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Martide blog posts about topics including how to create a better company culture, how to manage employees and how to run a sustainable office.

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How to Handle Bullying in the Maritime Workplace

Nobody likes a bully, but what should you do if you're a manager - or a coworker - of someone who's being bullied in your maritime organization?

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3 Ways to Market Your Business in the Maritime Industry

In the highly competitive maritime industry, marketing your company is no longer a luxury; it's a necessity. Read why - and find out how!

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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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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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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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10 Tips to Make Sure Meetings with Your Crew are Productive

Whether you work in crew management or you're a senior officer on a vessel, these tips help you make sure that your crew meetings are productive.

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How to Ensure Your Shipping Company is More Sustainable

Shipping plays a huge role in global trade but it also has a big impact on the environment. This is how your shipping company can be greener.

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6 Tips for Managing Overly-Emotional Crew & Employees

What do you do when someone in your office or on one of your vessels is either always crying or throwing tantrums? Our 6 tips help you deal!

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How to Give Employees & Crew Constructive Feedback

Unless it's worded carefully many people think constructive criticism is just another way of telling them they've done something wrong.

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Building a Successful Hybrid Maritime Recruitment Team

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

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6 Ways to Be a Greener Shipping Company or Manning Agency

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

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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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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 Teams that Collaborate are Higher Functioning

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

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How to Communicate with Your Remote Teams & Offshore Crew

How do you deal with issues and communicate with teams as someone working in maritime recruitment or crew planning when the people and the issues are geographically all over the place?

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How to Handle Employees & Crew Who Don't Get On

In an ideal world, everyone would get along with one another, but it's a fact of life that not everyone will be the best of friends - or even be able to agree to disagree! So how do you handle that in the office or on a vessel?!

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How to Ensure Your Employees Adopt Your Crewing System

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

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9 Ways to Make Sure Your Office Employees are Motivated

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

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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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Why Your Shipping Company or Manning Agency Needs a Strong Brand

Whether you're a shipowner, shipmanager or a manning agent, company branding is increasingly important. Read more here to find out why.

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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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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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11 Surefire Ways to be More Organized at Work

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

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Why You Need to Learn to Let Go & Start Delegating

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

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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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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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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.