Seaman Job Bank International

Seaman Jobs are well paid ones. But these days they should be for professional people where they must undergo for vigorous training courses. Not only for this they are well paid but each seaman must be well prepared to face hazards like fire, flooding, collision, bad whether, grounding, food and water shortages and many other things. Further more they have to stay away from their families during their contract period. Like these things make the job a well paid one. IMO is doing their best to make the seaman job a safer one and ships to be a safer place to work.

Seaman Job bank is an online meeting place for Marine related job seekers and job providers. In the Job Bank those shipping companies and recruiting companies can register and post their available postings easily. The merchant navy professionals who are looking for jobs as Masters, Chief Officers, Chief engineers, Second Engineers, Chief Cooks along with other officer rank, crew rank Jobs can be searched over here. Also eligible Merchant marine officers and seaman can keep their profiles in the database for easy look up, if they are searched by the Shipping companies or Shipping Agencies.

Most of the Merchant ships need professionally trained, certified and some cases experienced people to serve on board vessels according to International Maritime Law.
Some cruise ship jobs are little different from Merchant ship as they don't need much certification in the entertainment and personal care fields. Also if you haven't sailed for the last one year then you must visit your maritime school or recruiting agent to find out whether any certificate update is necessary for you. Check with them whether your certificates are acceptable for the current STCW. In some courtiers you will need to re register with the Ministry of shipping if didn't sail for the more than one year. Don’t be hurry to take medical fitness certificate unless you are ready to sign a job contract. Some time the crewing agent or manning agent will recommend you their own Medical officer to whom you have to go for to get the medical certificate.