How we Started
Co-founders, Irene Notias and Angeliki Livanou, believed in Demosthenes statement, “It is more difficult to preserve than to acquire” (“Χαλεπώτερον το φυλάττειν του κτήσασθαι”) 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’t have a connection in shipping. Hence in 2012, Notias and Livanou, while supporting meritocracy, decided to become “The CONNECTION” for them.
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. However, employers would not offer internships because of the low rate of return on the time and energy invested in inexperienced students and graduates.
They successfully persuaded their clients, friends and educational institutions to consider offering internships and entry level jobs basis the above statement. Through an organized HR guided method, they created the 1st online CV Database and were joined by HR expert Efharis Perpinia soon after, becoming Shipping’s 1st HR Hub for young people.
