Interview materials
General question:
1. Please briefly introduce yourself (as a deck / engine cadet) to us. Or tell us something about yourself.
2. Please tell me what major you had in the marine university/college/school?
3. What courses (subjects) have you learned during your studies there?
Which courses do you like most? Why?
4. Why do you want to be a sailor? Are you willing work hard? How long do you want to be a sailor? Do you have any friend as a seaman? What do you know about seaman’s life?
5. What other plans do you have for the coming 5 or 6 years?
6. Do you think that sailing is a very ideal job for you? Could your brother follow your step?
7. If Capt(CE) scold you? Will you fight back? Why?
8. Have you got a girlfriend? If you have, will you miss your girlfriend
when you work on board for a whole year?
9. When do you want to get married?
10. Do you have hobbies? What hobbies do you like best, why?
11.  Which country do you like best?
12. what do you think is most important thing on-board ship? Second? Third? (safety)
13. If you work on board for one year, will you be very home sick? Do you get a seasick?
14.  Please name some types of vessels in the world. What types ship do you like to join? Do you know Tanker? How much do you know Tanker?
15. Do you teachers talk English? Do they use English to have lesson?
16. If you have a leave, how long do you want to stay home?
17. What food do you like? There no Chinese foods in board, how do you feel?
18. What will you do in your spare / free time? What kind of leisure activilies do you do?
19. If you are asked to do a lot of jobs on board, will you have some complaint?
20. In your opinion, how can you get along well with other in the work team?
21. Do you know our company? How do you know? What do you know?
22. How many departments are there in a vessel, and what are they?
23. As far as you know, what equipments are there in the bridge/ deck/ engine department? What positions are there on board?
24.  Tell me the whole name of the following anonyms: IMO, STCW78/ 95, SOLA74, ARPA, RADAR, GMDSS, MARPOL 73/ 78, IOPP, GPS, ISM.
25. Have you ever worked on board the training vessel, and with whom did you work together on board the training vessel? How many people were there in your ship? What did you do there?
26. Can you use English computer? Can you rend / write / listen English? How long have you learnt English?
27. Why are you elder than your classmate? How do you think of your classmate?
28.What is lifejacket? Lifeboat?
29. Can you tell me where is bridge? Bow? Astern? Middle?
30.How many kinds of Alarm do you know?
31.What skills do you offer,that are most relevant in this job? / What skills would you like to develop in this job? 
32.What motivates you to do this job? /What interest you most about this job? What interests you less?

Question for deck cadet:
1. If you work as a 3rd officer, what is your duty hours every day?
2. Please name some types of vessels in the world. What types ship do you like to join?
3. Tell us some very important canals/ straits in the world.
4. How do you get the weather information on board vessel?
5. what is windless?
6.Do you know what is latitude and longitude?
7. What do you call 0℃?
8.what do you learn in navigation?
9. what is chat? Why do we use chat?
10. what is radar?
11.what is GMDSS? DCS? VHF?
12. Do you know navigation light? Tell me about it. Which side is red? Which side is yellow? Could you tell me something about light or flag signal?
13. Do you know navigation log? What is recorded in it?