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1. Please apply for appointment as a research assistant or post-doctoral fellow via the Project Personnel EZ-Come System (https://psf.nchu.edu.tw/EZcome/). Sign up with the internal project number and your ARC number to obtain your login credentials, then log into the system to file the application.

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2. Please log into the system, verify the appointment requirements, fill in your basic information, upload the required documents (such as ARC, work permit, etc.), and submit the application. You may keep track of the progress of your application within the same system.

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3. Following a review by the principal investigator, appointments must be submitted by 3 p.m. on the day the project personnel report for duty so that the University may process labor insurance and national health insurance applications on the same day.

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nThose who wish to perform academic research work must apply with the Ministry of Labor. Navigate to the EZ Work Permit (https://ezwp.wda.gov.tw/wcfonline/wSite/Control?function=IndexPage) portal to apply online. See “A11. Academic research: required documents and application form” on the EZ Work Taiwan for more details.

Prior to their resignation from the University or the expiry of their employment contract, foreign postgraduate research fellows are required to download and fill out a First Bank Severance Pay Account Closure Application and submit it to the Cashier Division to settle their severance payment.

When reporting for work, International faculty members (including postdoctoral research fellows) are required to open an account with either Chunghwa Post Co., Ltd. or Bank SinoPac and provide their account information to the Cashier Division.nnTo open an account, please have the following documents ready:nn1. Alien residence certificate or passportnn2. Letter of appointmentnn3. Personal sealnnPlease provide the Cashier Division with your account information after opening the account.

Postdoctoral research fellows and full-time assistants are required to sign in and out of work during the same flexible working hours as those for staff members. They may only sign out of work 9 hours (including a 1-hour lunch break) after they sign in. Project personnel must sign in and out from the fixed IP address assigned to them. Part-time project personnel must sign in and out through the University’s attendance/leave management system based on the actual time they arrive at and leave work.

Postdoctoral researchers are prohibited from taking up part-time work or teaching engagements within or outside of NCHU without the written authorization of the University, unless the sponsoring agency (or unit) of the project they work on has no restrictions on part-time engagements and the necessary administrative approval procedures have been completed.