So you have worked at sea your entire career and are thinking about coming ashore, but you're not sure what to expect or even where to start. What sort of career paths are available? Where do the best opportunities lie? Do ex-seafarers make good office workers? How much money will you make? These are just a few of a number of questions addressed in a new report by … [Read more...]
Maritime Salaries Rise Despite Industry Woes [REPORT]
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Maritime and offshore industry recruitment group, Faststream, has released their annual Maritime Salary Review, looking at salary trends across a number maritime and offshore sectors. The report, based on responses of over 4,000 shipping professionals from offshore to cruise, found that despite shipping industry woes, salaries across nearly all sectors continue to rise. In … [Read more...]
Faststream Report: There is a demand for ex-seafarers in office based positions
Faststream Recruitment, a worldwide shore-side and seagoing maritime recruitment agency, has released their annual Maritime Employment Review, a report conducted from internal data covering the market for technical shipping employees and employers worldwide. Since the Group's last technical shipping market report released in April 2010, Faststream says they have seen a … [Read more...]
Coming Ashore? 10 Things You Should Do When Interviewing
10 Things You Should Do When Interviewing by Matt Furhman - Faststream Earlier this week we brought you the Top 10 Things You Shouldn't Do When Interviewing. Hopefully you did a self evaluation and were able to catch yourself guilty of too many infractions. This week we right the ship to bring you more helpful tips. Now let's take a look at 10 things you SHOULD do in an … [Read more...]
Coming Ashore? 10 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Interviewing
10 Things You Shouldn't Do When Interviewing By Matt Fuhrman - Faststream For most, coming ashore may be easy but nailing that perfect job is tough. Here are ten things you should shy away from when interviewing for that new position. … [Read more...]
Faststream Launches Seagoing Recruitment
gCaptain is very pleased to bring you the following message from gCaptains's most dedicated sponsor, Faststream Recruitment. … [Read more...]
Maritime Employment Review 2008 – “Commercial Shipping Still Candidate Short”
Faststream has come out with their annual Employment Review for the Maritime Industry. Managing director Mark Charman notes: “Our clients are telling us that they expect to continue hiring people in the New Year. Driving this is the huge growth of the global merchant fleet which continues to expand at a relentless pace and needs a wide range of skilled professionals to … [Read more...]