The number of job openings available in Taiwan have grown on a year-on-year basis for 11 consecutive months, a local online employment agency said Friday. The Taipei-based 1111 Job Bank declined to offer specific job figures, however, citing business confidentiality. The agency said in a statement that the number of job openings available during the past seven months, have posted average year-on-year monthly growth of 30 percent. The number of jobs available grew especially sharply in a few specific industries, rising 80.28 year-on-year in the old economy manufacturing sector, 77.65 percent in the restaurant, hairdressing and beauty care sector, and 64.35 percent in the construction and real estate sector, the job bank said. The statement came hours after Taiwan's statistics agency reported that the country's adjusted unemployment rate fell for the 13th consecutive month to 5.08 percent in September, helped by a drop in the number of people left jobless because of downsizings or company shutdowns. Despite the prolonged decline in the jobless rate, however, it has remained stubbornly above 5 percent, even with the many job openings that have become available in 2010. Henry Ho, the agency's public relations director, said the disparity showed that the majority of jobs available in Taiwan are created by only a limited number of sectors, making it hard to match job openings to job seekers. 