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How to Add Work Experience to Your Profile

When you upload your CV to ProSeafarers, our system will automatically add the information in it to your profile. You don't need to do anything.

If you want to add more work experience to your profile manually, here's how.

Log into ProSeafarers, and click the anchor icon next to Employment in the menu on the left.

A seafarer's jobs page on the ProSeafarers maritime jobs website

You will go to this page:

A seafarer's work experience page on the ProSeafarers maritime jobs website

Here you can:

  • See a list of all your work experience, including the rank, vessel, the company you worked for, the management company, the manning agency, your sign on and off dates, and the length of the contract.

  • Click the Add experience button to add new work experience.

  • Click the pen icon to edit an entry.

  • Click the 3 dots and then the Delete button to delete an entry.

  • Click the Sort button to sort the list by Most Recent, Duration, Rank or Vessel.

How to Manually Add Work Experience to Your ProSeafarers Profile

Click the Add experience button at the top of the page. You will go to this page:

A seafarer's work experience page on the ProSeafarers maritime jobs website

Here you can:

  • Enter the name of the shipowner or company.

  • Enter the name of the management company or employer.

  • Enter the name of the manning agent.

  • Select your rank from the drop-down menu.

  • Enter your sign on and off dates.

  • Enter the reason you were discharged.

  • Add any notes that you feel are relevant to this work experience.

  • Enter the vessel’s name.

  • Select the vessel type from the drop-down menu.

  • Select the vessel’s flag state from the drop-down menu.

  • Enter the vessel’s DWT, build year, engine power and trading area.

  • Click the Save experience button and your entry will appear in the list on the main page.

How to Edit Existing Work Experience

Hover your mouse over the entry that you want to make changes to and click the pen icon next to it. It will open a page the same as the one above that you saw when you created an entry.

Make your changes and click the Save experience button.

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