How to Apply to Far EasTone Telecommunications

12 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 1 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • FET is Taiwan's #2 telecoms operator after the 2023 Asia Pacific Telecom merger, with roughly 7,000 employees, ~NT$95B revenue, headquartered at Yuanta Far Eastern Plaza on Bannan Road and listed as TWSE 4904 under the Far Eastern Group.
  • The ATS is a proprietary Liferay portal at erecruit.fareastone.com.tw — not Workday, not Oracle, not a SaaS product — and it is geo-restricted in practice. Candidates abroad should use a Taiwan VPN or apply via 104人力銀行 mirror postings.
  • Mandarin Chinese fluency is a practical hard requirement for almost every non-specialist role. Apply with a Traditional Chinese résumé as the primary document and include TOEIC or equivalent English certification prominently.
  • The MA (菁英) graduate programme runs an 18-month rotation with published tracks in ICT business, network engineering, cloud/AI, and cyber-security; the 2026 cohort closed applications 24 April and starts 13 July.
  • Interviews run 3-4 formal Mandarin-primary rounds, culminating in an executive panel for senior roles. Behavioural questions probe teamwork, stress tolerance and hierarchy comfort more than pure technical depth.
  • Post-merger integration experience, practical 5G depth, multi-cloud fluency and Taiwan-specific consumer product instincts are the four skill signals that most reliably distinguish winning candidates from filler applications.

About Far EasTone Telecommunications

Far EasTone Telecommunications Co., Ltd. (遠傳電信, TWSE: 4904), universally known as FET, is Taiwan's second-largest mobile carrier and a flagship subsidiary of the Far Eastern Group — the conglomerate chaired by Douglas Hsu (徐旭東) that spans retail, petrochemicals, cement, finance and telecommunications. FET's headquarters sit inside the Yuanta Far Eastern Plaza at 207 Bannan (板南) Road, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, with additional operations, network operations centres and retail support hubs scattered across Taipei, Taoyuan and southern Taiwan. The company employs roughly 7,000 people when you include its fully consolidated subsidiaries, and in 2024 it reported consolidated revenue of approximately NT$95 billion — numbers that jumped materially after the landmark 2023 merger absorbed Asia Pacific Telecom (亞太電信, APT) and vaulted FET past Taiwan Mobile into the clear number-two slot behind state-backed incumbent Chunghwa Telecom. FET is where Taiwan's consumer 5G story largely gets written. The carrier was one of the first operators in the market to light up a nationwide standalone 5G core, it operates one of the country's largest enterprise private-network portfolios (manufacturing, hospitals, ports, smart cities), and through its friDay brand it runs adjacent video, music, shopping and fintech properties that funnel content and payments through the telco stack. Beyond mobile, FET runs a rapidly expanding fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband business, enterprise ICT and cloud services (including Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud partnerships with Microsoft LSP credentials), cyber-security services (certified at Taiwan's top Grade A level), and a growing IoT and AIoT solutions line aimed at factories, logistics fleets and municipal governments. The current CEO is Chee Ching (井琪, Yvonne Chyi-Ching), a long-time telecoms executive who has led the carrier through the 5G roll-out and the APT integration; verify the sitting CEO on FET's investor relations pages before citing in cover letters, because executive appointments in Taiwanese conglomerates can shift quickly around the annual shareholders' meeting. Two realities dominate FET's hiring market that candidates should internalise before applying. First, FET is a Mandarin-primary workplace. Every job description, every application form field, every interview conversation and every onboarding document defaults to Traditional Chinese. A non-trivial minority of engineering and strategy roles require English for vendor meetings, international roaming partners and group reporting, but fluency in professional Mandarin — both spoken and written — is effectively a hard prerequisite for anyone outside a very narrow band of specialist technology roles. Second, the carrier is still digesting the Asia Pacific Telecom merger. Network integration work, spectrum refarming, billing-system consolidation and the migration of former APT subscribers onto FET's stack continues to generate both opportunity (teams are hiring) and friction (decision cycles are longer than at a greenfield startup). Candidates who show up understanding the post-merger context — and who can cite specific ways they would help compress integration timelines — signal exactly the commercial instincts FET's hiring managers reward.

Application Process

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    Start on the corporate careers landing page at corporate

    Start on the corporate careers landing page at corporate.fetnet.net/content/corp/tw/join-us.html (菁英招募). This is the front door for all non-retail hiring at FET and it links directly to both the e-Recruit application system and the annual 菁英 (MA) graduate programme microsite at fetnet.net/content/cbu/tw/help-center/others/MA_job.html.

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    Create an account on erecruit

    Create an account on erecruit.fareastone.com.tw, FET's self-hosted applicant tracking system. This portal is a proprietary Liferay portlet build (the underlying URL query string references FETRECopportunity_WAR_FETRECopportunityportlet), not a mainstream SaaS product — which means the UX, form fields and file-upload behaviour are bespoke to FET. Note that the portal is geo-sensitive and is frequently unreachable from outside Taiwan; if you are applying from abroad, use a Taiwan VPN exit node or, for the MA programme, apply directly through the 104人力銀行 (104 Job Bank) or CakeResume mirrors when FET posts the opening there.

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    Complete the Chinese-language 履歷 (résumé) form inside e-Recruit

    Complete the Chinese-language 履歷 (résumé) form inside e-Recruit. The portal asks for structured personal data (national ID or ARC number, education history keyed to Taiwan's MOE college code list, military service status for male applicants, language certification scores) before it will let you attach a free-form CV. Fill every field — do not treat this as a cosmetic step. FET's recruiters filter heavily on the structured data, and incomplete profiles are routinely skipped over regardless of attached résumé quality.

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    Upload a Traditional Chinese résumé as the primary document and, if you have one

    Upload a Traditional Chinese résumé as the primary document and, if you have one, attach an English version as a supporting file. Export both as PDF with a Western-friendly filename (for example, LastName_FirstName_FET_Role.pdf) so the file opens cleanly on the recruiter's Windows desktop. The e-Recruit portal tolerates .docx but renders it inconsistently.

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    Search the live job board using the functional category filters surfaced on the

    Search the live job board using the functional category filters surfaced on the careers page: 資訊工程 (IT Engineering), 網通技術 (Network Technology), 行銷 (Marketing), 專案管理 (Project Management), 門市/客服 (Retail and Customer Service), 營運支援 (Operations Support — finance, legal, HR, procurement), 業務 (Sales — consumer and enterprise B2B), and 其他 (Other, including subsidiary roles and internships). Each category filter rewrites the Liferay search URL with a searchComblePositionStr parameter, which is useful if you want to deep-link directly to a tag.

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    Submit a targeted application per role

    Submit a targeted application per role. FET's system permits multiple simultaneous applications, but recruiters can see your full history, so carpet-bombing twenty openings signals indecision. Pick two or three closely-related roles, tailor a Traditional Chinese cover letter (自傳) for each, and lead with concrete numbers: TOEIC score, university ranking, relevant project metrics.

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    Monitor your email and the e-Recruit inbox daily

    Monitor your email and the e-Recruit inbox daily. FET moves quickly on qualified candidates: recruiters typically reach out within one to three weeks for experienced hires and within the published timeline for the MA programme (for the 2026 cohort, applications closed 24 April, screening interviews ran April through May, senior-leader panels in May, offers issued early June, and start date 13 July).

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    Prepare to attend interviews on-site at the Banqiao or Neihu offices

    Prepare to attend interviews on-site at the Banqiao or Neihu offices. FET runs a Mandarin-primary, in-person interview culture for the vast majority of roles; remote interviews are granted selectively, typically only to candidates based overseas during the screening stage. Dress formally — dark suit for men, equivalent business formal for women — and arrive ten minutes early, because Taiwanese corporate etiquette treats even a two-minute late arrival as a meaningful negative signal.

Resume Tips for Far EasTone Telecommunications

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Lead your Traditional Chinese résumé with a 200-word 自傳 (autobiography) paragrap

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Quote your TOEIC, TOEIC Speaking, IELTS or equivalent English score explicitly

Quote your TOEIC, TOEIC Speaking, IELTS or equivalent English score explicitly. FET's MA programme requires TOEIC documentation, and almost every engineering or corporate role treats a verified English score (ideally TOEIC 750+ or IELTS 6.5+) as an implicit screening filter because vendor management and parent-company reporting happen in English.

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Use Taiwanese university naming conventions exactly as they appear in the Minist

Use Taiwanese university naming conventions exactly as they appear in the Ministry of Education registry: 國立臺灣大學 (National Taiwan University), 國立陽明交通大學 (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), 國立成功大學 (National Cheng Kung University), and so on. Recruiters screen on these strings; a creative English transliteration can make your profile invisible to keyword search.

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For engineering roles, list specific telecom stack experience: 5G SA/NSA, ORAN,

For engineering roles, list specific telecom stack experience: 5G SA/NSA, ORAN, Ericsson or Nokia RAN, Cisco or Juniper core, MEC, BSS/OSS platforms (Ericsson Revenue Manager, Amdocs), network slicing, private 5G deployment. FET runs a multi-vendor estate, so breadth beats narrow loyalty to one OEM.

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For digital and IT roles, name cloud certifications concretely: AWS Solutions Ar

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For sales and marketing roles, quantify commercial outcomes in NTD or percentage

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State your military service status plainly if you are a male Taiwanese citizen (

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Keep the Chinese résumé to two pages, the English version to one page

Keep the Chinese résumé to two pages, the English version to one page. Add a small portfolio URL in the header if you have one — GitHub, a personal site, published product work — and host a Traditional Chinese version of the landing page so the hiring manager is not forced into a language switch.

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Avoid résumé templates that embed critical content inside graphical elements, tw

Avoid résumé templates that embed critical content inside graphical elements, two-column PDFs with overlapping text boxes, or colour-heavy infographic layouts. The e-Recruit portal forwards your PDF to internal Outlook readers where those layouts render inconsistently, and ATS-style keyword extraction on the Liferay backend still benefits from a linear, single-column flow.

ATS System: FET e-Recruit (Liferay-based proprietary portal at erecruit.fareastone.com.tw)

FET does not use Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, Greenhouse or any other mainstream SaaS ATS on its primary careers channel. Instead, the carrier runs a self-hosted Liferay portal called e-Recruit (erecruit.fareastone.com.tw) built around a custom portlet named FETRECopportunity_WAR_FETRECopportunityportlet. This is classic enterprise-Taiwan pattern — a Java-stack on-premises system tuned for local identity verification, military service fields, MOE education codes and Traditional Chinese form validation. The system is geo-restricted in practice: the public hostname times out from most non-Taiwan IP addresses, which is why FET also publishes a large number of postings through 104人力銀行 (104 Job Bank) and CakeResume as backup distribution channels. Candidates abroad who cannot reach e-Recruit directly should apply through those mirrors; FET recruiters monitor both and respond from the same talent-acquisition team.

  • Complete every structured field in the Traditional Chinese profile form, not just the résumé upload. The Liferay back-end ranks profiles on structured data completeness before a human ever sees the attached file.
  • Upload a Traditional Chinese PDF as the primary résumé. The portal accepts English files but recruiters and managers downstream read Chinese first, and any English-only document gets routed through a translation step that delays your application.
  • Expect the portal to time out and log you out aggressively. Draft your 自傳 (autobiography) and cover letter in a local word processor, then paste into the form rather than composing live inside the browser.
  • If you are applying from outside Taiwan, use a Taiwan VPN exit node or apply through the 104人力銀行 mirror posting instead. FET's e-Recruit host blocks or rate-limits international IPs frequently enough that it is the single most common reason overseas candidates report silent application failures.
  • Use plain-text-friendly formatting. Avoid two-column PDFs, text inside images, and embedded fonts that are not part of the standard CJK Windows font set — the portal's downstream previewer rendered in Microsoft Office on recruiter desktops will not reliably display everything.
  • After submitting, return to the portal weekly to check your application status. FET recruiters update status flags in the e-Recruit back-end and email notifications occasionally land in Gmail promotions — the portal is the authoritative source.

Interview Culture

FET interviews run on a formal, Mandarin-primary, multi-round cadence that is typical of large Taiwanese corporates.

For experienced hires, expect three to four rounds: an initial HR screen focused on motivation and salary expectations, a direct-manager technical interview, a skip-level or department-head panel, and a final conversation with the relevant vice-president or CTO office for senior positions. The MA (菁英) graduate programme follows a published structure — application screening, a line-manager interview in April-May, a senior executive panel in May, and offer letters in early June — and uses group case work plus individual presentations to assess candidates. Interviews are conducted in Traditional Mandarin Chinese by default. Certain specialist engineering roles (core network architecture, cyber-security for international clients, carrier-to-carrier interconnect, cloud partnerships with Microsoft/AWS/Google) will include English segments, and senior commercial roles that touch on Far Eastern Group's cross-border businesses often add an English case discussion. Do not assume English is a safe fallback: showing up without the ability to present your work, handle behavioural questions and negotiate compensation in Mandarin will end the process at the first round for all but the narrowest specialist slots. Technical interviews for engineering roles are structured but conversational. Network engineers should expect live whiteboarding on 5G architecture (SA vs NSA, UPF placement, MEC offload), transport (MPLS, SR-MPLS, SRv6), and troubleshooting scenarios pulled from real FET outages. Software and cloud engineers will see system-design questions pitched against FET's scale (tens of millions of subscribers, billions of CDR records per day) and one or two coding problems in the candidate's preferred language. Data and AI candidates get asked about practical production deployments — feature pipelines, model monitoring, cost control — rather than textbook ML theory. Cyber-security candidates should be ready to discuss Taiwan's Grade-A critical infrastructure regulations and the specific controls FET operates at SOC level. Behavioural questions lean heavily on collaboration, hierarchy respect and long-horizon thinking. A common pattern is the 抗壓性 (stress tolerance) question — a specific story about a project that went wrong and how you handled it — and the 團隊合作 (teamwork) question, which is usually looking for evidence that you can work across siloed business units (a daily reality given the APT merger integration). Avoid framing yourself as a lone-wolf performer; Taiwanese corporate culture reads that profile as a flight risk and a management liability. Salary negotiation happens at the end of the final round and is anchored firmly to internal pay bands — prepare a defensible number with market evidence from 104 or LinkedIn Salary, and expect the first offer to land slightly below your target with room for one polite counter.

What Far EasTone Telecommunications Looks For

  • Professional Traditional Mandarin fluency — speaking, reading and writing — as the baseline expectation for almost every role. English is additive, not a substitute.
  • Demonstrated comfort with post-merger integration work. Candidates who can cite concrete experience migrating systems, consolidating org charts, or harmonising data models stand out because FET is still integrating Asia Pacific Telecom across network, billing and retail.
  • Practical 5G depth for engineering roles. Not slideware — actual production experience with standalone core rollouts, private 5G enterprise deployments, MEC, or network slicing.
  • Enterprise ICT and cloud multi-tool fluency for digital hires. FET sells AWS, Azure and Google Cloud solutions simultaneously; single-cloud specialists are less valuable than engineers who bridge platforms.
  • Cyber-security seriousness for any role touching subscriber data. FET holds Taiwan's Grade-A critical-infrastructure designation and screens hires carefully against that bar.
  • Consumer product instincts for marketing, digital and friDay roles. The carrier wants people who understand Taiwan's specific media, payments and OTT dynamics, not generic MarTech operators.
  • Hunter-and-farmer enterprise sales skills for B2B roles. FET's enterprise channel competes hard with Chunghwa and Taiwan Mobile for manufacturing, hospital and government accounts, and the sales culture rewards relationship depth over deal volume.
  • Long-tenure orientation. Taiwanese conglomerates invest heavily in training (FET runs formal MA, specialist, common and management tracks) and expect at least a three-year payoff horizon; short-tenure résumés attract extra scrutiny.
  • Respect for hierarchy and quiet competence. Loud, brash self-promotion in interviews reads as immaturity; the interviewer is watching for calm confidence and deference to senior panellists.
  • Cultural alignment with the Far Eastern Group's family-controlled, long-term-strategy posture. Candidates who mention Douglas Hsu's strategic priorities, the group's CSR track record (FET has been recognised on DJSI World for multiple consecutive years) and the post-APT integration roadmap signal that they have done real homework.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Far EasTone use Workday, Oracle or another mainstream ATS?
No. FET runs a self-hosted Liferay-based recruitment portal called e-Recruit at erecruit.fareastone.com.tw. Inspecting the URL structure reveals a proprietary Java portlet (FETRECopportunity_WAR_FETRECopportunityportlet) rather than any SaaS ATS. The implication for applicants is that standard Workday or Greenhouse playbooks do not apply — you need to fill every structured Chinese-language field in the portal itself and cannot rely on a drag-and-drop résumé parse to populate them automatically.
Can I apply to FET if I do not speak Mandarin Chinese?
For most roles, no. FET is a Mandarin-primary workplace — job descriptions, application forms, interviews and day-to-day operations all default to Traditional Chinese. A narrow set of specialist roles (certain senior engineering slots, Microsoft/AWS partnership management, international roaming and interconnect) can function in English, but even there hiring managers strongly prefer professional Mandarin fluency. If you do not speak Chinese, focus your search on those specialist niches and be honest about the language gap in your cover letter rather than hiding it.
What is the 菁英計畫 (MA / Elite) programme and how does it differ from regular entry-level roles?
The 菁英計畫 (literally 'Elite Programme') is FET's flagship 18-month management-associate rotation for recent graduates, published annually under the '新世代菁英計畫' banner. Participants rotate across business units, take a structured training curriculum covering telecoms technology, digital products, cloud and cyber-security, and are assigned senior mentors. The 2026 programme had four published tracks — ICT business, network engineering, cloud/AI, and cyber-security — and promises placement into a high-potential track at programme completion. Admission is more selective than a standard graduate hire: the 2026 cycle closed applications 24 April with manager interviews in April-May, senior executive panels in May, offers early June and start date 13 July. TOEIC certification is mandatory.
How has the 2023 Asia Pacific Telecom (亞太電信) merger affected hiring at FET?
The APT merger made FET the clear number-two Taiwanese carrier by subscribers, spectrum and scale, which in turn expanded hiring across network integration, billing-system consolidation, subscriber migration and retail network rationalisation. In practice this means three things for candidates: (1) there are more engineering and PMO roles than a pre-merger FET would have posted, especially in RAN integration, core-network harmonisation and billing migration; (2) interviewers increasingly screen for merger-integration skills — candidates who can demonstrate real experience running cutover weekends, data-model reconciliation or org consolidation stand out; and (3) decision cycles are slightly longer than at a pure-play or greenfield operator, because the organisation still spans two legacy operational footprints.
Can I apply to FET from outside Taiwan?
You can, but the primary e-Recruit portal is geo-restricted in practice — the hostname frequently times out from international IP addresses. There are three workarounds. First, use a Taiwan-based VPN exit node to reach erecruit.fareastone.com.tw reliably. Second, apply through the 104人力銀行 (104 Job Bank) mirror listings, which FET maintains actively and which its recruiters monitor. Third, for the MA programme specifically, contact the FET HR talent-acquisition team by email through the links on corporate.fetnet.net/content/corp/tw/join-us.html and explain your situation; they will sometimes open a manual application path for overseas Taiwanese graduates. Expect to eventually be required to interview in person in Taipei for any serious offer.
What does compensation look like at FET?
FET's compensation structure is in line with top-tier Taiwanese corporates and slightly above the broader telecoms market median because of the Far Eastern Group's scale. Entry-level MA programme base salaries typically land in the NT$45,000-NT$55,000 per month range, experienced engineers and managers sit in NT$80,000-NT$180,000 per month depending on seniority and speciality, and senior directors and VPs clear seven figures annually when bonus and profit-sharing are included. Actual pay is tightly banded, so negotiating meaningfully above the band requires either a competing offer from Chunghwa Telecom or Taiwan Mobile or a scarce-skills case (for example, 5G SA core architect or cyber-security SOC leadership). Benefits include supplemental health insurance, stock-linked long-term incentives for senior roles, on-site gym and wellness programmes, and strong CSR and family-benefit components tied to the broader Far Eastern Group.
Is remote work available at FET?
Partial remote work is available and FET publicly profiles its 敏捷辦公室 (agile office) and 幸福職場 (happiness workplace) initiatives, which include flexible scheduling and some hybrid arrangements. In practice the carrier remains anchored to in-person work for most roles — retail, network operations, sales and anything touching subscriber data lives on-site in Banqiao or Neihu. Engineering, digital and corporate-function roles can often negotiate one to two remote days per week after successful probation, but fully remote hires are rare and generally limited to specific roles where the candidate brings scarce skills. Do not lead salary negotiations with remote-work demands.
How should I prepare for a FET technical interview if I am applying for a 5G or network engineering role?
Study FET's published 5G architecture specifically: standalone core with UPF placement strategy, NSA fallback behaviour in areas still being upgraded from the legacy APT footprint, enterprise private-5G deployments (FET publishes case studies on its corporate site across manufacturing, hospitals and ports), and MEC edge-compute positioning. Be ready to whiteboard signalling flows (SUCI/SUPI, registration, PDU session establishment), handle vendor-specific troubleshooting (Ericsson, Nokia and Cisco appear in FET's estate), and discuss ORAN versus classical RAN trade-offs from a Taiwanese carrier perspective — Chunghwa Telecom and FET have diverged slightly in how aggressively they have embraced ORAN, and interviewers test whether you understand that nuance.

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