Guide for jobseekers on JOB2SEA

Like all systems, you can increase your output and effectiveness of JOB2SEA by knowing how the system

works. With this guide, we aim to help you to maximize the effect of the job board and increase your

chances to get not only a job, but the job that you look for. We also guide you so recruitment companies

can find you in the database and we will teach you how to create a C.V. with all relevant information

included.

How to use JOB2SEA: We have deliberately made it very easy to access JOB2SEA, you don´t have to register first and you can

even apply for a position without having any information registered in the system. It is however

recommended to minimum register with an email and name, in that way you get a login to your own

personal dashboard where you will be able to store jobs, register for email alerts and keep a central record

of your applications.

To get full benefit of the system, we strongly recommend that you complete your profile by answering all

questions and tick off relevant boxes. In that way, your profile can be found by recruiting companies.

In order to be able to apply from any computer or your smart phone at any time anywhere in the world, we

also strongly recommend that you upload an updated CV. You can even upload a “scraped” CV stripped

from sensitive information and you can make this visible for recruiters.

This is an issue where some get confused so we will describe this in details:

When you register the first time, you will meet to options:

1. Create jobs by email

2. Create your profile

Below this, you find an option marked with blue writing “Proceed to your account” and when you click this

you will see following:

Here you have following options:

The top blue box is your account dash board.

Here, you can edit your name, edit your email address, change your password and edit your preferences

regarding emails etc.

Just below the blue box, you can delete your account. Be careful, this process is irreversible. You will have

to type in your password to delete your account. Please note that you can de-activate your account and

make it invisible for all instead of deleting your account. In this way, you can just re-activate if your need it

later.

Below you find following options marked with green buttons:

1. Complete your profile (changing to “edit your profile” if you have already added information)

2. Edit your stored CV

3. Your jobs by email

4. Your job applications

5. Your shortlist

Complete your profile

This is the section where you can update details about your profile. When you click this, you will see

following:

Career summary:

Here you write in short about your profile – it doesn´t have to be long, but more important, it should be

personal and obviously in English.

First section is about your current CV where you will see a list of multiple options tick off boxes. This section

is about your experience and you should be very accurate and only tick boxes of that match your

qualifications.

Your current CV

• What sectors do you have experience working in?

• What STCW qualifications do you have? (not mandatory )

• What is your current job title?

• How long have you been in your current role?

• Where are you currently based?

• What is your current annual salary? (not mandatory)

• What training courses do you have? (not mandatory)

• What is your education level?

• What type of education do you have?

• Do you have experience from see?

• If experience from sea – what ship types have you been working on? (not mandatory)

• Age?

Next questions is related to your new role:

Your new role

• For job at sea – what is your preferred ship type?

• When are you available to start your new role?

• Where would you like your new role to be based?

• What sectors would you like to work in?

Third and last section is other information:

Other information

• Are you eligible to work in UK?

• Are you eligible to work in Europe?

• Are you eligible to work in Norway?

• Are you eligible to work in U.S.A.?

• Nationality?

• Languages spoken?

Above information is extremely important to complete due to these reasons:

• We can send you special job target emails with jobs that match your profile on above parameters

• We can find you and get in contact with you if companies have jobs matching your qualifications

• We can send information out that is relevant for your profile

• Recruiting companies can find you

Remember to save by clicking the green button

Congratulations you have now finished the updating of info on your profile – now you will need only one

thing to complete it – uploading your CV.

This CV is the one that you can choose to make visible for recruiters and JOB2SEA – so make sure that no

sensitive information is included in case that you are still in job, strip off name, contact details, company

names etc.

Upload the CV.

Find a guide to create a great CV later on in this manual.

When uploading you will automatically be directed to the main tab “Your profile”

Her you will see this:

In the top you have 6 tabs:

1. Overview

2. Edit profile

3. Attach new CV

4. Manage visibility

5. Exclude employers

6. Delete profile

Overview

This section starts with information about your visibility. This is deliberately, since it is a very important

issue. Managing your confidentiality is of high importance to us – but at the same time profiles who want

to be visible and profiles that have created a “scraped” CV should have the option of being found by

recruiters. Always check this and make sure you have a full understanding of how this works. You can easily

double check your CV by clicking the blue link in the right of the text “Current CV file”.

Otherwise, this section is just a quick overview of your profile.

Edit profile

Use this tab when you want to make chances to your profile

Attach new CV

Here you can replace the CV connected to your profile – the one that can be made visible for recruiters.

Manage visibility

Here you can chose if recruiters can see you or not

Exclude employers

This section is for exclusion of employers in our database. If you want to exclude an employer that is not

yet present in our database, drop us an email at support@job2sea.com and we add the company.

Delete Profile

As previously described, here you can easily delete your profile

If you have completed above steps your profile is now completed.

CV for your applications

In order to apply from any computer or from your smart phone, we have created the possibility of

uploading a second CV – this CV should include all – including sensitive – information. This CV will ONLY be

used for your applications.

Click in the main tab on “Your account”

Click the green button “Add your CV”

You can choose to use the same or you can upload a full CV – we strongly recommend that you use

different CV´s since they serve different purposes.

Job by emails

Next button in your account is “Jobs by email” – in other job boards called and email alert. You can click this

and tick off your criteria’s, but we actually recommend that you use the system slightly different here. Since

a relatively large percentage of our jobs is imported automatically, not all criteria’s are being attached to

every job. That means, that if you e.g. tick of tanker in ship type, and then we import a job on a tanker, it

may not be fully categorized and you will not receive an alert. Many companies recruit on a running basis,

meaning that it is important that you send your application as soon the job is uploaded. We recommend

that you instead of creating job by emails this way, you click “find a job” in the main menu.

You will then see this:

In the left side you can browse on all jobs on the site.

Alternatively, you can click the top tab “search” and you will see this:

This section is very important if you want to get full effect of your email alert

You will see a list of parameters in the left side:

• Keywords

• Sector

• Ship Type

• Location

• Contract type

• Hours

• Language

• Contract type

Keywords is a google like search field – you can try to search with this field.

For above mentioned reasons, we recommend that you don´t use the parameter “shiptype” until further

notice – you may risk that you will not get emails on relevant jobs.

We recommend that you try various parameters, and the check the results.

When you are satisfied with the output, you click

Back in your account you will see these buttons next:

Your Job applications

If you click this, you will get a complete overview of the jobs that you have send applications to.

Your shortlist

By clicking this, you can see all jobs that you have short listed. When browsing the site, you can short list a

job you find interesting by clicking on the text in the right site:

Guide to create a great CV

Many people contact JOB2SEA to see if they can get a good template for the CV. We don’t send one out

because we don’t want all applicants on JOB2SEA to use the same template. You can easily create one or

download one on internet. What we focus on is some few very important points that you should note:

• You CV should never be longer than max. 4 pages

• Reply in same language as the job advertisement

• Make sure you have a passport size picture included in top right corner, this picture should be

official, in shirt or uniform

• Make sure you have no spelling or typing errors

• Always convert to a PDF – word shows differently on various computers, PDF will ensure that the

receiver see it same way as job seeker, and it is much more professional

• Make it look good – get help if you don´t feel confident with this

• Make sure that your master data is always included:

o Age

o Address

o Mobile

o Email

o Full name

o Nationality

o Languages

• Chronological review: Make sure it is not too long, if you have several positions in same company,

you can put them together to shorten the CV.

• Make everything in English

JOB2SEA have experienced several times that profiles get rejected due to bad CV´s missing information or

being too long.

This is the background for us to offer jobseekers review and optimizing of CV including spell checking and

inputs for improvements.

This service is offered to job seekers world-wide for 75 EURO and it may be a very good investment that

should be considered.

If relevant for you, please forward your CV to sales@job2sea.com

If you follow above advice we can ensure you that you will get maximum benefit out of being on JOB2SEA.

If you have any comments or suggestions for improving the site – please forward an email to

support@job2sea.com