The process
From sea service to shore career
NextRankAI turns your maritime experience into a clear, actionable transition roadmap — built around the roles, industries, and qualifications that value what seafarers bring to sea or ashore.
Tell us more about yourself
Click on Get Started to answer a few questions for us to know you better. At the end, just drop your CV so that our tool can analyse your career experience.
The profile takes under five minutes. Our tool extracts the important parts from your CV — we map STCW competencies, flag-state endorsements, and operational experience into a next rank-ready skills inventory.
- Rank history and total sea service
- Certificates, endorsements, and watchkeeping experience
- Vessel types, trading areas, and operational responsibilities
AI maps your career pathways
Our model translates your maritime competencies into the language for any sea or shore-based employers — surfacing the roles you already qualify for and the ones within closest reach.
We analyse over 180 competency dimensions and cross-reference them against requirements in port operations, marine surveying, offshore energy, maritime law, ship management, and more. Every matched role shows your current fit percentage and the gaps that remain.
- 180+ shore roles mapped across 12 maritime sectors
- Fit score for each role based on your actual experience
- Gaps ranked by effort and impact
Follow your personalised roadmap
Your roadmap lists every bridging course, qualification, and industry connection needed to land your target role — with realistic timelines and recommended providers.
Roadmaps adapt as you progress. Complete a course, earn a new qualification, or change your target role and the plan updates instantly. Connect with potential employers while gauging your probability of getting an interview based on your profile.
- Prioritised list of bridging qualifications and courses
- Recommended training providers and industry bodies
- Discover relevant recruiters and maritime employers
Under the hood
Built on real maritime competency data
Seafarers accumulate extraordinary skills at sea — crisis management, technical operations, international compliance, team leadership under pressure. The problem is that shore-based employers rarely know how to read a Certificate of Competency or a discharge book.
NextRankAI bridges that gap. We encode the STCW competency framework, IMO model courses, and major flag-state syllabi, then map each competency to its shore-side equivalent — translating 'Officer of the Watch' into the language of port authorities, energy companies, and maritime law firms.
We update our role and qualification data continuously as industries evolve — so your roadmap always reflects current hiring requirements, not last year's job descriptions.
STCW competency coverage
Updated to STCW Manila Amendments. Flag-state supplements applied per profile.
Common questions
What seafarers ask us
Most seafarers complete their profile in under five minutes. If you have your certificates to hand, you can be looking at your matched shore roles within ten minutes of signing up.
We currently map pathways into port operations, marine surveying, ship management, offshore energy, maritime law, flag state administration, maritime education, and the wider logistics and supply chain sector.
Yes. Every time you complete a course, earn a new qualification, or change your target role, your roadmap recalculates instantly. You always see the most current picture of your transition progress.
Yes — you can generate a shareable link or export a PDF version of your transition profile and roadmap to send directly to recruiters or maritime HR departments.
The initial profile and shore role matching are free. Full roadmap access, qualification tracking, and recruiter visibility are available on our paid plans.