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The Future of Cruise Ship Jobs

[ Posted April 14th, 2008 ]

While it’s great to write these tips in this blog and give people new ideas, techniques and inside information they can use to get cruise ship jobs. It’s also good to take a step back occasionally and look at the cruise industry as a whole, to see exactly where it’s going.

Some of you will be considering a job on a cruise ship as a genuine long-term career option, while other’s see working on a cruise ship as a one-off life experience; where you get to see a bit of the world, have fun and get paid for it - safely and in style!

Either way, it’s important to know exactly where the cruise line industry is headed so that you can make your plans accordingly. A brand new study published by Seatrade has just revealed two findings that will have profound implications for you the cruise job seeker:

1. Cruise line companies are now placing a huge emphasis on visiting new destinations, namely Europe, Asia and countries in the Pacific Ocean.

2. By 2010 there will be an estimated 20 million cruise passengers (in 2007 there were 16 million passengers)

What does this mean for crew members and job seekers?

It means that not only will there be a much greater demand for new crew members, but it means that you’ll also have the opportunity to visit a MUCH wider range of exciting destinations. When I worked on cruise ships, just a few years ago, the opportunities for getting on a ship that visited the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji etc were nowhere near as good as they are today. Believe it or not, cruising around the Caribbean 7 days a week, as glamorous as it sounds, begins to get a little boring after 3 contracts!

But now the opportunities for traveling to some seriously exciting places via cruise ship are better than they’ve ever been.Statendam, Holland America Line

One of our WorkOnCruiseShips.com members was hired this week to work on the Statendam (Holland America Line) within the onboard gift shops. He joins his ship on April 30th and he will start his cruise ship career sailing from Hong Kong to Alaska. You can read his message in our discussion forum here. 

 
Now that’s what working on cruise ships is all about - and he’s a very happy guy! And you could be doing this too.
 

These are exciting times for crew members, so if you want  a job that pays you to travel to some of the most exotic destinations on earth, then as the latest research shows, there has never been a better time to get a job on a cruise ship than right now.


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How To Make Yourself Irresistible to Cruise Line Employers!

[ Posted April 1st, 2008 ]

A proven way of becoming irresistible to any cruise line employer is to become reasonably competent in a second language. Cruise ships visit many different countries and attract passengers of all nationalities, so the demand for crewmembers with foreign language skills has never been greater.

Now before you groan :) in just a moment I’m going to show you exactly how anyone can become competent in a second language within a very short period of time by using specific speed learning techniques - even if you flunked languages at school, like me!

The universal language onboard is English and it’s likely to stay like this for a while yet. But the demand for crew who understand the basics in one of the following languages is increasing:

  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian

    • Now "understanding the basics" of a second language, doesn’t mean being FLUENT! If you can ‘get by’ and perhaps make a foreign passengers’ life easier by assisting them in some way; whether that’s offering directions, telling them the price of an item or taking an order at the bar, then you’re an asset to a cruise line employer.

    Right, here’s a quick example using what’s called a ‘Pattern Technique’. This technique alone will give you instant access to 253 really useful words:

    Almost all English words that end with IC can be made into Spanish by changing IC to ICO.
     

    English Spanish
    Plastic Plástico
    Traffic Tráfico
    Tropic Trópico
    Allergic Alérgico

    All you need to do is learn some simple rules (patterns) like this one, in order to translate English words into Spanish and you have an instant vocabulary of 1000’s of Spanish words that you didn’t realize you had.

    That makes you pretty competent in my book!  And there are lots of other easy-to-learn techniques like this too.

    Okay, this is not a language lesson, but you get the idea. If you have even a basic understanding of a second language such as Spanish, French, Italian or German then it can put you in a very advantageous position when it comes to getting hired by a cruise line company, because having a sentence like "Spanish speaking skills" on your resume will immediately make you stand out from the vast majority of cruise ship job seekers.

    We have just added a whole course to http://www.WorkOnCruiseShips.com called Speed Spanish that will make anyone a competent Spanish speaker in a very short period of time by using techniques like the one I have just shared.  This course normally sells for $27.00 - but it’s completely free to members ;-0)

    Thoughts or comments on this post? 
    Please consider posting them to the cruise ship jobs discussion forum

     Neil Maxwell-Keys
    Author - "Get a Cruise Ship Job!"
    Founder -     www.WorkOnCruiseShips.com


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