How do I find a job as a new PADI Instructor?

What began as a hobby, evolved into a passion, and has become something you know you can earn a living from.

We all want that luxury, to be paid for something we love doing. Becoming a PADI dive instructor gives you the opportunity to discover amazing sea life, develop a great appreciation of nature’s beauty, educate your guests, and meet new people. People you meet while diving can become your next diving buddy or life long friend.

Diving centers are hiring and producing professionals every day. If you’re targeting popular diving locations such as Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, finding a job can be challenging and competitive. If you just became a PADI Instructor but are confused as to where to start looking for a job, this article is perfect for you.

Take the leap

Remember all the connections you have made during your training. With great networking, you get to begin your journey through:

• The diving center you trained in. If you showed great dedication and the right attitude during your training, you should try your luck with your past diving center. Fill out a CV, list all of your qualifications, and explain why you chose their diving center to work with.
• If you’ve completed your course with Blue Season Bali and enjoyed your time with us as much as we did, contact us to see if we’re hiring! We are always looking for strong individuals to join our team of professionals. We want to provide the best diving experience and educate our students.
• Checking out all the dive stores you know. Occasionally, diving stores will advertise for scuba instructors and diving professionals.
• Check out the PADI website: you will find a lot of jobs advertised there, one of them might be the perfect fit for you!

Diving in deeper

If you have trained as a PADI Instructor – you qualify to teach recreational diving, but there is another area of diving that also has a lot of work:

If you have a hunger for knowledge and always up for a challenge, commercial diving can make for an incredibly satisfying career. Just like in recreational diving, there are various types of jobs you can go for in commercial diving.

Professional diving can be exhilarating but requires a great deal of hard work, commitment, skill, and training. You can find companies who rely on marine construction and deep sea research, who require offshore oil explorers, and who buy photographs and compiled videography of the ocean to be hiring commercial scuba divers.

Marine construction and deep sea research hire scuba divers to perform exploration duties of a precise location for research purposes. This research most of the time contributes to helping engineers build underwater structures.

Offshore oil exploration is probably the most profitable commercial diving you could do. Divers are sent to survey an appointed area and/ or perform maintenance. This generally requires a lot of muscle and patience.

The underwater photographer is one of the more enjoyable forms of commercial diving. These scuba divers take underwater pictures, film or perform stunts. This a fun and productive job for those intrigued in the entertainment side of diving or the arts.

All of these commercial diving jobs require specific training of course.

If you like meeting new people and sharing the Island of the God’s prosperous paradise of blue and green, hit us up with your CV! We will be happy to receive and run it through with you about how we run, contact us now.