About Recrewt
Recrewt was formed in 2013 as an independent, UK-based agency that recruits globally. It describes itself as an MCA-compliant and MLC 2006 compliant crew placement agency, placing crew across all departments on both private and charter yachts.
What suits green crew here is the thoroughness. Registration is a detailed online form covering your certificates, passport and visa status, preferred positions and availability, followed by a face-to-face interview before you are fully on the books. That interview is a good sign. It means a real person reviews your profile rather than a database alone. A published complaints procedure referencing the MCA sits behind it.
Of all the agencies our founder registered with, Recrewt was the one that stood out most for its personal approach. If you want to be known rather than filed, start here.
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 Recrewt
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.
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