How Recruitment Process Digitalization Can Increase Revenue for Shiprepair Companies Involved in Project-based Work - Romanian Manpower Case Study

Abstract

This study is aiming at demonstrating that EU companies involved in the ship-repair and shipbuilding market can be more efficient and financially successful if they would use a realtime data, digital recruitment platform that can always fill all manpower requests, in terms of capable, experienced, available and interested Romanian ship-repair and shipbuilding technicians. This would be possible especially because such an aggregator, that uses and transmits real-time data/information both-ways (from candidate to companies and from companies to candidate), is a solution to having skilled shipyard workforce available both during high and low seasons at the same salary expectations. Apart from the above, the study aims at understanding the specific position the average Romanian ship-repair and shipbuilding technician takes, when asked about his preference regarding the means used to access seasonal and/or permanent job offers abroad. This has no prior dedicated research, and it is very important to understand, especially because this has major implications on major European Union shipyards and on ship-repair companies active around the globe.