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How Up-to-Date is the Maritime Recruitment Agency You Use?

In shipping, not everyone is onboard when it comes to abandoning old practices and embracing new. Do your maritime recruitment agencies fall into that category? If you suspect the companies you use to fill your maritime jobs could be more efficient it's time to take a look at who you partner with.

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How to Read Candidate Body Language in Maritime Recruitment

Whether you're an employer or a maritime recruitment agency, some seafarers you interview might be nervous. Here's how to read body language so you can spot the signs of nerves and not jump to unfair conclusions about a person.

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Why Your Shipping Company Needs a Social Media Presence

Whether you love it or hate it, one thing’s for sure and that’s that your small to mid-sized shipping company or manning agency needs a social media presence.

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4 Tips To Help You Interview Millennials in Maritime Recruitment

When you're looking for crew you meet everyone from cadets to masters. And millennials. Here’s why you may need to adjust your interview process for them.

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Is Your Current Maritime Recruitment Agency Responsive Enough?

If you use maritime recruitment agencies, you need to know you're getting value for money. Being responsive is a good benchmark to how effective your agency is.

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4 Ways to Motivate Staff to Make Crew & Employee Referrals

If you're thinking about implementing an employee referral scheme in your shipping company to help fill your seafarer jobs, it's only going to work if you know how to motivate your staff to participate in it. So just how do you go about doing that? Martide has the answers.

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Why You Need Tech-Savvy Seafarers to Fill Your Jobs at Sea

We’re working and crewing in an age that needs us to be more switched on than ever. Should you be hiring tech savvy seafarers to fill your jobs at sea?

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How to Turn Your Employees into Brand Advocates

Your employees' social media posts are likely to be way more effective than your official business or company page’s? How much more? About eight times more.

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Is Your Maritime Recruitment Agency Finding You the Best Seafarers?

Finding the right crew to fill your seafarer jobs is hard if the maritime recruitment agencies you work with aren't doing their jobs properly. You need to be sure the seamen they pick from their candidate database are right. So let's look at how to choose a partner to help you fill your vacancies.