Abstract:
Malaysia is one of the maritime nation. Strategic location of the
country in the middle of sea route between west and east give us
huge benefit to venture and involved in Maritime Industry. Thus, it
requires high demand in sefaring career. Therefore, in Kuala
Terengganu the response from youth regarding this career is still
less. The objectives of this research are to determine the level of
exposure about seafaring careeer among youth in Kuala Terengganu
and to identify the reasons why they are not exposing to the career.
This research also is conducted as to recommend the ways for
improving the exposure of seafaring career to the youth. The primary
resources were obtained through the methods of questionnaires that
have been given to the secondary school students among form 4 and
form 5 students. Interview session is conducted with the counselor
of each school or any qualified person from the schools regarding the
exposure of seafaring career among youth in Kuala Terengganu. The
answers given from them also categorized as a primary resource.
Then, the secondary resources were obtained from the articles,
journal, newspapers and texts related to the research. Those data
obtained is analyzed to meet the objectives.
