neilr1975

Just looking to network and make connections especially in Bahrain or UAE, looking to relocate and work/live in the Gulf when I leave the Royal Navy next year.

I spent just over 12 years in Bahrain growing up (79-94) and now I am looking to move back to the region with my family.

Any helps tips or guidance would be great

Cheers

Neil

mikewot

Whats your trade/speciality?

neilr1975

Mike

Thanks for the reply, I am a Leading Seaman Specialist in the Royal Navy so I have lots of experience in small boat operations, security afloat and ashore plus a lot of training deliver and manpower management.

Not sure how to but would be more than happy to send you a copy of my CV for you to have a look at, even a bit of advice on how to tailor it to the Mid East market would be appreciated.

Neil

mikewot

Sorry Neil I can't help you, my work involves the skies as opposed to messing around in boats But I know one of the first questions people would ask will be what can you do. Have a search through these forums, especially the thread on CV's as there are some handy hints and tips in there

Good luck
Mike

neilr1975

Cheers, take it your one of the many controllers that have headed over that way....dam it that was my second choice to driving boats all day!

mikewot

Former controller (not Navy, that blue colour didn't suit my eyes ) and now doing management stuff, although I hadn't expected to be in the office at this time at night on a Friday (Thursday out here).

neilr1975

Sorry Bob for posting in the wrong forum

Tockalosh

I am sure you will get a link somewhere to something. The ME is full of ex forces in civvy jobs (though beware ALL are ex SAS, SBS or Nuclear submarine commanders/Captains or whatever the Matelot term is and no one ever was bog standard. You may wish to change your post where it mentions that as such)

Good luck.

neilr1975

Tockalosh thanks for the advise, will edit the post now.....never going to reach such heady heights

neilr1975

Can an Admin please delete this thread so I can delete and rephrase it!

Many Thanks

Neil

commander

Killick spec...a buffers bitch..kidding. I'm ex sas, sbs, 14th int, commachio, 2 Para and MI5. Nice to meet you and good luck. In my spare time I was a small ships WEO.

neilr1975

Thanks commander...being an ex-weo I can only assume your out of your rack for an old man's piss

Did you move out to the ME on the back of your forces experiences or more on the WE side of life?

Times have a changed, now the Navigators bitch doing flag waving and flashing light (Not this callsign...source branch)!!

Bob

How about you just make a post in this thread saying what you're looking for, rather than deleting it?

It's already had a fair bit of eye balls, so be better than a new thread

neilr1975

UPDATE - Just to make things clearer

I am a Leading Seaman Specialist in the Navy and I am wanting to to try and find work in the marine environment (Small boat stuff), but I spent a tour on a training team in Iraq and found I A)enjoyed B) was good at teaching and development so plan to use my resettlement to gain formal accreditation in training. I am also going to qualify in Health and Safety and if the money stretches far enough do an ROV course.

As you can see I am trying to cover a few bases and put myself in a position where I have a diverse skill set. I have plenty of experience from the Navy but unfortunately while the experience is transferable the is no formal civilian qualification.

OriginalSunshine

ok - that makes it easier. there's relatively big money in "personnel development" coaching / training, telling people how to tell their staff that they are f*****g idiots and go and do the f****g job without getting fired yourself. ex UK forces apparently quite popular as the companies seem to like the management style. (yes, I see the dichotomy).