Most people who work on cruise ships are hired in their home country by a licensed agency acting for the cruise line, not by applying to a ship. The ocean lines run large hotels at sea, so the bulk of the work is housekeeping, restaurants, bars, galleys and guest services, alongside deck and engine officers, … Read more
Cabin crew are hired by three main kinds of employer: long-haul network airlines such as Emirates, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines and British Airways; low-cost and regional carriers such as Ryanair, easyJet and Jetstar; and crew agencies that supply staff to airlines on contract. The work is the same at its core, safety duties first and … Read more
Software and IT jobs are offered by many kinds of employer: product companies and startups, banks and payment firms, consultancies and outsourcing companies, governments, and remote-first firms with no main office. The work covers backend, frontend and mobile development, data engineering and machine learning, cloud and DevOps, security and testing. Contracts range from permanent employment … Read more
Teaching jobs abroad come through three channels that hire on different calendars: government assistant programs with one fixed application window a year, private language schools that hire year-round, and international K-12 schools that recruit eight to ten months before an August start. Pay differs as much as timing. Japan’s JET Programme gives first-year pay of … Read more
International trade and logistics jobs are advertised in three places that rarely overlap: sector boards for forwarding, warehousing and procurement; the careers sites of carriers and logistics groups; and the UN and development boards that carry trade policy and trade facilitation work. Demand is uneven across the sector. BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping … Read more