Over a thou­sand na­tion­als were in­ter­viewed vir­tu­al­ly for jobs by Roy­al Caribbean Cruis­es in the last two weeks, the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts has con­firmed.

The min­istry con­firmed a sec­ond phase of the Roy­al Caribbean Group’s (RCG) Sea­far­er Re­cruit­ment Ini­tia­tive took place dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 9th - 19th, 2022, where ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,300 ap­pli­cants were in­ter­viewed vir­tu­al­ly by the cruise line’s 19-mem­ber re­cruit­ment team.

Ap­pli­cants, the min­istry said, were con­tact­ed di­rect­ly by RCG and giv­en the choice to at­tend the in­ter­views at home or at Queen’s Hall, Port-of-Spain and Shaw Park Com­plex, Scar­bor­ough, where the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts the Di­vi­sion of Tourism, Cul­ture, Trans­porta­tion and An­tiq­ui­ties pro­vid­ed the fa­cil­i­ties for them to par­tic­i­pate in the in­ter­view.

The Min­istry said in a re­lease, “The sec­ond phase of this re­cruit­ment dri­ve con­tin­ues to af­ford em­ploy­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties for hun­dreds of cit­i­zens with­in the tourism and hos­pi­tal­i­ty ser­vices, food and bev­er­age man­age­ment and the med­ical field. The dri­ve has al­so pro­vid­ed per­sons who were not able to par­tic­i­pate in June, a sec­ond op­por­tu­ni­ty at be­ing part of RCG’s in­ter­na­tion­al brand.”

So far close to 1,000 ap­pli­cants have re­ceived Let­ters of Of­fer from the RCG for a range of po­si­tions, in­clud­ing: chefs, house­keep­ers, in­ven­to­ry man­agers, restau­rant at­ten­dants, bar­tenders and doc­tors.