Best Months to Apply for Cruise Ship Jobs
Although there is not necessarily a perfect time to apply for a cruise ship job, some months of the year are better than others – when the cruise lines double their efforts to recruit enough staff for high season periods such as summer and Christmas. Therefore, the best possible time for you to start applying for cruise ship jobs is the couple of months leading up to those prime holiday periods.
A lot of potential cruise ship job applicants are considering applying for cruise ship jobs within the next few months in order to be hired for the summer. Don’t wait. The sooner you apply, the sooner you can get started on following up on your application. Because being hired comes down to timing, send your resume out to hiring companies as soon as you can so that you can arrange interviews, get a job offer and be placed on a ship. April and May are the best months to apply if you want to try to get hired to work during the busy summer vacation.
Then, once other applicants send in their resumes and cover letters for potential summer employment, it’s entirely possible that you may have already been offered a job and are simply waiting to be placed on a vessel.
The last thing you want is that your resume is received with the thousands of other resumes that are sent just prior to summer. Put yourself ahead of the competition by applying today so that you can secure your dream cruise job for tomorrow!
For the most part, many cruise ship jobs are not seasonal and hiring occurs throughout the year. However, a great opportunity for you to get your foot in the door, so to speak, is by applying for a seasonal job.
Being a youth counselor is a great example of this. Youth counselors are employed year round. However, during the peak seasons, the amount of children that are on board increases, so does the amount of youth counselors that are required. Although many of these counselors may be teachers (working during their own vacation), other counselors may have the intention to gain some on board experience in order to apply for a full time position.
Due to the turnover of current crew members and the launching of new cruise ships, generally, as I said, the hiring of new crew occurs throughout the entire year. Because during the summer vacation time, cruise ships are fully booked, more crew members are required on board in order to cope.
The cruise industry is a competitive industry to get hired into. Therefore, getting your resume and cover letter into the hiring managers before your competition starts thinking to send theirs in is a crucial first step.
About the Author
Neil Maxwell-Keys has hired thousands of crew for the biggest cruise lines in the world. He has written a popular *free* step-by-step guide which shows you how to
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