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Over-Indexed on Scale? How Independent Fleets Can Win the Maritime Talent War

These days, mariners are seeking a completely different relationship with their employers, prioritizing transparency, speed, and reliability. Here's how to keep up.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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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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.

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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'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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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!

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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.

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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

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Legal Considerations in Maritime Recruitment

From international conventions to contractual obligations, maritime recruitment is subject to strict legal frameworks. Find out more here.

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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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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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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

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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?

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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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The Future of Maritime Job Search: from Desktop to Mobile

Job ads have evolved from printed ads on posters and newspapers, to advertisements on TV, to online websites on the computer, up to the job-hunting apps in smartphones that we have today.

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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?

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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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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

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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

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Why an Organized Interview Is a Must in Maritime Recruitment

If conducted well, the interview gives the employer a chance to ascertain whether an applicant's qualifications, background, and personality match those of the position.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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COVID-19 & Maritime Recruitment: Lessons Learned

Maritime recruitment and crew planning saw huge challenges during COVID-19. But what were the issues faced and the lessons learned? We look back.

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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?

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What To Do if a Fake Agency is Advertising Jobs in Your Name

If you've realized that a fake manning agency is advertising YOUR maritime jobs to unsuspecting seafarers, you need to take action. Here's how.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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?

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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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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 maritime recruitment software can help you avoid the issue.

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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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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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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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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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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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What Makes a Good Manning Agency in Maritime Recruitment?

If you're a small to medium-sized shipping company who wants to enhance your maritime recruitment operations and you're either looking to work with a manning agency for the first time or you're seeking to switch maritime recruitment suppliers you might be wondering what makes a good manning agent.

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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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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.

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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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Pros & Cons of Using Manning Agents for Maritime Recruitment

Due to the challenges of controlling recruitment activities, managing expenses, planning the rotation and ensuring seafarers well-being, there has been a number of owners who have decided to hand this task over to specialized crewing providers.

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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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How to Create a Talent Pipeline in Maritime Recruitment

In maritime recruitment, you can't rely on the best seafarers applying organically for your jobs anymore. To be successful long term you must be proactive, targeting the candidates that are a great fit for your shipping company and building a relationship with them.

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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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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!

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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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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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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. Being unable to keep the best seamen and seeing them walk away to line up their next contract with your competitors is frustrating and costly. So how do you stop crew jumping ship?

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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 Create Deeper Talent Pools for Faster Maritime Recruitment

Talent pools are a bit of a recruitment buzzword. People love talking about them, about how to deepen their pool and how to go about creating one. 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 person for your vacancy.

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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?!

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Why Your Candidates Expect You to be Mobile Friendly

Smartphones, apps and being able to do virtually everything while we're on the move are, quite simply, a way of life nowadays. And that also means that today's job seeker expects to be able to find their next job or contract on their mobile device too.

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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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4 Benefits Applicants Actually Want (Tip: It's Not Always Money)

There will be a predicted shortage of 89,510 officers by 2026. To prevent this, employers will need to attract and retain as many potential seafarers as possible. We take a look at a few benefits you can offer to appeal to new recruits to offset any potential shortages.

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How to Write Maritime Recruitment Video & Phone Interview Invitation Emails

In the shipping industry it's often more convenient to interview candidates for your maritime jobs over the phone or by video call given the distances involved. Here's how to write a video or phone interview invitation email template to invite candidates to a call.

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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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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.

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How to Host an Online Maritime Recruitment Interview

Whether you're new to recruitment and interviewing, you're making the switch from phone interviews to video interviews, or you just feel that some of your hiring team could do with a refresher course, we've written this blog post as a guide to successful online maritime recruitment interviews.

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What is Mobile Maritime Recruitment?

Are you reading this blog post on your laptop or desktop computer? Or are you reading it on your phone? Why are we asking, you might wonder. But trust us, there is a point to this. And it can affect the way you run your maritime recruitment and crew planning operations. Welcome to mobile recruiting.

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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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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.

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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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How to Choose the Best Maritime Recruitment Agency

Are you a shipowner looking for a maritime recruitment agency to fill your seafarer jobs? Maybe you're not getting results from your current crewing company. Perhaps you're hiring a recruiter for the first time. Make sure you choose the right team for the job by reading this post first.

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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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How to Write Engaging Candidate Sourcing Emails in Maritime Recruitment

Sourcing candidates for your vacant jobs at sea by email can be broken down into cold candidate outreach and referred outreach. This step-by-step guide looks at how to write maritime recruitment email templates for both methods to make your life less stressful and your time to hire shorter!

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Why You Need to Up Your Maritime Recruitment Email Game

As a company working in maritime recruitment we know that when it comes to sourcing top talent for your jobs at sea your recruitment emails need to be top notch. But it's unrealistic to think you're going to handcraft every email you send to every candidate. Which means turning to email templates.

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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.

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Candidate Evaluation in Maritime Recruitment

If you don't have previous knowledge of an applicant to one of your seafarer jobs, candidate evaluation is crucial in maritime recruitment. Yes you need to hire someone qualified and experienced but you want to pick the right seafarer by learning more about their background and personality too.

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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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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?

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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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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.

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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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Why Listening is Vital for Crew Retention

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing the best of your candidates finish a contract, disembark from your vessel, head home for a rest...then disappear never to be heard from again. Crew retention issues are stressful! Here's why listening is a crucial tool in the war against vanishing crew.

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How Transparency Can Improve Your Crew Retention Rates

In this blog post we're going to examine another way you can create better and more honest engagement with the seamen and women who apply for your maritime job vacancies, and therefore increase the chances of them remaining loyal to your shipping company. It's time to talk about transparency.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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How Maritime Recruitment Fairs Can Boost Your Candidate Database

Maritime recruitment fairs are great places for shipowners to meet seafarers and cadets and add them to their candidate database. Plus they provide you with stealth opportunities to identify top talent and establish a connection with standout seamen before everyone gets their hands on them!

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How to Use Social Media to Up Your Maritime Recruitment Game

Is it getting harder to fill your seafarer jobs in the maritime industry? Is the dwindling talent pool getting you down? Perhaps the amount of crew transitioning to shore-based jobs is taking its toll. If so join Martide as we investigate how social media can be a rich source of candidates.

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How to Write Eye-Catching Maritime Recruitment Job Ads

Filling positions and growing your candidate database can be tricky in many sectors but in the maritime industry with its constant turnover of contracts and crew retention issues, it can feel like a never ending struggle.That's why you must ensure the job adverts you post are, well, doing their job!

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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 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

Social media is a polarizing topic but whether you love it or hate it, one thing's for sure and that is that companies need it. And that includes your small to medium sized shipping company. Don't believe us? We look at some of the reasons why you should consider having a social media presence.

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4 Tips To Help You Interview Millennials in Maritime Recruitment

When you're looking for candidates to fill your seafarer jobs, you meet seamen ranging from cadets to experienced masters and chief officers. And somewhere in the middle of those age groups lie millennials. And you may find you need to adjust your traditional interview process to deal with them.

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Is Your Current Maritime Recruitment Agency Responsive Enough?

If you're a shipowner using maritime recruitment agencies to fill your jobs at sea, you need to know you're getting good value for money. Luckily there's ways to tell if the agency or consultant you work with is fulfilling their obligations, and one of those is looking at how responsive they are.

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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

The shipping industry isn't immune to the impact technology is having on the workplace. We are living, working and crewing in an age that requires us to be more switched on than ever. So should you be hiring more tech savvy seafarers to fill your jobs at sea?

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How to Turn Your Employees into Brand Advocates

Not convinced that your employees and contractors can help you fill your vacant seafarer jobs? What if we told you that your employees' social media posts are likely to be way more effective than your official business or company page? How much is 'way more'? It's 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.

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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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5 Risks of Using Social Media to Screen Your Candidates

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 as a small to medium sized shipping company decide whether or not candidate screening on social media is right for you.

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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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3 Questions to Ask Candidates in Maritime Recruitment

One thing being talked about in recruitment for seafarer jobs at the moment is candidate experience. The theory is that by improving this and engaging better with potential employees, you'll be more likely to acquire top talent. And one way to do that is to ask better interview questions.

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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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Boost Your Maritime Recruitment Efforts with Employee Referrals

Filling empty seafarer jobs with qualified crew can be time consuming and frustrating. You can remove some of that headache by encouraging your contractors and employees to refer friends, acquaintances and former co-workers they think will be a good fit for your shipping company.

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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!

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Why LinkedIn Can be a Better Maritime Recruitment Tool than a Resume

Are you a shipowner or manning agent tired of how reading endless seafarer resumes is slowing your maritime recruitment processes down? Do you worry the CVs you receive might not be the truth and nothing but the truth? You're not alone. Recruiters are turning to LinkedIn for the initial screening.

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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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How to Write Candidate Rejection Emails in Maritime Recruitment

Being the bearer of bad news is never nice but when it comes to candidate rejection emails it's better to bite the bullet. Sure, you could just ignore seafarers who haven't made the grade, but as a marine recruitment agency we think it's better to tell your unsuccessful applicants. Here's why.

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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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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.

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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 for shipping companies or marine recruitment agencies to give up isn't an option. What needs to change for shipowners to ensure they get first pick when looking for qualified seafarers who are looking for jobs at sea?

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How to Encourage More Women to Apply for Maritime Jobs

That there is a lack of women in maritime jobs will come as a shock to absolutely no-one. The reasons why have been discussed at length so how does the industry encourage females and increase the number of women at sea? After all, this rewarding career and a life at sea should be open to all!

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How to Tell You've Found the Right Recruits for Your Jobs at Sea

It can be hard knowing if you've found the right person for a job but there are often tell tale signs if an applicant is going to work out in the maritime industry or not. We take a look at what shipowners or managers should watch out for when interviewing seafarers for vacant jobs at sea.

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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.