Persistence and Determination: The Key to Cruise Ships Jobs

The cruise industry is one of the most difficult to penetrate. The glamour of the sea via cruise ship jobs is a powerful magnet that attracts people from all over the world. Hence every coveted position on board is hard earned. Who wouldn't want to visit mystic places and exotic ports worldwide and be paid to do so?

A lucky few applicants get these plum assignments on the first try, but these are few and far between and such good fortune should not be taken as the norm.

But for most others, sheer dogged PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION is the only way to go for a job leading to the gangplank of a cruise liner. It may be a long wait and several attempts to success, so patience is a necessary virtue.

• Persistence and determination is needed when you receive a regret.

• Persistence and determination is necessary to shrug off disappointment.

• Persistence and determination helps to think up a new game plan.

• Persistence and determination gives you the strength to return to the fray.

As the old adage goes, success is not how hard you fall, it's how quick you rebound. You have to pick yourself off the mat like a groggy boxer getting back to his feet when listening to the long count. Shrug off the past and send in the next application.

Most job seekers for cruise ship vacancies lack this tenacity and fail at the first hurdle. More often than not they mail out a few applications receive some rejections, or sometimes none at all, then decide to call it a day, quit and move on to something else.

It's a matter of deep regret, as with the correct mindset and an ocean of determination they will inevitably succeed.

A classic example is a young lady I met recently obsessed with the idea of a job on a cruise ship. She received regrets by the sackful over several months but refused to give up. Possessed of bottomless faith in her quest, she persisted undeterred. Finally her doggedness paid off and today she blissfully sails the seven seas on a job of her choice.

This exemplifies the power of persistence and determination. Whatever the odds, she believed in herself and never gave up. Her focused perseverance paid dividends.