MORE BARBADIANS are set to get jobs on the Carnival cruise line.
Carnival’s director of beverage training and development, Anthony Stice, is in Barbados conducting interviews with Barbadians and other applicants from the Caribbean seeking to work on the high seas.
Speaking to the MIDWEEK NATION at the Bridgetown offices of recruiting agency Trinity Recruitment Services yesterday, Stice said that over two days he would be interviewing 66 applicants for entry level jobs as bar waiters and waitresses in the ship’s beverage department.
The group of applicants included 24 Barbadians while the other 42 were from St Vincent, Guyana and Grenada.
Stice said the majority of the 25 ships in the Carnival fleet came to the Caribbean and it was likely many of the successful recruits would be working on ships in the region.
He said there were almost 50 nationalities working in Carnival’s beverage department. He added that the cruise line was particularly attracted by the personality and hospitality skills of the Caribbean workers, who interacted well with passengers and were always willing to share their knowledge of the region.
Managing director of Trinity Recruitment Services, Judeen Scantlebury, has been successful in securing places for Barbadian workers on various cruise lines.
She said that after the current drive was completed, Carnival representatives from other departments would follow to recruit workers for departments such as housekeeping. (GC)
