recruitment campaign kicked off Saturday for engineers, management trainees and production assistants, and will continue until the end of this year, according to ASE.
ASE said production line jobseekers can come in for walk-in interviews at the company’s K10 plant in Kaohsiung.
ASE added the company will continue to work closely with academic institutions to provide training opportunities to enlarge its talent pool.
Kaohsiung has become one of the most important semiconductor clusters for sophisticated processes, ASE said, so to promote a better understanding about the industry, the company has staged a series of exhibitions in the city about the link between IC packaging and testing services and emerging technologies such as 5G applications, the Internet of Things, and automotive electronics.
In late August, the board of its 100 percent-owned subsidiary Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. met and issued a green light to build the K27 plant in Kaohsiung as a flip chip packaging and testing base. Construction of the new plant is scheduled to be completed by the end of the third quarter next year.
In the first half of this year, ASE posted a net profit of NT$18.82 billion (US$679 million), up 73.6 percent from a year earlier, with earnings per share at NT$4.37, compared with NT$2.54 over the same period last year on solid global demand.
In the same six-month period, ASE’s consolidated sales rose 20.25 percent from a year earlier to NT$246.40 billion.
In the second quarter, ASE reported that its gross margin — the difference between its revenue and cost of goods sold — had reached 19.5 percent, a new quarterly high and an increase of 1.2 percentage points from the previous quarter.
ASE has anticipated its revenue and profit margin will grow further in the second half of the year on the back of rising global demand.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel