We have great news; www.lifeafteryachting.com and www.yotspot.com will now be partnering as part of the movement in yachting to support crew throughout their careers. We share the same experience within the industry, the same aims to develop professional and skilled candidates and same values in wanting to give back to others.
Life After Yachting was founded to provide advice for crew looking to change their career and transition ashore. Having been there myself I know that heading ashore is not an easy decision, and often crew crash out without a plan in place and because they just keep putting off making any decision at all. Having made a success of my own move I wanted to share my knowledge and the invaluable contacts I have built on my journey, so I can help take the pressure off and support as many crew as possible on theirs.
The Life After Yachting portal creates connections between crew needs/interests and industry experts offering their advice. Crew simply log in, tick their interests and the intelligent portal then recommends the corresponding partners who can offer support and advice for your specific needs.
Recruiters with shoreside jobs can showcase available roles in the portal but it’s not just about job search. The portal was also developed to educate crew to recognise and improve on their own ability to apply for those jobs. The partnership with Yotspot typifies our mutual aim to prepare the best quality candidates and lead them to the multitude of great shoreside positions on offer.
Life After Yachting advisors cover areas such as career coaching, financial planning, business strategies, educational and personal development. Specific sectors are also represented such as hospitality, boat building and yacht management, all with a view to help crew start planning their moves early on.
We also have partners who are paving the way for the yachting skillset to be acknowledged and recognised by training centres and employers ashore. They promote opportunities for finding suitable retraining and building new skills.
In the past there has been little centralised, organised and trustworthy support for crew looking to make the leap shoreside. There is a huge skillset built up whilst working onboard but these skills require translation ready for new opportunities such as those on offer through Yotspot.
Our partners have come together to provide that mentorship and sign-post crew career journeys; most have made the move ashore themselves and want to give back and improve our industry.
Collaborations with companies like Yotspot provide great opportunities for us to enhance the crew career journey and empower crew awareness of their value in the wider context. Yotspot is a great place to find jobs ashore and Life After Yachting provides the support for crew to become the best candidates to land those jobs. A perfect partnership!