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Cruise Ship Jobs!

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Step 1. "Apply for as many cruise lines as possible".

Step 2. "Apply to all the relevant agencies and concessionaires".

Step 3. "Make your resume stand out in appearance and content". How? Don't ask her stupid questions because you should know already how to write a knock out resume.

Step 4. Call the cruise lines to confirm the mailing address is correct. Information frequently changes due to changes and growth in the industry". Then why she has NOT updated her book since 2000 year? Oh, I forgot that I have also no right to ask stupid questions. We have to pay for (inter) national calls although she could provide us with the current instead of 5 years old contact details. I have a better and cheaper idea. Go to the cruise lines web sites and you will find their complete and up-to-date contact information. So do you like her "step-by-step system"? Do you think that someone will call You for an interview if you follow it?

This reminds me for a caricature from a newspaper. At a bar are sitting very excited and laughing woman while next her is a skeleton, which is already covered with dust and spider webs. Under it was written: "He was waiting for her to stop talking." I hope that you will not die next to the telephone while waiting someone from the cruise lines to call you after following her "proven, streamlined system". If for some very odd reason you buy this small book, let me wish you good luck. You will definitely need it to get a cruise ship job this way.

Since the outdated information and very brief style of presenting the topic are already discussed I want to point towards the actual advice in the book. Let's see her "Top 3 Tips to get the job."

1. "Apply to as many cruise lines as possible.

2. "Apply to all relevant employment agencies and concessionaires."

3. "Make your resume stand out from the rest in appearance and content."

Well, it seems that she doesn't care that a mass mailing costs a a small fortune and positive results are very doubtful. She tells you that your resume must stand pout BUT has written only 3 sentences on what to include in it and how to write it. With her "tips" your chances to "stand out" are zero! As a young and sexy lady she has definitely what to show on a 8x6 photo. However to "make 30-50 quality copies" will cost you another small fortune.

In the category's bestseller Cruise Ship Job in 14 Days the author advices to make one, maximum two resumes, which are targeted to a specific cruise line, position and hiring manager. Also he has written that The Professional Association of Resume Writers does NOT recommend sending any photos. That's why I prefer to skip the Numbers Game of Cynthia Ossenfort and follow "The LASER Strategy for Next Generation Applying" from Cruise Ship Job in 14 Days.

Let me show you an example from the book to support that it is written as a cable: "Chief Steward- Not entry-level. $2,400-$3,200 per month. Supervise Housekeeping Department." From her 3-4 cable-like sentences per job description there is hardly something new you can learn. Wherever you open her tiny book you will read something in this cable style. Disappointing. Nothing special. Only obvious, well known information. Practically useless.

I went through this booklet in about 1 hour and the only interesting thing, which I found out was the picture of the author on the back cover. It seems that the time on cruise ships has not taught her on high quality work because all sections of her book are very, very brief. The company profiles are 2-3 sentences no matter whether it is the multi-billion Carnival Cruises or Amazon Delta Steam Boat.

Regarding "New Ships" since 2001 all cruise ships listed in her book carry "Unknown Name". At least after I paid more than "Working on Cruise Ships" and "How to get a job with a cruise line", I expected fresh and relevant information. Since 2000 year so many things have changed BUT not and her book. Probably she is quite lazy and careless that her readers are getting only outdated and overpriced booklet.

It was a mistake to buy this book because it neither gave me any detailed and insider information nor it is updated in the last few years in order to use the addresses and telephone numbers in my applying. As you see I am very reasonably disappointed.

Complete disappointment is all I got from this tiny booklet. In the fast changing and very competitive cruise industry to rely on amazingly outdated booklet (2000), which barely scratch on the surface of so huge topics such as "How to get a cruise ship job?" and "What is to work onboard a cruise ship?" will only lead to application failures and disappointments.

That's why if you want complete, step-by-step, professional-grade instructions on impact cover letter and resume writing as well as acing an interview you can find them only in "Cruise Ship Job in 14 Days". Otherwise if you are looking for a book which focuses on the life onboard and contains many stories of people who have worked on a cruise ship the best two are "Working on Cruise Ship" and "How to get a job with a Cruise line and travel around the world".

5 long years this small book has NOT been updated! Can you imagine? This is the reason why most of the addresses, telephone and fax numbers are outdates and useless. When I read the company profiles there were cruise lines, which don't even exist any more due to mergers in the last 2 years. Personally I will return this book with information from 5 years ago after I found it out. Since you need the latest information on cover letter and resume writing as well as the current contact details of the cruise lines, buying this book is like buying newspaper from 5 years ago!

I personally expected and needed a lot more than just a good overview of this topic. She has succeeded to include all important sub-topics such as job descriptions, cruise line profiles, addresses directory and application writing. However each of them is long only few, small pages and provides only a brief summary.

If you're one of those people who sit around and moan about your dreary office job but are nervous to leave the security of your normal world, Cruise Ship Jobs! can save you. Cynthia does a great job here of taking the mystery out of the cruise business. I like how she doesn't stop at how to get the job; she lets you know what to expect when you get there...which is sonething that is very difficult to explain unless you've been there! I personally have worked contracts both as DJ and Cruise Staff for Celebrity Cruises and think that Cynthia's has given a thorough and accurate account of "the life". She's obviously had a great deal of experience, not only working different jobs, but for different companies as well. She's done all the work here...all we have to do is benefit from it!

For very busy people like me this is a good chance to get an overview of the cruise jobs in an hour. With 2-3 sentences job descriptions I got a general idea what the most common 30-40 jobs are. The short paragraph for each cruise line is a fast way to learn the basic information about them. However the small directory of addresses and telephone numbers is quite outdated because the book is not updated during the last 5 years. The author provides and 5 pages with the basic structure of a cover letter and resume as well as tips on what she thinks might help you to get noticed among thousands of applicants. In conclusion this cute small book is a good and brief introduction to the cruise jobs for busy people like me.