Dealing With Gaps In Your Cruise Job Application


by Neil Maxwell Keys

In your employment history holes can lead to trouble though it's not unusual to have gaps on a cruise job application. These spaces or gaps in your career experience may be a red flag for future employers if the facts are left up to your imagination.

You need to apply some damage control once you see that you have a hole to avoid the gaping hole from endangering your chance at landing your dream cruise job.

What is the finest means to justify an employment gap on a resume?

Should you still list the job where you were fired? What if there was a sick member of your family that you need to look after and you had to take a year off, how do you write that on your resume?

A larger gap requires full disclosure, though employment gaps of less than 6 months can be easily disguised by creative formatting of your resume. You need to be straightforward with the facts because the size of an employment gap will make the recruiters think why. With an honest explanation you need to be in charge of how those gaps are addressed by turning your career gap into an asset on your cruise ship resume.

Rather than leaving it as a hole in your resume you should be able to fill the gap for the most part. During the time you were off if you can promote the skills you acquired prolonged unemployment doesnít have to be a liability. What abilities did you acquire all through out that period? What did you find out from your travels? You need to be able to reverse your employment lapse into a character building life experience.

Your resume, is it boring?

Is your resume a comprehensive overview of job descriptions, if so it's boring!

Employers want to spot accomplishments rather than a dreary list of duties and responsibilities. The fact is that this is a usual error on the cruise ship resumes that most recruiters see.

A marketing tool designed to sell your skills and strengths is what your resume should be. Your exceptional accomplishments have to be included. Focus on what you have achieved rather than what your position was. Explain accomplishments that are exceptional to you. Use percentages, dollars and numbers of employees to quantify your accomplishments.

How your employer benefited from your work using numbers helps you express in tangible terms. What the general job description are, the employers already know that. Special projects that you successfully completed, your promotions or how you decreased costs or increased sales are samples of accomplishments that you have to explain.

Crew members that can meet the requirements of the company are what recruitment managers want. You cannot fulfill their desires if in other companies you haven't been in similar situations.

Within the job description list your accomplishment.

Ask yourself, having done what I did what was the benefit?

How did you take initiative? How did you go above and beyond? To promote your capabilities, identify and highlight those aspects of your career. Employees that will add value to their company is what employers search for. You have to toot your own horn.

About the Author

Former crewmember, hiring specialist and best-selling author Neil Maxwell-Keys has written an extensive FREE report which shows how to get jobs on cruise ships, quickly and easily. Claim your copy now => http://www.workoncruiseships.com/free

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