CROSS-STRAIT AIR LINKS SEEN RESHAPING HUMAN RESOURCE MAPS.

TAIPEI, June 2 Asia Pulse - The opening of direct air links across the Taiwan Strait may reshape human resource maps in Taiwan and China, an online employment service provider predicted Sunday.

If direct cross-strait air links are launched, beginning with weekend charter flights, the number of Taiwanese working in China on a divided-time basis or Taiwanese engineers working in China on weekends and holidays would grow dramatically, a 104 Job Bank official predicted.

Such a development would alter human resource maps across the Taiwan Strait, the executive said.

More people in Taiwan are now thinking about working in China because of unfavorable trends in Taiwan's job market and the soon-to-be-opened direct weekend charters, said Huang Chih-yao, a 104 Job Bank executive in charge of "headhunting for China."

According to a survey conducted by 104 Job Bank in May, the number of Taiwanese workers seeking job opportunities in China averaged 20,000 per day by the end of May, the highest number since early 2006.

The figure was 3,000 people more per day compared to March and a year-on-year increase of 5,000 people per day, Huang said.

The poll found that the number of China-based job openings had remained steady at about 8,000 ...