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Discover opportunities across superyachts, cruise, merchant shipping and shore-based roles. Build one profile, show what you can do, and choose who sees your details.
Always free for seafarers. No fee for recruitment or placement, ever.
The full platform opens soon. Join the waitlist and you are in the first group we let in.
What you get
Explore opportunities across the maritime industry without starting over each time.
See what needs renewing before it expires, with every certificate date in one place.
Your name and contact details stay hidden until you decide to share them.
No fee for recruitment or placement — required by MLC 2006, not a promotion.
Where you can work
A season on deck, a contract at sea, a career ashore. Build your profile once and it travels with you across all four.
Motor and sailing yachts: deck, engineering, interior, galley and specialist crew.
Includes charter, gulet and day-boat seasons on the Turkish, Greek and Croatian coasts.
Marine operations, hotel operations, hospitality, entertainment, medical and retail roles on passenger ships.
Fleet-scale hiring, structured contracts and defined embarkation dates.
Deck, engine, electro-technical and catering roles on dry cargo, tanker, container, RoRo and ferry vessels.
Specialisms by vessel type, mapped to STCW certificates of competency.
Fleet management, crewing, technical management, shipyards, marinas, ports, brokerage and commercial roles.
Bring your sea time ashore without starting your career over.
How it works
Three steps, each opened by the one before it. No unsolicited messages and no disclosure without your consent.
Your positions, sea time and certificates with their dates, saved step by step. Stop at any point and continue when you are back in signal range.
Employers see a reference code and your professional profile — role, sea time, certificates and availability — never your name or contact details. You can also block a specific company from seeing your profile at all.
Only an employer you have applied to, or whose contact request you accepted, sees your full work history and certificates. Your name and contact details follow only after a confirmed hire.
Why seafarers pay nothing
No fees or other charges for recruitment or placement shall be borne, directly or indirectly, by the seafarer.MLC 2006 — Standard A1.4, paragraph 5(b)
For seafarers
Your name and contact details stay hidden until you choose to share them, so you can look without putting your current position at risk. Record your certificates once and get a warning before they expire.
For employers
Review experience, credentials and availability in one place. Publish a job and receive applications ranked by fit, with what is missing shown alongside.
Tax number, trade registry and company document are checked. This verifies the company — it is not a check of any candidate's certificates, which carry their own separate status.
You choose when the vessel name becomes visible: always, after application, or never.
A candidate with an expired mandatory certificate cannot reach the top of the list, and the reason is shown alongside.
If the candidate accepts, their work file and a conversation open for that job. Name and contact details follow once the hire is confirmed on the platform. One request per candidate every 30 days.
Tracking and oversight
Every certificate you record has its expiry date tracked. Anything due within 90 days is marked amber, anything expired red. Medical certificates are tracked for your own reminders only and are never shown to an employer.
Computed from position, certificate validity, experience, languages and availability. A score is never the whole answer: mandatory requirements are listed separately, so a strong score with a missing visa still reads as blocked.
Which employer viewed which candidate, at which level and when — every access is recorded.
The road ahead
SeaTalent opens with profiles, certificate tracking and verified employers. These capabilities come after — each one doing a specific job, and each one reviewed by a person before it touches a hiring decision.
Upload your CV once. SeaTalent drafts your profile from it — positions, sea time, certificates and their dates — and flags every field it could not fill. You review and approve each one before anything is published.
From the profile you approved, export a standardised SeaTalent CV as PDF — the same format every employer on the platform reads.
See how well a role fits you, and why. Mandatory requirements, experience, languages and availability stay separate layers — never collapsed into a single number that hides what is missing.
Employers see the same reasoning from their side, so a shortlist arrives with its reasons attached rather than a score to trust.
Record your answers to a short set of role-specific questions once, in your own time. SeaTalent produces a transcript and a written summary in which every statement points back to the answer it came from, so an employer reads what you said rather than a rating of how you said it.
We do not analyse faces, tone or voice, and we do not infer character from them. The summary is a reading aid; the shortlist is still decided by a person with the full recording in front of them.
A short questionnaire about how you prefer to work at sea — rotation length, crew size, night watches, guest-facing duties. It returns a set of job-related preferences, not a personality verdict: no label that tells an employer what kind of person you are.
You see your own report before anyone else and decide whether to attach it to an application. Employers read preferences next to their own requirements, never a ranking of candidates.
Name a previous captain, manager or agency and SeaTalent contacts them to confirm the dates, the vessel and the role you listed. Only what they confirm becomes a verified line on your profile.
Employers see the confirmation itself, not the contact details behind it — those stay on the platform until both sides agree a placement. A reference nobody confirms simply stays unverified; nothing negative is published.
Common questions
What the waitlist is for, and what SeaTalent will be when it opens.
Soon — the first version is being finished now. We are deliberately not naming a date we cannot keep. Everyone on the waitlist hears from us before the public launch, and gets in first.
Superyacht, cruise, merchant shipping and shore-based roles. Charter, gulet and day-boat work sits within the superyacht sector. One profile covers all four, so your sea time follows you when you move between them — or when you come ashore.
No, and that will not change. No fee for recruitment or placement, directly or indirectly. This is not a launch promotion: MLC 2006 and Turkish Law No. 4904 prohibit charging seafarers for either. The employer side is where SeaTalent earns.
Nobody, until you decide. Your profile appears under a reference code; an employer sees your role, sea time, certificates and availability — not your identity. We will not claim you are untraceable, because in a small sector a detailed profile can still narrow you down. That is exactly why you control what is shared, and when.
One career profile you keep for life: work history and sea time, certificates with expiry tracking, languages and references. On the employer side, company verification and a match that explains itself — why someone fits and what is missing, instead of a single score. Parts of this are still in development, and when we open we will tell you plainly what is ready and what is not.
Opening soon
We are building the whole thing now — profiles, certificate tracking, verified employers and explainable matching. The waitlist decides who sees it first.