10 Tips for Creating a Winning Cruise Ship Jobs Employment Package that Gets You the Interview!
[ Posted January 11th, 2008 ]These cruise ship jobs Tips are courtesy of WorkOnCruiseShips.com member Indy from the Philippines.
Quite recently Indy received not one, but TWO cruise ship job offers, from two different cruise lines and for two totally different positions onboard.
Now, if you’ve been trying to get hired by a cruise line for any length of time, then you’ll know that this is quite an achievement!
Indy has kindly agreed to share his advice for putting together a great cruise ship application package that gets you the interview.
Here’s Indy’s "Top Tips":
Tip 1: List down in a notebook all the work you’ve done in the past; employed work AND other non-paid jobs, your skills and trainings you acquired. You also need to list down in it any certificates you have.
Tip 2: After doing so, rewrite them again from top to bottom listing what your best strengths are to the "least" strength you think you have.
Tip 3: Next, find out what cruise jobs are currently available. You can do that by visiting the Cruise Ship Job Vacancies.
Tip 4: From these available positions think about which ones best match your experiences, skills, qualifications, personality and desires.
Tip 5: After deciding on your desired cruise positions construct your resume immediately. Carefully check your resume for errors (even the margins are important!) and make it somewhat "colorful".
Tip 6: Choose words that are positive and give the cruise employer the impression that you are confident. Never write things that are "over" of what you really are made of. And do not "undervalue" yourself also. Just choose the right words. .
Tip 7: Try to target your resume for each specific position that you apply for. This is really important in the cruise line industry.
Tip 8: When you’ve finished your resume, let your family and friends "criticize" it. I did mine.
Tip 9: When you are satisfied with your resume, then FORMULATE your cover letter. Your cover letter should LEAD the recruiter to READ your resume. Your resume should LEAD the recruiter to CONTACT you and BEG for an interview.
When everything’s ready, then it’s time to send it.
Tip 10: Don’t take too long over this process. If you can, try to start with it today and apply tomorrow. If need be, burn the "midnight oil" so that you can land that interview within the week.
Bonus Tip 1: Make sure you send it to the RIGHT address with the RIGHT name of the contact person in the RIGHT position.
Bonus Tip 2: While you’re waiting, brush up on your skills for the job and try to ask yourself some questions that they might ask you in an interview.
Bonus Tip 3: Use a notebook to log down ALL of your cruise ship job hunting activities, including: the positions that you apply for, the date and time that you applied, the name and position of recruiter, the name of the agency and their website and physical address.
This is great advice from a guy who has landed himself TWO cruise ship job offers in a matter of weeks. In fact his biggest headache now is choosing which company to work for! (Incidentally this started an interesting discussion in our cruise job forum which you can read here.)
Neil Maxwell-Keys
Author - "Get a Cruise Ship Job!"
Founder - www.WorkOnCruiseShips.com
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