It's very
obvious that despite the advancement in the internet and social media when it
comes to job hunting, the maritime community here in the Philippines is still
backward when it comes to this and rarely use this advancement in looking for
employee's. In other words the term online application system is not effective
as it is compared to other job Industries like in the BPO (call center).
Here in the
maritime community , despite some companies here have an online application
system on their websites - none of them have an effective means of using it
effectively. As a matter of fact they don’t even bother to contact each and
every applicant that submits an online application form in their website. The
cause is either their lazy or simple ignoramuses, who knows ???!. Fact here is
that the online job searching for sailors via internet is ineffective and
pathetic compared to BPO companies in the Philippines.
In the BPO
community (or industry), Companies there have all the time to follow each and
every applicant that passed their application form online regardless of the
volume of applicant they received online, heck even some of them conducts
interviews on the phone. Their so efficient in screening online that if you
would compare it to the maritime industry online job application system (in any
company). The maritime communities job hunting system online would be
pathetically embarrassing.
The
principle why BPO online job hunting is so effective is the fact that they have
a saying "Time is money" and in order to save time, effort and money
to job seekers, an online application is even encouraged - in literal sense
they actually do not waste a person's time. The Maritime industry here in the
Philippines sadly doesn’t live and practice those ideas and sadly put their
applicants on the horrendous wasteful inefficient process. Probably they argued
that "the more a person waste his / her time in the waiting area, the more
he / she is interested" . The problem with the maritime community here in
the Philippines is the fact that they are very slow and refuse to accept new
idea's especially on the job seeking and job hunting experience , let alone the
efficient use of those new methods. As a result employment process is clunky,
time, effort and money wasting.
