New Member: Cockwells Post x5 Falmouth Jobs

Cockwells Join SaltyJobs We met Cockwells Modern & Classic Boatbuilding at the Southampton Boat Show 2017, and crossed paths again last week. Cockwells are currently recruiting for five great new roles, and has signed up as our latest SaltyJobs Employer Member. We’d like to welcome them aboard and share with you the fantastic opportunities to

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Salty Weekend In The News

Woohoo! We made it. Our recent Salty Weekend was featured in TheSuffolkCoast.co.uk as a local event news article.  Here’s the link to read it live:   Thanks for the support, it’s great to see the salty word spreading. 👌 Have you read our article about Salty Weekend? Read that here See the original Salty Weekend ticket

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Petition: Keep Yarmouth Stores Open

Yarmouth Stores is Closing So sad, it’s the end of a 119-year-long era. Yarmouth Stores in Plymouth’s Barbican is closing and its staff are being made redundant. Can we help keep it open and save these salty jobs? The current manager has worked there since 1975, being their fourth manager in 119 years. It will be

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Success Story: Tall Ship Engineer

SaltyJobs Success Story – Tall Ship Engineer Success! SaltyJobs has made another match between a fantastic tall ship engineer opportunity and passionate seafarer. During the Southampton Boat Show, we met hundreds of potential employers and jobseekers. We talked about ways into the marine industry, chatted with lots of you who are already qualified, and had

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SPECIAL OFFER: 25% Off STCW Training Week

SaltyJobs & South West Maritime Academy Partnership We recently announced a partnership between SaltyJobs and the South West Maritime Academy. It’s been pretty exciting to work with the guys there to come up with some great ideas for partnerships between us. Aiming To Inspire Both of our organisations share the same aim: to help more people

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Southampton Boat Show 2017

SaltyJobs is going to the Southampton Boat Show 2017 Guess what? We’ve been keeping something from you… but now we’re pretty excited, and it’s nearly here! SaltyJobs is going to be exhibiting at the Southampton Boat Show 2017. It’s a big investment for us, not just financially and the time involved organising and attending, but

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South West Maritime Academy Are Onboard

Exciting New Partnership We are very excited to announce a new partnership between SaltyJobs and the South West Maritime Academy. Based at a quarry in Gloucestershire, we went to meet owner Johnathan Davies and his colleague Nick. They gave us a fantastic tour of their facilities and we talked a lot about working in the

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Paimpol Festival 2017

Paimpol Chant du Marin Festival 2017 Paimpol Festival has just happened. We were there. And it’s the voyages and moments like those that remind us why we do what we do. Two years ago, I had a phone call asking if I was available to sail as a relief First Mate onboard Excelsior, chartered by

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Competition! Win a Leatherman

Thanks for the Likes We are very excited to be celebrating our 1,000th fan on our Facebook page this week, so we’re giving you the chance to win a Leatherman Wave. SaltyJobs isn’t just a website, a jobs board, or anything like a recruitment agency. We are a community, and it’s people like you, who

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SaltyJobs has moved… to Bristol Harbour

Change happens As 2017 rolls on and we begin to look towards our plans and dreams for the next year, natural change begins to happen. For the last 9 years, SaltyJob’s founder Eleanor (that’s me) has lived on boats. Big boats, little boats, sailing boats, motor boats, traditional boats, plastic boats, wooden boats, gaff-rigged boats,

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