Maritime careers to be promoted at National Careers Guidance Show

Career opportunities from across the UK’s shipping, ports, business services, engineering and leisure marine industries will be on show at Olympia later this month.

The National Career Guidance Show is for careers advisers, teachers, parents, careers leads in schools and careers educators from any other setting.

Free to attend, the show features more than 200 exhibitors across the series, plus one-to-one CPD clinics organised by the Career Development Institute (CDI). There is also a full programme of expert talks. Careers ‘influencers’ are invited to come along and improve knowledge of careers, including within the maritime sector.

The UK is proud to have one of the most vibrant and competitive maritime sectors in the world – and its competitiveness is not solely down to efficient tax regimes and a stable business climate. Quite simply, the UK is the world’s maritime centre because of its workforce.

Maritime UK’s presence (stand 9) will play host to the breadth of careers available in maritime and direct users to visit the careers section of its website (www.maritimeuk.org/careers), which signposts users to the lead industry organisations for each part of the sector.

The UK maritime sector is worth £40bn and supports justunder 1,000,000 jobs.

With sea trade expected to double in the next 20 years, the need for a highly skilled workforce has never been greater. The UK is committed to providing world-class seafarers, port workers, engineers, naval architects, shipbrokers, financiers, accountants, consultants, insurers and lawyers, so that – together – they can meet the long-term needs of this most global of sectors.

The international maritime community recognises the UK’s unequalled expertise, thought leadership, and world-leading innovation – and never stop looking for the brightest and best people to join the industry.

The career opportunities are as broad as they are exciting.

Maritime UK and its members will be collecting information from careers professionals and influencers at the show to help inform industry’s knowledge of what careers advisors and teachers currently know about maritime.

The Maritime Growth Study challenged industry to come together to better coordinate the promotion of the numerous career opportunitites across maritime, and joint attendance at careers events are forming part of the industry response to the recommendation.