21 Websites to Find Maritime Jobs Online – Part 2
[Updated January, 2017]
Searching for maritime jobs in this tough job market is not an easy task. Jobs are less, especially at the entry level, and competition is high. Professionals are ready to pay huge amount of money to recruitment agents in order to get their dream job, in spite of the fact that there is high risk involved in this method and there is no surety of landing a maritime job.
Across all levels and ranks, maritime professionals are always looking for a better opportunity, whether on ships or on shore. Through there are myriad of ways available today for job hunting, searching online is the most quickest and easiest way to find your dream job. With the sudden rise in popularity of online job hunting, several maritime job boards and career websites feature job opportunities from various departments of the shipping industry have come up.
As an aggressive job search strategy, it is important for a maritime professional to bookmark all these maritime websites, submit their CVs on them, and keep a track of all the latest job offers by either visiting those websites regularly or subscribing to their RSS feeds.
This article is in continuation to our article, 21 Websites to Find Maritime Jobs Online. We hope that you find these maritime jobs resources helpful in your job search.
1. Maritime Jobs – MaritimeJobs.org is efficient and free tool for finding maritime crew vacancies provided by leading maritime companies worldwide.
2. Seaman Job Site – Seaman Job Site mainly focuses on maritime jobs in Philippines, however, the website claims of listing more than 1000 job offers. Definitely worth giving it a try, especially if you belong to that part of the world.
3. Trade Wind Jobs – This is a free online job portal from Tradewinds. The website features maritime jobs from the world’s leading shipping companies.
4. Marine Recruitment – Marine Recruitment is a UK based website which claims of featuring maritime jobs from around the world. Presently though not many jobs are featured, it’s worth having a look.
5. 7 Oceans – This is a premium job portal with 100s of jobs added everyday. 7 Oceans claims to be the biggest maritime job portal in Europe.
6. Job on Ship – This website lists maritime job offers from manning and shipping companies along with their contact details. Mainly lists jobs for Indian Seafarers.
7. Shore Marine – As the name suggests, shore marine is a website dedicated for shore based shipping jobs. They are recruitment specialists and providers of shore based shipping staff.
8. Nautilus International Jobs – Nautilus International Jobs by the union of maritime professionals at sea and shore, though mainly features jobs from the U.K., have some of the top shipping companies listed on the board.
9. Shipping Jobs – Spinnaker – Spinnaker covers a job vacancies of almost all sectors of the maritime industry, and is among one of the oldest and trusted job portals
10. Navis Consulting – Navis consulting offers special services in recruitment in maritime and offshore industry. Also, checkout Halcyon recruitment which specializes in maritime recruitment services.
11. Seaman Jobsite – Seaman Jobsite provides sea based jobs along with maritime news and advisories for seamen, job profiles and other maritime tools that are essential for seafarers.
12. Global Shipping Careers – Global Shipping Careers provides a wide variety of jobs that can be filtered on the basis of location, ship types and contract types as well.
13. Elite Maritime Selection – Elite Maritime Selection is a specialist recruitment partner for the international maritime and commercial marine industries sourcing exceptional talent worldwide – from Engineers to Executives.
14. Flagship Management – Flagship Management has number of clients and associates who provide personal recruitment solutions to the candidates looking for job.
15. Maritime Executive Recruiters – With offices based in Cyprus, Europe, U.A.E and Asia, Maritime Executive Recruiters scan and evaluate the resume/CV and help in finding a suitable job position.
16. Indeed – Indeed is yet another powerful job search engine which searches all online career and job websites. This is one powerful tool to search maritime jobs from around the world.
17. Naukri – One of the most famous career website of India, Naukri.com features almost all topmost companies of India and has several job opportunities from the shipping industry.
18. Career Builder – One of the most famous job and career websites in the world, Career Builder doesn’t require any kind of formal introduction. The website lists several jobs from the shipping industry. Just make a search with the right keyword.
19. Monster – One of the topmost website around the world, Monster features jobs from all kinds of industries. No matter which industry you belong, it will have job opportunities featured. Don’t miss out to search this important website while you are looking for maritime jobs.
20. Atlas 4 Jobs – Atlas 4 Jobs is also a search engine for marine jobs. The website provides you with maritime job recommendation based on the CV you upload for free. Definitely worth giving a try.
21. Simplyhired – Yet another famous website for job search. Though not a dedicated maritime job search website, simply hired often features jobs from the maritime industry.
21. Linkedin – As everyone is aware of, Linkedin is not basically a job search website. It is a professional social networking website with some amazing features. You can contact and interact with important people from the shipping industry and also look for maritime jobs in their job search section. Don’t forgot to join various Linkedin groups on maritime industry to keep a track of latest job offers.
Though the list of websites featuring maritime jobs and opportunities from the shipping industry is never ending, Marine Insight makes an attempt to find out and list those that are genuine and frequently updated. If you know any important maritime jobs website which we have missed in the list above, do let us know and we will add it here.
All the best for your search of the dream maritime job!
This is the 2nd part of our previous article, 21 Websites to Find Maritime Jobs Online. Please go through part 1 for some solid maritime jobs websites.
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Thank you Engineer Raunek…
I usually enjoy your post both on Linkedin and that of facebook.
Just that all these while,I haven’t till been able to get a maritime job.But I’ll go through the sites you listed here.
Another site that’s not listed is “maritime-union”
Mr Raunek, you are among those destined to touch lives positively. Thanks a million times.
Thanks a lot Mr Victor for those motivating words. More than happy to help..!!
Yes maritime-union.com and https://maritimejobs.org/ is very good sites for seagoing careers.
I have done one contract on AHTS vessel (4months) as 3rd engineer and now I want to continue in offshore field only.so can any suggest me how to join dp vessels and wer should I get this course completed and what would b the fee structure and which course I have to do as there r many types in DP’s.
I just finished my three years Marine Transportation course in Philippines, I’m looking for a one year seatime training to complete my BSC Degree certificate please i need a vessel to achieve my dream thanks for your understanding.
Thanks for sharing the links to find marine jobs. Very helpful links to those who are really looking for the marine jobs.