stormrider
For potential ROV trainees, companies are generally looking for already experienced and qualified techs, either mechanical/hydraulic or electronic/electrical or indeed a combination e.g. ‘mechatronics’, electro-mechanical tech or whatever they call it now.
Structuring your CV to suit whatever target market you are applying for jobs in makes sense (i.e ROV industry in this case). However, if your experience/qualifications don’t match the basic requirements of a particular industry then no amount of tweaking the CV will help. You didn’t say if your technical experience i.e. plumbing etc experience is most recent or if it was before your Police career. As you say, your Police experience will not have much relevance, unless perhaps you were working in a technical support staff role etc.
Not trying to put you off, but even though there is a shortage of skilled personnel in the offshore sector, competition is still fairly tight for trainee places. Nothing wrong in going for a total career change, even in your late 30’s, plenty people do so successfully, but generally you first need to get some relevant training and qualifications to do so.
Note that the short ROV courses advertised by various places will not turn someone into a tech in 4 weeks, and some unscrupulous places will happily take your money for a course with little screening for suitability, even if it has little chance of leading to employment.
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