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Lisa Oliver

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Jul 7, 2026

5:50
What is the feedback you hear from them? Why is it that they are choosing a career at sea?
5:56
The majority of them that are choosing to enter the industry have got some sort of connection to the industry a lot of the time, whether that is because they live in coastal regions from a UK-based perspective or whether they've got a relative that works in the industry.
6:12
There's normally a little bit of a connection as to why they've chosen a career at sea in the first place.
6:19
And I think because of that, there is a good drive for them in terms of...
6:26
Wanting to actually succeed, wanting to get to the end of what is, from a college perspective, a qualification which is going to set them up for life sometimes.
6:35
Even if they don't follow it through into a fully-fledged 25-year career at sea, they still see the benefit and the relative benefit in actually gaining an educational qualification that these cadetship programmes offer.
6:49
So all those tied together from a CV point of view for these young adults is then beneficial whether they choose to stay at sea or not.
9:22
Can you just elaborate maybe a little bit more on how you prepare them?

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