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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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How Travel Agents Can Generate More Business with Martide

Are you a travel agent working with clients in the maritime industry? Here's how Martide's maritime crew management software can benefit you both

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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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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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Come and Hang Out with Martide on Social Media!

Martide are on social media. Why not come on over and say hello, like and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn? We post blogs, tips and tricks, seafarer quotes, news and points of interest in the maritime industry - and of course our latest seafarer jobs!

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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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Add Your Maritime Training Center to an Online Directory Now

If you're a seafarer training center or maritime training academy, help new clients find you by adding your details to an online maritime directory.

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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 Organize & Store Your Seafarers' Travel Documents

Are you a Crew Manager needing an easier way to store your seafarers' travel documents? Learn about our maritime crew management software here.

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Perks of Online Maritime Directories for Working Gear Suppliers

As a supplier of work and safety gear in the maritime industry, would YOU like a free and easy way to attract new clients? Read this and find out how.

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Why You Must Add Your Medical Center to a Maritime Directory

Are you a maritime health center or medical center for seafarers? If so here's 8 reasons why you must add your info to an online maritime directory.

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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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Why You Must Add Your Business to an Online Maritime Directory

Why manning agents, working gear suppliers, medical centers, training providers & travel agencies must add their details to an online maritime directory.

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January to March 2024 Martide Crew Management System Updates

Want to find out what upgrades & changes we've made to our maritime crew management system and recruitment platform since the start of the year?

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5 Reasons Why Travel Agents Should Create a Martide Account

Are you a travel agent who wants to grow your business by tapping into the maritime travel sector? Here's how Martide helps you gain new clients.

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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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Enjoy More Efficient Maritime Recruitment for FREE!

Our maritime crew management system streamlines your crucial ops to make life simpler for Recruitment Officers, Crew Managers and Manning Agents

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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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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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Maritime Recruitment & Crewing Software Fall Update

From September through November, here's what we've launched, implemented and tweaked in our crewing system and maritime recruitment software.

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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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A Manning Agent's Guide to Submitting Candidates for Jobs

Martide's maritime recruitment platform is intuitive and easy to use for manning agencies in the industry and it makes finding seafarers for your clients simpler. This blog explains how to submit a candidate to open seafarer jobs.

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Your Guide to Creating a Seafarer Resume Online

We make it easy for anyone looking for seafarer jobs to apply for vacancies. Create an online seafarer resume with a Martide User Profile and once you've filled in your information, that's the one and only time you'll ever have to do it. Here's how to get started.

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Martide Maritime Recruitment & Crewing System Summer Summary

A round-up of all of our maritime recruitment and crew planning system's upgrades and new features that our teams achieved over the summer months

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Martide Makes Maritime Recruitment Easier for Manning Agents

Take a look at our blog post about the features Martide's crewing system, crew planning and maritime recruitment platform has for manning agents.

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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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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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Seafarer's Guide to Your Martide Message Inbox

If you've applied for seafarer jobs through Martide, employers and manning agents can communicate with you about your applications through our messaging feature. When you create an account with Martide you'll be given your own private inbox - here's how to get the most from it.

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How Martide's App Helps Solve Maritime Recruitment Challenges

Are you looking for a simple way to solve your maritime recruitment challenges? Martide has created a mobile app for seafarers that gives them easy access to all of your jobs at sea. It also allows you to stay in touch with them (and them with you) no matter where in the world you both are.

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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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3 Steps to Getting Started with Martide for Manning Agents

Manning agents have lots of plates to spin to ensure a balance in finding seafarers crewing vacancies and helping shipowners fill open seafaring jobs quickly. In this post we're giving manning agents in the maritime industry the lowdown on logging into and getting started with their Martide account.

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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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How to Keep Track of the Seafarer Jobs You've Applied For

At Martide we make it easier to apply for seafarer jobs through our maritime jobs board. If you're a seafarer looking for jobs at sea who's applied for a vacancy with us you need to know how you can keep track of your applications. That's where the handy My Jobs feature comes in.

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Manning Agent Guide to the Martide Message Inbox

As a manning agent you can send messages and respond to the employers / clients you work with, as well as any of the seafarers in Martide's system, using our in-built messaging feature. Here's how to get the most from your inbox.

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How to Find Your Next Seafarer Job with Martide

If you're looking for seafarer jobs, we're pleased to say that you've come to the right place! At Martide we have a quality selection of different types of maritime jobs ready and waiting for qualified seamen to apply to. In this blog post we're going to look at how to find your next cargo ship job.

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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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A Guide to Creating Maritime Job Vacancies on Martide

Martide's maritime recruitment software helps shipowners and managers streamline their candidate sourcing, interviewing and hiring processes. From the moment you post a job to the minute you hire a recruit, we're with you every step of the way. We'll walk you through the process to get you started.

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A Handy Hack To Streamline Your Maritime Recruitment Process

If you're a shipowner, ship manager or manning agent we thought you might like to know about a new feature that our Development Team released recently. This handy little hack in Martide's platform allows you to set a candidate as an ex-crew member.

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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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How to Build a Resume for a Seaman with Martide

We all have plenty of those annoying little tasks to do that fall under the umbrella of 'life admin' and if you've ever looked for a seafarers job you'll probably agree that writing a resume for a seaman is one of them! That's why building your maritime resume online with Martide is the way forward.

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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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Looking for Seafarer Jobs & Need Martide Support?

If you're a seaman or woman who uses Martide to search for the latest seafarer jobs using our website or app, our goal is to make life as easy as possible for you. Here's how to contact us should you need support.

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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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How to Find Seafarer Jobs with Martide's Mobile App

Are you a seafarer looking for jobs at sea? Want a way to find your next crewing vacancy quickly and easily wherever you are? Applied for maritime jobs and would like to track your application? The Martide mobile app is the solution if you're looking for seafarer job vacancies on the go!

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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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How to Store Your Seafarer Resume & Documents Online

Losing (or forgetting) your seafarer documents when you're traveling for jobs at sea can be a nightmare. Printing endless copies of your seafarer resume is a hassle. That's why storing them online in the Cloud makes perfect sense. Here's how to do that.

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7 Reasons Why You Should Look For Seafarer Jobs Online

If you usually try traditional ways to find seafarer jobs we're going to ask you to take a leap of faith and try the online way of looking for jobs at sea. Bear with us while we explain why looking for seamen jobs online is the way to go. In fact we've 7 reasons why you should look for jobs online!

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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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Contracts to Careers: Find Jobs at Sea with Martide

Whether you're thinking of embarking (pun intended!) upon careers at sea and are looking for entry level cargo ship jobs or you're a seasoned professional looking for a change of job or company, Martide has the jobs at sea you're looking for.

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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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Why Manning Agents Should Join Our Approved Partner Network

Newcomers to Martide's maritime recruitment and crew management solution might wonder what the difference between our Existing and Approved Networks of manning agents is. So if you're one of those manning agents - or a shipowner - you're in luck as we're going to explain exactly that in this post!