Careers For Officer Cadets
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Careers for Officer Cadets
To become a Navigation (Deck), Marine Engineer or Marine Electro-Technical Officer in the UK’s merchant navy, you must complete a maritime education and training programme to achieve professional seafaring certification and related educational qualifications, with training taking place at sea and at college.
To become a Hotel Trainee with a ferry company or cruise line, you will typically already have hotel working experience and hold or be undertaking suitable hospitality qualifications before being enrolled on an appropriate onboard development programme to prepare you for working in a passenger ship’s Hotel department.
For further information, please select the appropriate link below:
Operational Departments & Routines
Personal Qualities & Attributes
No matter what career path you choose, we will find the right place for you!
A six-part television programme produced by Scottish Television in conjunction with CareersatSea.org provides some very useful insights in to working at sea in the Merchant Navy:
Further information for you to consider
Additional information about maritime careers is available from the following industry sources:
Ready for the next step?
For further information about maritime careers, please contact us at: [email protected]
Once you are ready to apply for a cadetship, please email your application letter and Curriculum Vitae (CV) to us at: [email protected], and confirm your preferred training discipline (i.e. Deck Cadetship, Engineer Cadetship, METO Cadetship or Hotel Trainee).
