Cruise Liners Vacancies for Zimbos

When it comes to foreign jobs fears of humantrafficking or scams come into mind and for these reasons, many fear anything to do with these jobs. Recent cases of human trafficking in Oman have exercbated the situation. So mention cruise line jobs and many will be quick to dismiss the jobs but how is the situation?

The good news is that many Zimbos have been getting jobs on cruise ships and on the forum we have more than 40 who got jobs this year.They paid nobody a fee for facilitation but instead went through a process of mentorship fromthose who are already working on cruise ships, shared notes with others and applied for the jobs.

Picture of a cruise liner

This is essentially a massive hotel on ocean waters with some having capacities up to 5000 and beyond. Guests on holiday need tonnes of services support such as entertainment, accommodation, food, security, clothing and more.

This calls for professions such as plumbers, carpenters, tailors, chefs, jewellery sellers, nurses, musicians, servers, receptionists, accounting clerks etc

Top recruitment sites

www.carnival.com/careers

www.careers.royalcaribbeangroup.com

You can search for tens of others on the internet. You search for vacancies where you qualify and then register online(its free).

You will be asked to load a resume/cv and make sure its short and neat.Look for resume templates of your field on the internet as well.

A pre-screening interview will be done whereby you are send interview questions which you need to answer and they come with a set time frame.

If successful on the pre-screening stage, a Zoom interview is scheduled and make sure you look professional and you are well prepared for it. If in doubt engage professional interview coaches.

They do not take long before giving you feedback with some fortunate being told they are hired before the interview is finished.

Do not worry if unsuccessful as you can always try again.

Those successful are sent forms they have to fill out and have to undergo medical tests and when successful apply for visas. From visas one buys an airline ticket and fly out to their workplace. The costs of medical tests, visas and airline tickets range from $1100-$1300. Most recoup these costs within the first month of working.

Delays may come due to embassies being swamped with applications but on average 3-4 months one should be able to get it.

Salary ranges for lowest paid jobs are $600 and for top jobs from $6000 and include benefits such as gratuity and tips. Accommodation and food is provided.

So there you are search for jobs you qualify and do your application today. From the forum more than 40 have been recruited this year and each week others are being recruited.

Once more this is a self application process and do not pay a single penny to anyone for cruise liner jobs.

The marginal utility from importing second hand vehicles from Japan should be waning. This is what we have been doing for the past 2 decades and clearly there is nothing new to tickle our fancy. Perhaps the hybrid cars such as the popular new Honda Fit?

So what is likely to shape the future of business in Zimbabwe?

Welcome to enabling others to make money and today we tackle the manufacturing sector. Most of the machinery and equipment imported from China and in some instances—Taiwan, Thailand and India.

Our ZBIN Manufacturer of the year is Obey Nziramasanga, a mupositori who shares tonnes of information especially developments on the streets. Last year he did extremely well in soap and other detergents manufacturing. His portfolio also included hair oils and floor polishes.

This year he added mutton cloth manufacturing and the results have been amazing!

The mutton cloths used in mostly vehicles cleaning and bought by vendors who buy in bulk and selling at a huge profit. This is clearly a B2E (Business to Entrepreneur model). Did it take long to establish in the market?

Not at all as B2E has instant results—vendors have been queuing up on his door and now he cannot cope with supplies! His business secret is he kept in contact with his street value chain contacts.

Yes in Zim there is a huge street value chain which is not too visible but big pushers of products on Harare Streets. Those bringing new products such as biscuits, hats, mutton cloths and more do not create new supply lines. They simply link up with secret groups of these pushers and the results are often instant.

The street pushers include newspaper vendors and pirate music vendors. You cannot be a serious business person in Zimbabwe who ignores this informal value chain.

So you don’t necessarily need to copy and paste mutton cloth manufacturing but can also look at other manufacturing equipment such as;

Biscuits production: The newest foreign products in Harare are biscuits imported from Lesotho, Maseru. Previously biscuits were imported from Zambia and Durban, but Lesotho has taken over. So research more on this area, set up own biscuits manufacturing plant and get the streets busy.

Watertank and hosepipe manufacture: In Zim this market is now saturated but there is room across the region such as Malawi and Angola. Namibia introduced this business in 2019 showing that it was a late entry. Carry out own researches and venture into SADC. This sector also includes irrigation equipment parts manufacturing.

Hybrid Cars Convertor: The 4IR is already upon us and if you are in doubt, read the E-Passport story published widely yesterday. Hybrid cars fast filling up our roads and streets although it’s a long way before we have a significant population. With the future anchored on tech, question is what will happen to gas powered vehicles in Africa?

Discard them? Not feasible but in some countries such as China, vehicles are being turned into battery powered versions. You bring your petrol vehicle; the engine is pulled out and replaced by a battery powered engine system. With millions of cars around—what opportunities do you see?

The list of what you can venture into manufacturing wise is obviously long but this festive season we encourage you to spend more time on Alibaba.com and study machinery catalogues.