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Martide blog posts about ways to make your seafarer recruitment strategies more robust and streamlined, and less complicated and stressed!
- Guest Blogger
- 30 Sep, 2026
- 05 Mins read
How Recruitment Videos Help Maritime Businesses Attract Top Talent
Stronger, more effective maritime hiring strategies start by showing candidates what the role and the workplace truly look like. Our guest blogger takes a closer looks at maritime recruitment videos.
- Eve Church
- 15 Jul, 2026
- 05 Mins read
Should Your Maritime Business Implement an Intern Program?
Interns should not be used as free menial labor and they must be mentored. Here's how your maritime company can make internships work for you.
- Eve Church
- 29 Jun, 2026
- 08 Mins read
7 Risks of Screening Seafarer Candidates Using Social Media
Screening candidates for seafarer jobs on social media is free, quick and easy. BUT there are things to watch out for. Martide takes a look at a few of the pitfalls to help you decide whether or not candidate screening on social media is right for you.
- Guest Blogger
- 08 Jun, 2026
- 05 Mins read
Over-Indexed on Scale? How Independent Fleets Can Win the Maritime Talent War
These days mariners seek a completely different relationship with their employers, prioritizing transparency, speed, and reliability. Here's how to keep up.
- Gavin Hirst
- 14 May, 2026
- 09 Mins read
Writing Receipt of Application Emails in Maritime Recruitment
How to write great maritime recruitment emails to let your seafarer candidates know you've received their application. Sample templates included!
- Gavin Hirst
- 07 Apr, 2026
- 11 Mins read
Crew Manager Guide to Interview Invitation Emails in Maritime Recruitment
Crew Manager & Manning Agent guide to writing interview invitation emails to make maritime recruitment processes quicker - with sample templates!
- Guest Blogger
- 19 Mar, 2026
- 04 Mins read
How Maritime Employers Can Build Onboarding Packets That Prepare Crews for Success
Maritime employers play a critical role in shaping a seafarer's first experience with a vessel. And that's where onboarding packets come in.
- Eve Church
- 19 Feb, 2026
- 05 Mins read
How to Write Job Offer Emails in Maritime Recruitment
Want to know how to write job offer emails for faster, easier maritime recruitment? Read this blog post and reduce your time to hire today!
- Eve Church
- 01 Feb, 2026
- 09 Mins read
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.
- Gavin Hirst
- 25 Jan, 2026
- 06 Mins read
How to Find Crew for Your LNG Fueled Vessels
LNG fueled ships need crew trained in bunkering and dual fuel engines. Martide helps your maritime recruitment team find candidates. Read more.
- Eve Church
- 18 Jan, 2026
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Gavin Hirst
- 18 Dec, 2025
- 07 Mins read
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.
- Gavin Hirst
- 27 Jul, 2025
- 04 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 22 Jul, 2025
- 05 Mins read
How Crew Managers Can Deal with Language Barriers in 2025
Crew management can be tricky due to language barriers. Read Martide's tips for Crew Managers to help stop any lost in translation issues!
- Gavin Hirst
- 15 Jul, 2025
- 04 Mins read
9 Ways to Optimize Your Maritime Recruitment Strategy
Connecting with qualified seafarers and driving excitement about a position requires finding ways to stand out from other employers. Here are 9.
- Gavin Hirst
- 13 Jul, 2025
- 04 Mins read
What Younger Seafarers Expect from an Employer in 2025: How Martide Leads the Way
Are you a Crew Manager or Manning Agent trying to attract new seafarers? Find out what younger seafarers want from a maritime recruitment process
- Eve Church
- 03 Jul, 2025
- 06 Mins read
Legal Considerations in Maritime Recruitment
From international conventions to contractual obligations, maritime recruitment is subject to strict legal frameworks. Find out more here.
- Gavin Hirst
- 15 Jun, 2025
- 05 Mins read
Why You Should Track Your Applicants in Maritime Recruitment
Applicant Tracking Systems were developed to reduce the time and commitment required when you’re hiring. Here’s how Martide also helps you with that.
- Gavin Hirst
- 17 Apr, 2025
- 04 Mins read
Achieving Greater Diversity in the Maritime Industry
For an internationally competitive and massive industry, the maritime sector still has a thing or two to improve regarding genuine diversity and inclusivity
- Gavin Hirst
- 01 Apr, 2025
- 05 Mins read
Optimizing Maritime Recruitment: The Role of a Hiring Team
What is a hiring team and how can it help you streamline your maritime recruitment operations so that you can meet crew change dates with ease?
- Eve Church
- 20 Mar, 2025
- 09 Mins read
What is a Data Gap & How Can a Crewing System Close It?
Martide loves technology, especially crewing systems. That’s why we use our passion and knowledge to help power maritime recruitment and crew planning.
- Gavin Hirst
- 13 Mar, 2025
- 04 Mins read
The Future of Maritime Job Search: from Desktop to Mobile
Job ads have evolved from printed ads, to advertisements on TV, to websites on the computer, up to the job-hunting apps on smartphones that we have today.
- Gavin Hirst
- 11 Mar, 2025
- 04 Mins read
Easier Maritime Recruitment with Candidate Evaluation Forms
Keeping track of who is who can be challenging when interviewing a lot of seafarers. How can evaluation forms make maritime recruitment easier?
- Gavin Hirst
- 11 Feb, 2025
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 04 Feb, 2025
- 05 Mins read
2025 Recruitment Trends: What Maritime Recruiters Must Know
If you work in maritime recruitment you need to know these 2025 recruitment trends. From digital platforms to AI, tech in recruitment is big news
- Eve Church
- 14 Jan, 2025
- 07 Mins read
Maritime Recruitment Agencies: When & Why to Use Them
Wondering if YOUR shipping company should outsource your crew hiring needs to a specialist maritime recruitment agency? Read our blog to find out
- Gavin Hirst
- 09 Jan, 2025
- 03 Mins read
Why an Organized Interview Is a Must in Maritime Recruitment
If conducted well interviews give an employer a chance to ascertain whether a seafarer's qualifications, background and personality match those of the position.
- Eve Church
- 31 Dec, 2024
- 11 Mins read
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
- Eve Church
- 19 Dec, 2024
- 07 Mins read
10 Tips for Onboarding Seafarers in Maritime Recruitment
Are your Recruitment Officers, Crew Managers and Heads of Department onboarding your new seafarers properly? Read our blog to find out.
- Eve Church
- 03 Dec, 2024
- 07 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 10 Oct, 2024
- 08 Mins read
Adapting to Remote Maritime Recruitment: Challenges & Solutions
If you're a Crew Manager who works remotely, remote maritime recruitment can have its challenges. Read on to find solutions to those challenges.
- Eve Church
- 03 Sep, 2024
- 06 Mins read
Building a Diverse & Inclusive Maritime Recruitment Team
Diversity and inclusion is important in all workplaces, so how do you achieve that within your maritime recruitment & crew planning teams?
- Eve Church
- 18 Jul, 2024
- 06 Mins read
What is AI & How Can it Help Write Your Maritime Job Ads?
Want a quicker way to advertise your seafarer jobs and make maritime recruitment easier? Find out here how A.I. (and Martide!) can help you.
- Eve Church
- 23 Apr, 2024
- 06 Mins read
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!
- Eve Church
- 18 Apr, 2024
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 19 Mar, 2024
- 05 Mins read
Assessing Candidates' Soft Skills in Maritime Recruitment
You assess your seafarers' skills & qualifications in an interview but how much attention do you pay to their soft skills? Here's why it matters.
- Eve Church
- 12 Mar, 2024
- 04 Mins read
7 Best Practices for Finding Crew in Maritime Recruitment
7 best practices for maritime recruitment to equip you with the insights you need to navigate the seas of successful seafarer sourcing.
- Eve Church
- 05 Mar, 2024
- 05 Mins read
The Future of Maritime Recruitment: Adapting to Industry Trends
You need to stay one step ahead of shipping industry trends in maritime recruitment. But what are those trends and how can YOUR business keep up?
- Eve Church
- 08 Feb, 2024
- 04 Mins read
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
- Eve Church
- 30 Jan, 2024
- 04 Mins read
8 Ways to Stop Ghosting Seafarers in Maritime Recruitment
What is candidate ghosting and why do you need to ensure you don't do it? Here's how a maritime recruitment software solution can help you avoid the issue.
- Eve Church
- 04 Jan, 2024
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 28 Feb, 2023
- 06 Mins read
What Makes a Good Manning Agency in Maritime Recruitment?
If you're a small to mid-sized shipping company who wants to work with a manning agency for the first time you might wonder what makes a good manning agent.
- Eve Church
- 14 Feb, 2023
- 06 Mins read
Why Being Organized Increases Candidate Engagement
If your department is still using manual methods and physical filing systems, not only is this far more time consuming and inefficient, it also slows down the hiring process for your seafarers.
- Eve Church
- 07 Feb, 2023
- 05 Mins read
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. Here’s why.
- Eve Church
- 24 Jan, 2023
- 07 Mins read
Pros & Cons of Using Manning Agents for Maritime Recruitment
What are the pros – and what are the cons – of handing over your maritime recruitment needs to a manning or crewing agency? We take a look at both sides.
- Eve Church
- 03 Jan, 2023
- 05 Mins read
7 Ways Maritime Recruitment Teams Can Go Paperless
Eliminating or reducing paper isn’t just better for the planet, it's also kinder on your company budget when you don’t need to purchase paper and printer ink.
- Eve Church
- 29 Dec, 2022
- 07 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 29 Nov, 2022
- 04 Mins read
How to Create a Talent Pipeline in Maritime Recruitment
To be successful in maritime recruitment you must be proactive and target seafarers who are a good fit for your company and building a relationship with them.
- Eve Church
- 22 Nov, 2022
- 05 Mins read
7 Time Saving Tips for When You Work in Maritime Recruitment
From sourcing seafarers to checking documents and finding suitable crew in time to meet change over dates, here are some valuable tips to help you save time.
- Eve Church
- 08 Nov, 2022
- 03 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 01 Nov, 2022
- 10 Mins read
Maritime Recruitment: Ultimate Guide to Filling Jobs at Sea
Are you a small to medium sized shipowner or manager who is fed up of tearing your hair out over the stresses of trying to fill your vacant jobs at sea? Martide's ultimate guide to filling your vacancies should help!
- Eve Church
- 19 Jul, 2022
- 04 Mins read
Why You Should Adopt Integrated Maritime Recruitment
Integrated maritime software takes the sluggish processes within traditional recruitment systems, refines them and helps you find qualified seafarers faster.
- Eve Church
- 12 Jul, 2022
- 05 Mins read
How to Help Your Manning Agency Win More Clients
If you're a manning agency you have a lot of competition. How do you make sure you stand out from the competition and attract more clients and better seafarers?
- Eve Church
- 26 Apr, 2022
- 06 Mins read
Why Great Communication is Essential for Crew Retention
If you're struggling to retain seafarers at the end of contracts there's an issue with your crew retention strategy. So how do you stop crew jumping ship?
- Eve Church
- 01 Mar, 2022
- 07 Mins read
How to Create Deeper Talent Pools for Faster Maritime Recruitment
Put simply, the deeper your talent pool is (the more candidates it has in it) the quicker it will be for you to find the right seafarer for your vacancy.
- Eve Church
- 22 Feb, 2022
- 06 Mins read
5 Reasons You're Struggling to Fill Your Seafarer Jobs
Are you posting adverts for maritime jobs but not attracting the number of applicants you expected? A shortage of candidates is a headache for shipowners and manning agents. You know seafarers are out there but why aren't they biting your arm off for a chance to work for your company?!
- Eve Church
- 15 Feb, 2022
- 05 Mins read
Why Your Candidates Expect You to be Mobile Friendly
Being able to do everything while we're on the move is a way of life. And that means today's seafarer expects to find their next job on their mobile device too.
- Eve Church
- 01 Feb, 2022
- 06 Mins read
Pros & Cons of Software as a Service in Maritime Recruitment
When considering a new maritime software solution, the first thing to do is to create a list of pros and cons so you can see if it really will work for you.
- Eve Church
- 30 Nov, 2021
- 08 Mins read
Why Collaboration in Maritime Recruitment is Crucial
In maritime recruitment and crew planning, collaboration can mean the difference between an efficient department and one that can’t meet crew change dates.
- Eve Church
- 26 Oct, 2021
- 05 Mins read
What is an Applicant Tracking System in Maritime Recruitment?
Applicant tracking systems in maritime recruitment can be a lifesaver when it comes to finding seafarers and keeping track of applications. Find out more here.
- Guest Blogger
- 12 Oct, 2021
- 03 Mins read
4 Benefits Applicants Actually Want (Tip: It's Not Always Money)
You need to attract and retain as many seafarers as possible. We look at a few benefits you can offer to appeal to recruits to offset potential shortages.
- Eve Church
- 05 Oct, 2021
- 05 Mins read
How to Write Maritime Recruitment Video & Phone Interview Invitation Emails
It's often more convenient to interview seafarers by phone or video call due to distance. Here's how to write an email to invite candidates to a call.
- Eve Church
- 07 Sep, 2021
- 12 Mins read
9 Crew Retention Strategies to Stop Seafarers Jumping Ship
Attracting good seafarers during your maritime recruitment ops is one thing. Keeping them is another! Here's 9 crew retention strategies to help.
- Eve Church
- 31 Aug, 2021
- 05 Mins read
How to Host an Online Maritime Recruitment Interview
Whether you're new to interviewing or your hiring team could do with a refresher course, here’s our guide to successful online maritime recruitment interviews.
- Eve Church
- 17 Aug, 2021
- 04 Mins read
What is Mobile Maritime Recruitment?
Are you reading this Martide blog post on your phone? Different devices can affect the way you handle maritime recruitment. Welcome to mobile recruiting.
- Guest Blogger
- 29 Jun, 2021
- 03 Mins read
Building a Strong Online Maritime Recruitment Strategy
Businesses are constantly building their strategies to adapt to an ever-changing world. This is now even more vital with the changes brought about by the pandemic. One business strategy that's rapidly transforming is talent acquisition as recruiters struggle to adjust to a remote hiring process.
- Eve Church
- 27 Apr, 2021
- 07 Mins read
How to Choose the Best Maritime Recruitment Agency
Not getting results from your manning agency? Hiring a recruiter for the first time? Make sure you choose the right team by reading Martide’s blog post first.
- Eve Church
- 09 Feb, 2021
- 08 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 26 Jan, 2021
- 06 Mins read
How to Write Engaging Candidate Sourcing Emails in Maritime Recruitment
Finding seafarers can be broken down into cold candidate outreach and referred outreach. Here’s how to write maritime recruitment email templates for both.
- Eve Church
- 19 Jan, 2021
- 05 Mins read
Why You Need to Up Your Maritime Recruitment Email Game
In maritime recruitment when it comes to sourcing seafarers your recruitment emails need to be good. And this is exactly where email templates can help.
- Eve Church
- 22 Dec, 2020
- 05 Mins read
Why You Shouldn't Cheat on your Maritime Recruitment Agency
You may think that coming from a company who helps shipowners streamline maritime recruitment operations the title of this post is a biased. And you might be right! But stick with us as we explain why only working with one recruitment agency in the maritime industry makes more sense than you think.
- Eve Church
- 01 Dec, 2020
- 06 Mins read
Candidate Evaluation in Maritime Recruitment
If you don't have previous knowledge about a seafarer applicant to one of your job vacancies, candidate evaluation is crucial in maritime recruitment.
- Eve Church
- 03 Nov, 2020
- 05 Mins read
Maritime Recruitment Headaches? Let Martide Help!
The need to attract and retain seafarers can be a huge issue. Here’s how we can help crew managers and manning agents beat their maritime recruitment headaches.
- Eve Church
- 27 Oct, 2020
- 07 Mins read
Tips for Better Candidate Engagement in Maritime Recruitment
Anyone working in maritime recruitment must be proactive: skilled candidates won't drop in your lap. It's frustrating to find the perfect applicant but struggle to get their attention to make them realize they're perfect for your vacancy. So how do you engage with qualified seafarers?
- Eve Church
- 13 Oct, 2020
- 04 Mins read
Make Seafarer Sourcing Plain Sailing with Martide
Here’s how using Martide's maritime recruitment and crew management software can help you with seaman recruitment woes. Let's get straight down to it!
- Eve Church
- 25 Aug, 2020
- 05 Mins read
5 Ways to Accelerate Your Time to Hire in Maritime Recruitment
In maritime recruitment you've crew change over dates to meet but if you're struggling to fill vacancies in time, it's time to look at what’s slowing you down.
- Eve Church
- 11 Aug, 2020
- 05 Mins read
How to Attract Tech Talent in Maritime Recruitment
The need for tech savvy people and seafarers means many shipping companies struggle to attract employees and contractors who have the latest technical skills. There's a number of reasons and we take a look at some of them and consider how to address the lack of tech talent in the maritime industry.
- Eve Church
- 04 Aug, 2020
- 05 Mins read
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?
- Eve Church
- 18 May, 2020
- 05 Mins read
Why You Need to Start Hiring Seafarers with Tech Skills
If you think about it from a traditional point of view, it might seem a little strange needing a seafarer who lists coding, programming or other techie skills on his or her maritime resume. But times are changing and like many sectors, the maritime industry is now starting to embrace digitization.
- Eve Church
- 29 Apr, 2020
- 05 Mins read
How to Identify Red Flag Candidates in Maritime Recruitment
You're hiring for your open seafarer jobs and your crewing system and maritime recruitment process are working well. Now you're at the interview stage. Some of your interviewees are great all the way through the interview...but others, well others, might set alarm bells ringing halfway through.
- Eve Church
- 20 Apr, 2020
- 06 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 11 Mar, 2020
- 06 Mins read
How Maritime Recruitment Fairs Can Boost Your Candidate Database
Maritime recruitment fairs are great places to meet seafarers and add them to your candidate database. Here are some tips for getting the most out of them.
- Eve Church
- 04 Mar, 2020
- 05 Mins read
How to Use Social Media to Up Your Maritime Recruitment Game
Is it getting harder to fill your seafarer jobs? Join Martide as we investigate how social media can be a source of candidates to fill your crewing positions.
- Eve Church
- 28 Feb, 2020
- 08 Mins read
How to Write Eye-Catching Maritime Recruitment Job Ads
Finding crew can sometimes feel like a never-ending struggle. And that's why you must ensure the seafarer job adverts you post are, well, doing their job!
- Eve Church
- 24 Feb, 2020
- 13 Mins read
Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Maritime Candidate Database
Fed up with trying to grow your seafarer candidate database? The good news is, Martide helps make the never-ending maritime recruitment drive less painful.
- Eve Church
- 19 Feb, 2020
- 05 Mins read
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?
- Eve Church
- 29 Jan, 2020
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 20 Jan, 2020
- 06 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 13 Jan, 2020
- 06 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 06 Jan, 2020
- 04 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 02 Jan, 2020
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 30 Dec, 2019
- 03 Mins read
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?
- Eve Church
- 20 Dec, 2019
- 05 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 18 Dec, 2019
- 04 Mins read
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.
- Eve Church
- 28 Nov, 2019
- 04 Mins read
How to Minimize Resume Screening to Maximize Your Recruitment Drive
Do you hate sorting through all those seafarer resumes? Now you can minimize the time you spend screening CVs with a little help from Martide and technology!
- Eve Church
- 26 Nov, 2019
- 06 Mins read
3 Ways to Stop Candidates Ghosting You
A seafarer applies for your job and they're a great fit for your vessel. You offer them a contract and then they disappear. Welcome to the world of ghosting.
- Eve Church
- 18 Nov, 2019
- 05 Mins read
3 Questions to Ask Candidates in Maritime Recruitment
Improving candidate experience makes it more likely that you’ll be able to hire better seafarers. And one way to do that is to ask better interview questions.
- Eve Church
- 13 Nov, 2019
- 04 Mins read
Reduce Maritime Recruitment Costs with Cloud Computing
There are so many moving parts in maritime recruitment and crew management that adopting cloud computing and integrated crewing systems is the way forward.
- Eve Church
- 11 Nov, 2019
- 05 Mins read
Boost Your Maritime Recruitment Efforts with Employee Referrals
Finding qualified crew can be time consuming. Encourage your seafarers to refer friends and co-workers they think will be a good fit for your company.
- Eve Church
- 05 Nov, 2019
- 05 Mins read
Why LinkedIn Can be a Better Maritime Recruitment Tool than a Resume
Are reading endless seafarer resumes slowing your maritime recruitment process down? You're not alone. Recruiters are using LinkedIn for the initial screening.
- Eve Church
- 28 Oct, 2019
- 06 Mins read
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?
- Eve Church
- 25 Oct, 2019
- 03 Mins read
How to Write Candidate Rejection Emails in Maritime Recruitment
You could ignore seafarers who haven't been hired but as a professional maritime recruitment agency it's nicer to tell your unsuccessful applicants. Here's why.
- Eve Church
- 21 Oct, 2019
- 04 Mins read
4 Maritime Recruitment Challenges (And How to Solve Them)
Wondering why recruiting the right seafarers for your maritime jobs is such hard work? Here’s how shipping companies can eliminate crewing headaches for good.
- Eve Church
- 16 Oct, 2019
- 04 Mins read
Why You Should Hire a Head of Talent in Maritime Recruitment
Can your shipping company afford to operate without a Head of Talent? Considering the current skills shortage in the maritime industry the answer may be “No.” Talent acquisition is vital if you want to stay ahead and a busy shipowner needs someone to take care of maritime recruitment for them.
- Eve Church
- 24 Sep, 2019
- 03 Mins read
Changes in Maritime Recruitment: How Can You Fill your Jobs at Sea?
We're facing a skills shortage but there's still a huge need for seafarers so what needs to change to ensure you get first pick when looking for qualified crew?
- Eve Church
- 13 Sep, 2019
- 03 Mins read
How to Encourage More Women to Apply for Maritime Jobs
That there is a lack of women in seafarer jobs will come as a shock to absolutely no-one. But how does the maritime industry encourage females to work at sea?
- Eve Church
- 05 Sep, 2019
- 04 Mins read
How to Tell You've Found the Right Recruits for Your Jobs at Sea
We take a closer look at what crew managers or manning agents should watch out for when you’re interviewing seafarers you don’t know for your jobs at sea.
- Eve Church
- 15 Jul, 2019
- 04 Mins read
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.