What does your cruise ship resume say about you? Are you not getting any responses and yet you are submitting tons of applications? You have to get a job interview out of your resume. If it’s not getting you one, then it is not an effective career tool.
To make somebody notice you is the main purpose of the resume. You want to stand apart from the crowd of other applicants. It doesn’t matter how qualified you are, how great of a personality you have, or that you think you are the best person for the job. If you can promote yourself on paper, you can get an interview.
For starters, with your previous experience does your resume fully represent it? Stating every single job that you’ve had since you were old enough is not what it means, that’s just boring!
Rather, you want to expand heavily on positions that have relevance to the cruise job that you are applying for.
Make sure you list the skills that benefit the employer rather than just regurgitating a list of job descriptions. Identifying your accomplishments with specifics is essential in winning the attention of the hiring manager. You want to explain your on-the-job-performances and how they connect to your future job on a cruise ship.
The person who reads must have a clear idea why you are the best person for the job and a clear understanding of who you are. Aside from being easy on the eyes with right fonts, bullets, white space and nothing too distracting, your resume should read well, too.
This means your cruise ship resume should flow well, not be dreary or repetitive, and offer stimulating info about you. Your personality and energy needs to shine through the resume enough for the hiring manager to want to call you.
Your resume must prompt the hiring manager into calling you, that’s the main thing. It’s not you if you haven’t been offered and interview yet, most likely it’s your resume.
When you’ve done with your resume and you are positive with it then as well as sending it to cruise line companies, you should also send it in to concessionary companies and agencies in the industry.
What is the difference between Cruise Line Concessionaires and Agencies?
A cruise ship hiring agency should not be confused with a cruise concessionaire; although many cruise applicants make this assumption. When should you use an agency and how do you know what the difference is in the application process?
Concessionaires are third party vendors that sell services or merchandise on board and that’s the simple fact. For example spa, gift shops and the photography department are all departments that the cruise lines use concessionaires for to handle the recruitment.
In truth, it’s not the cruise line but the concessionaire you work for.
Then again, cruise line agencies qualify potential crew members for positions with a cruise line. The cruise lines pay the agencies a fee for this service, for each new crew member that is successfully hired and placed on board.
For their cruise line clients most agencies cover a wide range of cruise lines, departments and positions on board. Also, some agencies are even referred to as an official hiring partner for the cruise line. Just be careful of cruise job scams, though.
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Neil Maxwell-Keys is a former crewmember, hiring expert and founder of WorkOnCruiseShips.com: a site dedicated to showing you how to realize your dream of landing cruise ship jobs. Get Neil’s *free* insider’s report by visiting => http://www.CruiseJobsInsider.com
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