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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.

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How to Write a Resume for a Seafarer Without Using Clichés

It can be hard writing a resume for a seafarer. You may have lots of experience and be unsure what to include or omit. Or you might be looking for entry level maritime jobs and worry you don't have enough sea time. But one thing you must do when writing a maritime resume is leave out the cliches!

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How to Boost Crew Retention with Tolerance & Diversity

It's no secret many shipping companies struggle with employee and crew retention. Indeed, it's no secret many companies, in any industry, have problems recruiting and retaining staff. So what can be done to tackle this? After all, losing crew to your competitors is not only annoying, but costly too.

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10 Ways You Can Celebrate Christmas When Working at Sea

When you work in a seafarer job, life at sea means being away from home, but at Christmas it can be harder than usual. Here are some coping tips.

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How to Minimize Resume Screening to Maximize Your Recruitment Drive

Do you ever find it hard recruiting for your seafarer jobs? Does anything frustrate you? Hate sorting through all the seafarer resumes? Well there are ways to minimize the time you spend screening whether resumes are paper or online. All you need is a little help from Martide and technology!

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3 Ways to Stop Candidates Ghosting You

You advertise your seafarer jobs. A candidate applies. They've the right qualifications, their documents are valid. You interview them and they're a great fit for your vessel. You negotiate salary, offer them a contract and then...nothing. They disappear. Welcome to the world of candidate ghosting.

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Are Seafarers Being Bombarded with Too Much Technology?

The maritime industry is packing up its sextants and paper charts and increasingly turning to automation and digitization. And while the new way of doing things may be quicker and more cost effective, it doesn't come without a price.

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9 Mistakes to Avoid When Interviewing for Seafarer Jobs

You need to be prepared when you're applying for seafarer jobs so here are 9 helpful tips to help you to nail that seaman job interview!

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4 Questions You May be Asked at Seafarer Job Interviews (And How to Answer Them)

You've been invited to seafarer jobs interviews. Now you need to impress the potential employer so they want to sign that contract. The best way to do that is to be polite, personable, professional - and give great answers to their questions. Martide tells you what those questions might be.