Stop guessing which maritime role you're ready for.
Talent2Role Maritime reads your sea time, certificates and shore experience, maps them against
all 47 work roles of the Maritime Workforce Framework — deck, engine, ship management, chartering,
ports and marine services — and shows you exactly which competencies you already evidence, which
ones you're missing, and the shortest credible path to the role you want.
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83%Role readiness
49Competencies matched
55Priority gaps
Chief Officer (Chief Mate)83%
Master (Ship Master)78%
Marine Superintendent71%
Harbour Master44%
The journey
Résumé to offer — one flowing process
Watch how each stage feeds the next, and what it changes for you.
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CaptureFree
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MapFree
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AnalysePro
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PlanPro
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ProvePro
Capture
The problem
Shipping has the world's best competence standard. Careers don't use it.
STCW defines, function by function, what every officer must know and be able to do — and then
stops at the certificate. The moment a Chief Officer wants to come ashore as a superintendent,
a rating wants a route to the bridge, or a broker wants to move into operations, there is no
shared vocabulary. The Maritime Workforce Framework carries the STCW discipline across the
whole industry: 47 work roles, 23 competency areas, 801 statements with stable IDs.
Careers are still assessed from a pile of certificates
A crewing desk sees a CoC, a passport and a stack of course certificates. It cannot see what the person can actually do — or how far they are from the shore role they want next.
47work roles
23competency areas
801TKS statements
7role categories
Titles and certificates carry half the signal
"Marine Superintendent" might mean navigational audits, vetting preparation or cargo claims. A Chief Mate's CoC proves the STCW table — not the commercial, environmental and people competencies the shore job actually runs on.
What breaks today
"Do a few years ashore first" isn't a plan
Which knowledge statements, in what order, costing how many weeks, moving your readiness by how much? Sea-to-shore advice stops exactly where the useful detail starts.
What breaks today
Keyword matching misses competence
An ATS compares strings. It cannot tell that "kept the 4–8 on a capesize" and "maintained a safe navigational watch and monitored cargo and ballast" describe the same MWF competencies.
What breaks today
Sea to shore
One competency graph for the whole voyage.
The same framework describes the bridge, the engine room, the ship-management office, the chartering desk, the terminal and the survey. That is what makes the transitions plannable.
Deck & engine officers
STCW functions and levels, plus the leadership, environmental and commercial competencies promotion actually demands.
NV · EN — 14 roles
Ship management & compliance
Technical and marine superintendents, HSQE / DPA, fleet, crew and procurement managers.
SM — 6 roles
Commercial, ports & logistics
Shipbrokers, operators, traders, claims, finance, agents, terminal planners and forwarders.
A complete career application. One competency graph.
Every module runs off the same MWF ontology and your centrally stored profile — an insight in one module is immediately usable in the next, on board or ashore, on any device.
Dashboard
Readiness score against your target role, momentum over eight weeks, priority gaps, and the single next action worth taking.
Profile
Sea service, certificates of competency and endorsements, STCW courses, shore roles and self-assessed competencies — the evidence base every score is derived from.
Process
A guided five-stage journey — capture, map, analyse, plan, prove. Your AI Career Counsellor reads your résumé for skills, knowledge and capabilities; a rule engine plus the counsellor map them to framework statements.
Resume Gap Analyzer
The flagship. Paste your CV or sea-service record and get a statement-level match against all 47 work roles, with every missing TKS statement listed by ID — and a counsellor-written summary of what matters most.
Profile Compare Pro
Paste any other profile — a role model, a colleague, the person who got the job — and see the exact statements between you, an AI gap summary and a phased plan to close it.
Role Explorer
Browse all 47 roles across the seven MWF categories — bridge to boardroom — read the exact knowledge and skill statements each demands, and see which roles are adjacent to yours.
Learning Path
Your gaps grouped into MWF competency areas and ordered by readiness gain per hour — biggest impact per hour invested, first.
Job Match
Paste any maritime job advert — sea or shore. It gets mapped to its closest MWF role, scored against your profile, and the gaps that would sink the interview are flagged first.
Badges & Certificates Free cert
Earn alignment badges and a QR-verifiable Certificate of Mapped Skills — add them to LinkedIn in one click. Alignment tiers unlock with Professional.
Decision Studio Pro
Fourteen models from The Decision Book — SWOT, Johari Window, Belbin, Hard Choice, Stop Rule and more — drawn as charts from your own framework data, for interview prep and choosing between offers.
Role-Fit Report Pro
A 12-section career readiness report — analytics, SWOT, cert ROI, 13-week timetable, interview prep — printable and QR-verifiable.
Scenario Answers Pro
Real shipping scenarios — engine-room fire, PSC deficiency, liquefaction cargo, laytime dispute — mapped to the knowledge, skills and abilities they demonstrate, with exact guidance on using each one in interview answers.
Soft Skills Pro
The career-deciding soft skills of the maritime world — closed-loop communication, assertiveness, situational awareness, cultural awareness — what each covers, why it matters at sea and ashore, and concrete ways to improve.
Job Keywords Pro
Titles, terms and boolean search strings tuned to your target role — copy them straight into LinkedIn, Indeed, Bayt or Google.
Portal Profile Pack Pro
Every profile field for LinkedIn and the job portals — headline, about, experience, skills — generated from your evidence, ready to copy.
Resources & Google Notebook Pro
Curated videos, books and references per learning theme — plus a one-click study pack for Google Notebook (NotebookLM) with quizzes and audio overviews.
Advisory
For ship managers, crewing companies and academies: MWF capability assessment, hiring advisory and training design — human expertise on top of the platform's output.
How it works
Five stages, resume to offer
The same process runs inside the platform as a guided journey, with your progress tracked at every stage.
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Capture
Sign in and bring your evidence — CV, sea-service record, ranks held, certificates and courses, shore roles. Detail is what the engine has to work with.
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Map
Your evidence is reduced to competency signal and matched against 801 MWF TKS statements.
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Analyse
Scored against all 47 work roles. Readiness, matched statements, and every gap listed by ID.
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Plan
Gaps become a sequenced curriculum with effort estimates and the readiness impact of each theme.
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Prove
Close gaps, track readiness climbing, and score real job adverts before you apply.
The framework
Why an STCW-aligned framework, and what that actually buys you
The IMO's STCW Convention and Code is the most rigorous competence standard any industry has —
functions, levels of responsibility and the knowledge every officer must demonstrate. The
Maritime Workforce Framework keeps that discipline and extends it to the shore: ISM, ISPS, MARPOL,
the MLC and the professional syllabi of ICS, the Nautical Institute, IMarEST and IIMS, rebuilt
in the NIST NICE structure of categories, work roles, competency areas and TKS statements.
What a competency statement looks like
MW-K1044Knowledge of the effect of cargo, including heavy lifts, on the seaworthiness and stability of the ship.
MW-S1014Skill in applying the COLREGs to determine risk of collision and take early, substantial and clearly visible action.
MW-S1148Skill in calculating laytime and demurrage and preparing or defending a claim.
Every statement has a stable ID. That is what makes gap analysis possible: your CV either
evidences MW-S1148 or it doesn't, and
if it doesn't, that is a concrete thing to go and learn — not a vague instruction to
"get some commercial exposure".
Who it's for
Four people, one competency graph
The same engine answers a different question depending on who is asking it.
Seafarers
Deck, engine and electro-technical officers and ratings who want the next rank — or the first shore role.
