About Hill Robinson Recruitment
Hill Robinson Recruitment, formerly HR Crew, is the recruitment arm of the Hill Robinson yacht management group. It describes itself as the experienced, go-to team for recruiting and placing crew onboard yachts worldwide, and works from seven offices including Monaco, Antibes, Palma, Fort Lauderdale, La Spezia, London and Cyprus.
Alongside yacht crew, it recruits for private estates and corporate roles. Candidates register and apply through its EVO Portal. For newer crew the site carries useful career guidance, with starting-your-career guides, CV preparation, qualifications and training information and a yachting hub. MLC compliance is referenced across its policies.
One honest note. Because it sits inside a large management group its focus spans more than pure recruitment, and the public pages set out no explicit free-to-crew statement, so check terms when you sign up.
No agency should ever ask you to pay to register. They are paid by the yacht that hires through them, never by you. If anyone asks for money upfront to join their books or guarantee a placement, treat it as a red flag. See yacht crew job scams and red flags.
Registering well with Hill Robinson Recruitment
Having the link is the easy part. Turning up with a clean CV and your certificates ready in one folder is what gets you remembered. Register with a handful of agencies rather than just one, since each works with a different set of yachts. Our guide on how to register with yacht crew agencies walks through it, and pairs well with dockwalking in Antibes and Palma so you are working both channels at once.
Register with everything ready to go.
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