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How Do You Know if Going on a Cruise is Right for You?

Tempted by a cruise ship vacation but not quite ready to make the leap and book it? Our guide helps you determine if cruising is right for you.

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How to Develop an Effective Maritime Recruitment Process

You need a maritime recruitment process that allows quick and cost-effective hiring of seafarers. But how do you develop one? Find out here.

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5 Tips for More Successful Maritime Recruitment Interviews

If candidates are dropping out of your maritime recruitment process, you might need to look at your interview technique. Read on to learn more.

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Why Your Shipping Company or Manning Agency Must be Adaptable in 2026

Why companies in the maritime industry need to be more adaptable and embrace crewing systems and technology to fill your jobs at sea. Read more.

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What is the Best Crew Management Software Solution?

Want to know the best crew management software to help you run your maritime recruitment and crew planning ops more efficiently? Find out here.

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Document Management for Maritime Recruitment: Why Martide Leads

What is document management and how can it help you streamline maritime recruitment and crew planning operations? Read his post to find out.

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What's a Crewing System & Does Your Maritime Recruitment Strategy Need One?

Maritime crewing software systems are essential for more efficient maritime recruitment and growing a candidate database. Here's why. Read more.

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Why You Should Track Your Applicants in Maritime Recruitment

The ATS was developed in the hopes of reducing the time and commitment required when a company is hiring. It helps in candidate selection, but the ATS also gives employers internal insight into their interviewing and hiring process.

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5 Essential Communication Tips for the Maritime Industry

Read our 5 handy tips that explain how to avoid miscommunications and issues with coworkers and crew through better, clearer communication.

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The Simple Guide to Software as a Service

You've heard the term Software as a Service (SaaS) but are you 100% sure what it means and, more importantly, how it could help you run your shipping company or manning agency with more efficiency? A SaaS can be invaluable in streamlining maritime recruitment and crew planning so let's take a look.

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What is a Data Gap & How Can a Crewing System Close It?

Martide loves technology, especially crewing systems! We use our passion and knowledge to help fuel the maritime industry. Tech should make life easier by eliminating mundane tasks and letting you focus on the core of your job.

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Martide vs. CrewInspector: Choosing the Best Crewing Software

What's the best crewing software for shipowners and manning agents? How do crewing systems compare? Let's check out Martide and CrewInspector.

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ERP Software: An Efficient Tool for Maritime Recruitment

Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) software makes maritime recruitment easier by automating admin and tasks, making them less time-consuming.

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14 New Year's Resolutions for Maritime Industry People

Whether you're a Crew Manager, Recruitment Officer or you work in a maritime job at sea, there's no time like New Year to plan for the year ahead

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Martide's Dashboard

If you're a shipowner or crew manager, the first thing you see when you log in to Martide is your Dashboard. This gives you instant visuals of everything that's happening with your vessels, crew and crew change overs.

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How Maritime Crewing Software Helps You Retain Candidates

Fed up of seafaring candidates vanishing during your hiring process? Here's how you can make maritime recruitment easier with crewing software.

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The Martide Guide to Navigating Crew Change Challenges

Find out here how to overcome the challenges you face as a Crew Manager or Manning Agent when it comes to crew changes for your seafarers.

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How to Make Crew Change Overs Easier Than Ever Before

At Martide we know that as crew change dates creep closer, filling some positions can be a source of stress. Not only that but there are so many different components that make up every crew change that simplifying your process is virtually a must. That's why we created the Crew Change feature.

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How to Simplify Seafarer Travel with Integrated Solutions

Want to know how integrated maritime crew management software can help your shipping company or manning agency streamline crew travel? Read this.

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Crew Manager's Guide to Martide's Applicant Tracking System

Are you a crew manager or manning agent that needs a marine applicant tracking system that runs your maritime recruitment? You need Martide!

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Why Is It Free for Maritime Recruiters to Post Jobs on Martide?

Want to know how Martide makes money even though we make maritime recruitment free for Crew Managers & Manning Agents? We tell you the secret here!

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How Keywords & Filters Help Your Maritime Recruitment Ops

Struggling with maritime recruitment? Looking for a more up-to-date way of finding and hiring seafarers? Learn how keywords and filters can help.

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Signs Your Maritime Crewing System Is No Longer Fit for Purpose

Does your maritime crew management system make life harder, not easier? These are the signs to look out for to check if it's time for an upgrade.

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How Martide Makes Arranging Travel for Your Seafarers Easier

If you're a Crew Manager looking for an easier way to arrange travel for your seafarers, Martide's maritime crew management system can help.

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Introducing Our Crewing System's Candidate Forwarding Feature

With Martide's maritime recruitment and crew planning software our aim is to help you streamline your ops by helping you work more efficiently.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Crewing System Software

If you've decided it's time to start running your maritime recruitment & crew planning ops more efficiently, we need to talk about crewing systems!

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Why You're Missing Out On Seafarers if You're Not Using Us!

If you're not using Martide to advertise your jobs at sea you're neglecting a huge number of seafarers who use us to find their next contract.

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New Martide Feature: Vessel Custom Contacts

If you use our maritime recruitment & crewing software or you're after a new crew planning system, learn more about our Vessel Custom Contacts.

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The Beginner's Guide to Crewing System Software

You need to take care of your crew planning & recruitment processes in a more efficient & secure fashion. That's where crewing systems come in.

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Make Maritime Recruitment Easier with Martide's My Tasks

There are loads of time saving features in Martide & in this post we're giving a shout out to one of our unsung heroes: the My Tasks feature.

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Martide is Now Integrated with OCIMF SIRE

Big news for Crew Managers. We're now integrated with OCIMF SIRE meaning you can quickly & easily send your tanker data directly from us to them!

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Make Maritime Recruitment Easier with Assessment Tests

Our online assessment tests make maritime recruitment easier by ensuring seafarers meet your shipping company or manning agency's needs.

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How to Quickly Create Job Vacancies with Data Templates

Crew managers and manning agents love our Data Templates function! We created it so you can set your exact requirements for your jobs at sea. Data Templates make it easy for you to manage different requirements, however big or small.

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Martide's User Groups Make Maritime Recruitment Easier

You're a busy Crew Manager, Maritime Recruitment Officer or Manning Agent. Here's how Martide's User Groups help you delegate tasks to staff.

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Building a Successful Hybrid Maritime Recruitment Team

You still need your maritime recruitment processes and crew planning systems to be working seamlessly if you go hybrid. But how? Here's how.

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6 Ways to Be a Greener Shipping Company or Manning Agency

Going green is a no-brainer for most companies. How can you make your maritime recruitment operations & crew planning systems more eco-friendly?

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How Does Martide Keep Your Documents Secure?

Martide does many things as a crew management and recruitment platform for forward-thinking maritime firms. But how do we keep your data secure?

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Best Crewing System: Martide vs. Cloud Fleet Manager

Which is the best crewing system and maritime recruitment software solution: Martide or Cloud Fleet Manager? In this blog post we take a look.

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Why You Must Harness the Power of Tech in Maritime Recruitment

Times have changed and deciding whether or not to "go digital" is no longer something you can afford to consider in maritime recruitment today. If you're not embracing technology in your shipping company, you're going to fall behind your competitors.

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7 Ways Maritime Recruitment Teams Can Go Paperless

The paperless office is something that most workplaces aspire to be. Eliminating, or at least, reducing, the amount of paper you use is not just better for the planet, it's also kinder on your budget too when you remove the need to purchase paper, printer ink and even files and folders.

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Why Ghosting Candidates Harms Your Maritime Recruitment Ops

It's no secret that candidates ghost employers In your small to mid-size shipping company or manning agency, you've probably had your fair share of applicants who've gotten halfway through the recruiting process and then - poof - suddenly disappeared without trace.

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Creating a Company Profile

As a shipowner or crew manager you may wonder how you get started on our platform. We work hard to ensure our crewing and maritime recruitment management solution is user friendly but we want you to get the most out of Martide so here we'll take you through the steps to create your Company Profile.

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Why Teams that Collaborate are Higher Functioning

Studies have shown that there are three psychological demands when it comes to establishing outstanding workplaces and high-performing teams.

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7 Time Saving Tips for When You Work in Maritime Recruitment

From sourcing seafarers to scheduling interviews to checking documents and finding suitable candidates in time to meet change over dates, your to-do list is often a long and overwhelming one. Here are some tips that will help you save time and reduce your stress levels!

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The Power of a Great ATS in Maritime Recruitment

How can an Applicant Tracking System help you alleviate the stresses and strains caused by constantly worrying about filling your empty jobs at sea? Martide's maritime recruitment ATS is the answer.

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How to Ensure Your Employees Adopt Your Crewing System

Maritime companies of all sizes have found to their cost that flipping a coin or opting for the first crewing system they come across is not the right path to a successful software implementation. And if it's the wrong solution your employees aren't going to be enthusiastic about using it either.

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9 Ways to Make Sure Your Office Employees are Motivated

As a manager or manning agent working in maritime recruitment or crew planning in the shipping industry, you know how important it is to make sure that your office staff - your recruitment operators and your crew planners - are motivated and productive. Here are some tips to make sure that happens!

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Why You Should Adopt Integrated Maritime Recruitment

Using integrated technology to find candidates is far from new. But some companies in maritime recruitment and the industry have fully embraced it by taking the sluggish processes within traditional recruitment systems, refining them, and combining them into one powerful tool for efficiency.

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How to Help Your Manning Agency Win More Clients

If you're a manning agency, you don't need us to tell you that you have a lot of competition - especially if you are located in a country where seafaring is one of the biggest professions. So how do you make sure you stand apart from that competition and attract more clients and better seafarers?

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Organizational Tips for Recruiters in the Maritime Industry

When you work in maritime recruitment and crew planning being organized is crucial. You have so many different aspects of the job to deal with that it can feel like you're juggling twenty tasks at once. In fact, maritime recruitment can feel like regular recruitment on steroids sometimes!

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How Crewing Software Can Increase Retention Rates

Is crew retention an issue in your small to mid sized shipping company? Do you struggle to fill seafarer jobs and hold on to seamen once the contract is over? If the crew you hire are defecting to your competitors you have a problem. One way to solve that is to implement a crewing software solution.

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How to Simplify Seafarer Planning with a Crewing System

If you're a shipowner or manager, you know that ship crew management and planning are a cause of headaches. That's why we've built a feature that takes the stress out of managing and scheduling crew by giving you the ability to see exactly who's on your vessels and who's lined up to sign on and off.

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Pros & Cons of Software as a Service in Maritime Recruitment

The first thing to do when weighing up any kind of business decision is to create a list of pros and cons so that you can see, almost at a glance, if the solution or product you are considering really will work for you.

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Maritime Recruitment Pipelines

We don't believe in one-size-fits-all at Martide. We believe it's your maritime recruitment platform and you should be able to find the ideal crew member for your open seafarer jobs. So we created Recruitment Pipelines where you can add as many or as few steps to your Pipeline as you need.

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Why Collaboration in Maritime Recruitment is Crucial

Collaboration is a word that gets thrown around a lot and as a result it can feel a bit meaningless. But in maritime recruitment and crew planning, collaborating with coworkers can mean the difference between an efficiently run department and one that's struggling to meet crew change dates.

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Why Manning Agents Need to Learn to Love Tech

Many manning agents who work with clients in the shipping industry are struggling to stand out amongst their sea of competitors. After all, crewing agencies are two-a-penny in traditional port towns and cities. But what are the reasons behind this issue? And could technology be the answer?

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What is an Applicant Tracking System in Maritime Recruitment?

Applicant tracking systems (ATS) aren't exactly breaking news, but in the world of maritime recruitment they can be an absolute lifesaver when it comes to sourcing candidates, keeping track of applications, and knowing exactly which stage of the recruitment process a seafarer is at any given time.

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This Martide Feature Helps You Grow Your Candidate Database

We know making sure you have a well-stocked candidate database is vital in maritime recruitment. But aligning some ranks and crew change dates can be easier said than done. And rushing to find not only that rank, but also the right seafarer in that rank, can be stressful. Here's how Martide helps!

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5 Things to Do Once You've Created a Martide Account

Welcome to Martide. We're thrilled that as a shipowner or manager you've decided to simplify your maritime recruitment processes and crewing systems by joining us! If you created a Martide account and are wondering what to do next, read on as we take you through five steps to get you up and running.

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Start Delegating with Martide's User Accounts Function!

For shipowners and managers, delegation is a big part of the job. That's why we created the Users function. It's where you can invite co-workers to create an account with Martide so you can add them to a User Group and give them admin rights to the backend of your applicant tracking system.

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What Do Your Seafarers REALLY Think About You?

As a shipowner it's hard to know what life is like for the seafarers who work for you. If only there was a way to get feedback from your crew. The good news is, there is. It's called Forms and we've created it in Martide for employers who want honest answers to their most pressing questions

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Martide's Clients Function

If you're a shipowner or crew manager offering crew management services to your clients you need to know how to use our Supporters function. This feature lets you give your client as much or as little control as agreed over your maritime recruitment process. Easy crew management and a great USP!

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How to Add Vessels to Martide's Maritime Recruitment Platform

As a shipowner your fleet is at the heart of everything. Martide make it easy to manage vessel data by storing it all in one place. Our crew management platform also takes the hassle out of managing crew numbers and budgets. What's not to love? Here's how to get the most out of your Fleet Page.

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11 Ways to Build Collaborative Teams in Maritime Recruitment

In maritime recruitment you need your team to be as efficient as possible. Our 11 tips (and our crewing system!) help boost collaboration.

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5 Steps to Follow for Successful Software Implementation

Implementing new maritime recruitment software can be a challenge for a number of reasons. One of the biggest hurdles is potential resistance from your employees. Here's how to deal with that, plus some other steps you need to take to ensure that adopting a new way of doing things is plain sailing.

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11 Surefire Ways to be More Organized at Work

If you work in maritime recruitment or crew management you're busy sourcing seafarers, meeting changeover dates, filing documents, scheduling interviews and more. So how do you make life less stressful? If you've a feeling getting organized could help, read on as we look at 11 ways to up your game!

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Why You Need to Learn to Let Go & Start Delegating

As a small to medium sized shipowner or manager, you don't need us to tell you how busy you are. But if you're not delegating to your team, you're missing out on a trick. The thing is, in theory delegation sounds easy - but there's more to it than simply telling someone to “Do that for me, please.”

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Maritime Recruitment Headaches? Let Martide Help!

What are some of the steps that shipping companies can take to promote seafaring as a career and fill their vacant maritime jobs? The need to attract and retain seafarers is a huge issue and one we all need to step up to if shipowners can beat their marine recruitment headaches.

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Make Seafarer Sourcing Plain Sailing with Martide

In this blog post we're going to look at seafarer sourcing from a slightly different perspective and talk you through how using Martide's maritime recruitment and crew management Software as a Service solution can help you with your seaman recruitment woes. Let's get straight down to it!

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5 Ways to Accelerate Your Time to Hire in Maritime Recruitment

In maritime recruitment your time to hire is vital. You've crew change over dates to meet and it's crucial you make the deadlines. But if you're facing an uphill battle when it comes to filling your seafarer job vacancies in a timely fashion, it's time to take a look at what may be slowing you down.

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Is Your Maritime Recruitment Process Losing You Candidates?

Do you feel like you should be getting more candidates applying for your seafarer jobs? You know your company is great to work for but applicants are either not coming through the door or are dropping out of the process halfway through. Could there be an issue with your maritime recruitment process?

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Using Alternative Documents

To make maritime recruitment processes more streamlined and less time consuming we've created Alternative Documents. Usually when you post seafarer jobs on Martide you specify which certificates you need a seafarer to hold before they can apply. Alternative Documents let you override that.

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Simplify Maritime Recruitment with Martide Message Templates

At Martide, we know that as a shipowner or ship manager working in a small to medium sized shipping company, your days are hectic: maritime recruitment, crew management...the list goes on. That's why we've made it far easier for you to stay in touch with candidates, seafarers and manning agents.

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3 Ways to Simplify Your HR & Maritime Recruitment Processes

In maritime recruitment you're not only hiring people for your shore based maritime jobs but also seafarers on contracts. It's not surprising it can feel like your HR department is chasing its own tail half the time! We take a look at how you can simplify your maritime recruitment efforts.

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Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Maritime Candidate Database

Are you a shipowner or manager fed up with trying to grow your candidate database to fill your jobs at sea? We'd love to tell you there's a quick fix solution - but there isn't. However the good news is, there's some sure-fire ways to make the never-ending maritime recruitment drive less painful.

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The Unexpected Way You Can Grow Your Candidate Database

Growing your candidate database can be hard and though there may be plenty of seamen who are looking for jobs at sea, not all of them might make the grade. Of course you want licensed and qualified crew onboard your vessels, but are you being too picky when it comes to hiring for your seafarer jobs?

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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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Reduce Maritime Recruitment Costs with Cloud Computing

There are so many moving parts in maritime recruitment and crew management in this industry that adopting cloud computing and integrated crewing systems has to be the way forward. Here's how Martide can help.

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4 Tips for Developing a Talent Strategy in Maritime Recruitment

As a maritime recruitment company we know the average employee changes their job every four to five years. That's not long to stay with a company that's invested in the recruitment and training of new hires planning. The question is not only how to attract top talent but how to retain it?

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4 Maritime Recruitment Challenges (And How to Solve Them)

Wondering why recruiting the right seafarers for your maritime jobs is such hard work? All you want is to fill your empty seafarer jobs positions with suitable candidates but it seems to be increasingly difficult to hire top talent. How can shipping companies eliminate staffing headaches for good?

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How to Attract the Next Generation in Maritime Recruitment

Are you doing everything you can to attract a new generation of seafarers? Thought you could just place a job ad and wait for applications to roll in? Marine recruitment can be tough! But Martide is here to help - so let's take a look at what today's seafarers expect from the recruitment process.