'Career Vision' focuses on putting job seekers to work

'Career Vision' focuses on putting job seekers to work

Career Vision

Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

Host: Charles Bonar Sirait

ANteve

JAKARTA (JP): Local job seekers now have an alternative to
poring over the classifieds in newspapers and sites available on
the Internet.

Private television station ANteve is offering Career Vision,
with information on finding a job which fits. It is an
interactive recruitment service which is a forum for those in
search of a job, headhunters and people trying to tap into the
latest business trends.

It is also a welcome respite from the glut of sinetron (TV
soaps) which fill the airwaves of the other private stations and
dominate prime-time.

Produced by PT Career Vision Nusantara in cooperation with PT
Jobs DB Indonesia, it is the first TV program in Indonesia to
offer job recruitment, supported by a publication, Tabloid Job,
and Internet portals: www.JobsDB.com, www.cbn.net.id,
www.detik.com, www.IklanBaris.co.id, www.kompas.com and
www.tempo.co.id.

The show is undoubtedly meeting a need, with the economy
seemingly on the mend and many people who were left out of work
during the crisis now actively searching for a good job. Now,
from the comfort of their living rooms, they can begin to start
the process of getting back to work.

Unfortunately, the station still needs to refine the editing
of the show. There are protracted segments which do not come to a
proper conclusion and may well be boring to most viewers,
particularly those tuning in for the first time.

The most important part of Career Vision for most job seekers
is the rolling text providing a listing of job vacancies.
However, there is a problem because the text moves too fast and
is too small to discern accurately.

For those quick and eagle-eyed enough to read it, there is
another problem, and one which will be crucial to anybody who is
looking to send their CV out to an interested company. For some
reason, the text does not include the addresses of the companies;
job seekers must contact the station for that information, which
will only serve to complicate their efforts.

Business segments of the 30-minute show focus on business
practices, professional profiles and businesses run by public
figures, all of which make for interesting viewing. They detail
how to run a profitable business, tips from professionals on
being a success and also how people set up home industries or
small enterprises.

Career Vision provides an interactive recruitment service for
job seekers and headhunters. However, it is obviously limited by
time constraints, and inevitably the information is not as
complete as that which is available on www.JobsDB.com or
www.karir.com.

Hosted by TV presenter Charles Bonar Sirait, best known for
being the former host of a music program, the show also features
a short talk with a headhunters' consultant, providing
information that viewers might be able to obtain in a business
seminar.

Charles said in an interview last week that his view of the
show was that it helped people find jobs which were in line with
their particular skills.

The debut show two weeks ago featured segments on a VCD
entrepreneur, a discussion with a headhunter, a bank credit card
manager and former model Ratih Sanggarwati, now a successful
businesswoman in her own right.

ANteve will air all 13 programs during the next three months.

"The episodes are not live, but there will be if there is a
career exposition," said the station's corporate communications
manager, Zoraya Perucha.

The program, despite its deficiencies, will be a help to the
unemployed, especially those with marketable skills but who have
been unable to get the message about themselves over to
employers.

If it can set right the few initial problems, it is likely to
have many viewers -- and more to come in the future. Minister of
Manpower and Transmigration Al Hilal Hamdi revealed in October
that "official" unemployment reached over 3.7 million people,
with an estimated 2.4 million job seekers entering the market
next year.

ANteve, PT Career Vision Nusantara and PT Jobs DB Indonesia
recognize the potential market target -- and the fact that their
audience is at home but not by choice.

"Even though this program must compete with the soaps, we
aren't afraid because we know Career Vision has its own market
segment," said Zoraya. (Sri Ramadani)