How long should you wait for a cruise ship job is one of the most common questions that we get on our discussion forum. Unfortunately, there is no standard time frame for how long the hiring process takes from start to finish.
In fact, we’ve had members who were hired in a matter of days but we’ve also heard from some members who’ve reported waiting over a year to finally getting hired and placed on a ship.
One of our members, Jaime from Australia, just posted last week that she just received her flight details.
She writes:
"But to anyone getting discouraged, please don’t. It took me a year to land this job, and then another 5 months to get scheduled, but I can honestly tell you right now, I have never been more proud of myself. I can’t wait to start this new chapter!!"
Her journey has been long with a few bumps in the road. In February she had explained on our Discussion Forum about her experience dealing with one agency that had interviewed her and 3 weeks later told her she didn’t get the job.
In March, Jaime discusses an upcoming interview for a job as a Steiner receptionist. And then and she writes on the forum in April about what happened at her interview…Fast forward to June, and Jaime posts on the forum about being offered a job, but not with Steiner.
She writes:
"I finally got offered a position with Holland America as a Librarian".
As you can see Jaime’s persistence and patience paid off in the end and she will be joining the Prinsendam which will be sailing the Caribbean and then South America. It’s people like Jaime that simply refuse to give up and keep going until they land their dream cruise ship job.