If you want your resume to impress recruiters in the maritime industry, it needs to be appealing, focused and tailored to the role you are seeking. Most job seekers need professional assistance with this.
Your resume is a reflection of who you are and how you want to be perceived, it should exhibit your competencies and experience to ensure maximum impact on the reader. In the same way as you would attend an interview looking professional and smart, your resume needs to arrive looking the same. A resume is the first impression you make on the company you are seeking employment with. Many homemade resumes are poorly formatted, unattractive and contain weak disorganised content and given that a resume can be filtered through a screening process in about 10 seconds, it is imperative that it peaks a prospective employers interest immediately.
Generally we have found that the expertise of mariners does not lie in formatting documents. To be fair, why would you waste your time learning the skill of typesetting when there are so many demanding aspects of your job that you need to keep abreast of? There is of course the cost of getting a resume professionally written, but that needs to be weighed up with what it will cost you if you don’t. Everybody is aware of the multitude of resume writing business around, undoubtedly there are many excellent writers out there, however we are the only ones that we know of that specialise in writing resumes for marine professionals.
A professional maritime resume, written with proficiency vs. an average homemade resume can mean the difference between getting an interview or not.