CrewRecruit – The Innovative Recruitment Solution

Shortage of competent crew is becoming an increasing challenge and even a risk. To tackle these challenges, we created the forefront innovative recruitment solution: CrewRecruit — a combination of our in-depth knowledge of local crewing markets, strict screening and a modern digital recruitment platform to speed up the process without compromise while giving seafaring applicants a much better experience and engagement.

The CrewRecruit concept is already proven, enabling us to fill any vacancy quickly with the best seafarers:

• Strict screening by experienced recruiters supported by AI of each seafarer new to us. Our 12-step screening process ensures that only the best crew put feet on the deck of our clients' vessels.
• International network of manning offices in the key seafaring hubs worldwide, including the EU, Ukraine, Georgia, Türkiye, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, all operating to the same high standards.
• Single point access to Danica's manning office network reaching out to a total of 569,000 officers and 642,000 ratings, with one contact person at Danica coordinating internally.
• A modern digital recruitment platform that quickly searches among the 75K applicants in our database, connects with applicants meeting the requirements, automatically interacts with candidates, and conducts an initial compliance check.
• A large team of crewing specialists with in-depth knowledge of crew workforce markets and crewing operations. Our team of recruiters includes captains and chief engineers with relevant vessel experience who can verify candidates' professional knowledge. All our recruitment team staff members are trained in interview techniques including behaviour assessment methods.
• Holistic screening for senior officers and other critical ranks: we combine the findings from the screening to capture a holistic image of the candidates' core competencies — social, skills, knowledge, personality and IQ — ensuring your vessels are manned by the best officers.

Our 12-step screening process

• Review application
• Telephone interview
• Reference check
• Interview with recruiter
• Professional knowledge test
• English test
• IQ test
• Behavioural test
• Check of client-specific requirements
• Senior Captain / Chief Engineer interview
• Recruiters' conclusion
• Senior Management review and conclusion

The five competency elements

Talent / IQ: We ensure that the seafarers recruited by us have an adequate portion of talent and IQ, enabling them to adapt to the standards and processes of their new employer, the ability to adapt to changes and to contribute with improvements.

Knowledge: Knowledge is what a person has learned from other people through ears and eyes.

Skills: Skills are the ability to perform a task in reality. Skills are the result of persistent training.

Personal characteristics: Personal characteristics include a person's ability to understand a situation, cope with stress, and resilience capabilities. Talent/IQ and personal characteristics are elements we are born with or induced during our early childhood and are difficult or impossible to change through training and learning.

Behaviour: Behaviour is the will and ability to act in an adjusted and tailored manner to a given situation and surroundings. Behaviour is how we use and apply the other four competency elements. If a person cannot act appropriately, then all the otherwise perfect skills and extensive knowledge are wasted, and their team and colleagues will not perform in an efficient way.