\u201cEach one of us is a link in one united chain. Let\u2019s ensure we are strong and linked tight.\u201d\u00a0Irene Notias<\/em><\/p>\nThe chain created by Ms. Eva Divari, is symbolic as a chain is absolutely just as vulnerable as its weakest link and it just needs one link to crack for the whole chain to fail. As shipping industry is just a link in a chain of innumerable candidates and shipping companies. If a link in the industry chain breaks, there will be nothing for the shipping industry to work on. Therefore,\u00a0\u201cstrongly\u201d\u00a0educated candidates imply a\u00a0\u201cstrong\u201d\u00a0shipping industry.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Chain<\/i>, our logo, is by Artist Eva Divari who has travelled on ships all her life. Each individual employee is like a link in a chain. If one link brakes, the entire chain is broken. Let\u2019s ensure that each “link” is strong and the chain is tightly united resulting in strong and healthy companies able to compete in the international arena.<\/p>\nWhy we started & how?<\/h2>\n
Co-founders, Irene Notias and Angeliki Livanou, believed in Demosthenes statement, “It is more difficult to preserve than to acquire” (“\u03a7\u03b1\u03bb\u03b5\u03c0\u03ce\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf \u03c6\u03c5\u03bb\u03ac\u03c4\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9”) and that the only way to sustain shipping companies is to properly prepare its next generation workforce. At the same time, most young job seekers’ expressed to them their sense of hopelessness at finding internships and jobs and believed that it was because they didn\u2019t have a connection in shipping. So, Notias and Livanou, while supporting meritocracy, decided to become \u201cThe CONNECTION\u201d for them.<\/p>\n
They investigated why the low hiring rate and support of young personnel in the shipping industry and being business owners and managers themselves, they understood that although there was a need for fresh manpower, young job seekers lacked work-experience, know-how and admin skill sets enabling them to offer support to their employers.<\/p>\n
They successfully persuaded their clients and friends to consider offering internships and entry level jobs basis the above statement. Thru an organized HR guided method, they created the 1st online CV Database and were joined by HR expert Efharis Perpinia soon after, becoming Shipping\u2019s 1st HR Hub for young people.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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