Maritime CV: What Actually Works and What Gets Ignored A maritime CV is read differently from a CV in any other industry. The person reading it is looking for specific information in a specific order. If that information is not where they expect it, they move to the next application. Not because they are lazy. […]
Offshore Wind Jobs at Sea: The Fastest-Growing Maritime Employment Sector Ten years ago offshore wind was a niche sector with a small fleet of small vessels. In 2026 it is a major maritime employer with installation vessels, service operation vessels and crew transfer vessels operating in the North Sea, Baltic, East Coast of the United […]
Pumpman Jobs at Sea: A Tanker-Specific Rating That Pays Above Average The pumpman does not exist on dry cargo ships. Bulk carriers have no pumpman. Container ships have no pumpman. The role is specific to liquid cargo vessels and the responsibility it carries is more operationally significant than most unlicensed positions in the merchant fleet. […]
Ro-Ro and Car Carrier Jobs at Sea: The Sector Most Guides Skip Roll-on roll-off vessels and pure car carriers carry wheeled cargo that drives on and off rather than being lifted by crane. New vehicles from Japan, Korea and Germany moving to markets across the world. Heavy equipment, trucks and trailers on mixed ro-ro services. […]
ETO Jobs at Sea: The Position That Stays Vacant Longer Than Any Other Electro-Technical Officer vacancies sit open on vessels for longer than any other position in the crew list. Not because the role is unimportant. Because the qualification pipeline is narrow, the combination of skills required is genuinely uncommon and the supply of people […]
Chief Officer Jobs at Sea: More Work Than the Title Suggests People think the chief officer is a step toward becoming master. That framing is correct but incomplete. The chief officer role is not a waiting room for command. It is one of the most operationally demanding positions on a cargo vessel, carrying more active […]
The bosun is the most senior rating in the deck department. On a well-run vessel the bosun is one of the most valuable people aboard, regardless of where the position sits in the formal hierarchy. The chief officer depends on the bosun to turn instructions into organised practical work. The rating team looks to the […]
Second Engineer Jobs at Sea: The Engine Department’s Operational Manager The chief engineer has authority and the final word. The second engineer has authority and the actual work. This distinction matters when you are considering whether a second engineer career is what you want, because the second engineer position is the most administratively demanding engineering […]
Most maritime CVs that fail do not fail because the person is unqualified. They fail because the CV does not present the qualification clearly enough for a recruiter to confirm it quickly. A maritime recruiter processing a high volume of applications will spend thirty seconds on an initial read. If the key information is not […]
Bosun Jobs at Sea: The Person Who Actually Runs the Deck The bosun is not an officer. There is no STCW examination specifically for the position. It does not appear in the STCW table of certificates the way Third Officer or Chief Engineer does. What the bosun is, in practice, is the person the chief […]