Resume
& Interview Tips
To
be completely honest, the competition for cruise ship jobs is fierce. In
this section, you will learn how to design a portfolio that will make
your qualifications shine.
It
is important to understand why a cruise line would want to hire you. For
example, you may have strong experience in customer service, or you may
have received formal culinary training, or perhaps you have bartending
experience. There is no use applying for a position that you have never
done before. You will not be hired. The less training the cruise line
has to invest in you, the better for them. Since the job competition is
fierce they can easily find someone with more experience.
To
convince the cruise line to hire you, your resume should not be
about how great you are. Instead, it should be about what skills you
have to offer the cruise line. Think about their advantages of
hiring you. If you can fully understand what your prospective employer
wants, you will know how to convincingly present yourself.
Spend
most of your efforts during this application process on making your
resume into the one that stands out in the crowd. Your resume should
be the most dynamic, professional and convincing application that
has yet passed through their hands.
Again,
ask yourself this question: what qualifications and experience do I have
that will convince the cruise line to hire me?
One
more point ... many onboard positions have been filled by total luck. It
may just so happen that the cruise line needs to fill a position right
away and your resume shows up at that exact moment. Don't count on this
being the way it will happen. However if this is the case, your resume's
first impression may be their deciding factor.
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