jobs & careers

Find Cargo Ship Jobs with the Martide Mobile App

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

jobs & careers

How to Find Crew for Your LNG Fuelled Ships

LNG fuelled ships are potentially changing the future of the maritime industry. Liquefied Natural Gas has been proven to be a feasible replacement for oil based fuel. But as with any new marine tech this game changer for commercial shipping doesn't come without issues.

industry news

Maritime News: The IMO’s 2020 Global Sulphur Cap

Currently making the world maritime news is the International Maritime Organization’s plan to implement a global sulphur cap. But if you haven’t had a chance to read up on this huge change for the shipping industry yet, Martide have the lowdown on what it is and what it means for shipping companies.

jobs & careers

How to Prepare for an Interview in the Maritime Industry

No matter how much experience you have in the maritime industry being prepared for an interview is the difference in acing it and landing a job or contract or blowing it. Preparation enables you to be more focused and more likely to impress your potential employer. Here’s how to do that.

jobs & careers

Career Opportunities with Arriva and Martide

Martide is very pleased to be working alongside Arriva Shipping, a family-owned company that has been forging a successful path for itself in the maritime industry since 1972. Arriva’s vessels are equipped with excavators and as such we are looking for able seamen with excavator driver experience.

recruitment

How to Encourage Women to Join the Maritime Industry

That there is a dearth of women in maritime will come as a shock to absolutely no-one. The reasons why have been discussed at length, so how do we as an 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!

manning agent guides

A Manning Agent's Guide to Submitting Candidates

Martide’s recruitment platform is intuitive and easy to use for crew manning agencies in the maritime industry. Finding seafarers for your clients is simpler and this blog explains how to submit a candidate to open shipping jobs.

jobs & careers

Martide's Hot Maritime Job Vacancies for September

Are you a seafarer looking for your next contract at sea? Martide are a specialist marine recruitment agency that works with prestigious clients in the shipping industry. We are currently recruiting for a wide range of merchant navy ranks and maritime jobs including junior electricians and fitters.

shipowner guides

A Shipowner's Guide to Wage Scales

If you’re a shipowner whose least favourite crew management task is calculating salaries you’ll love Wage Scales. This feature makes life much easier by quickly determining the salary for a position even if math isn't your strong point!

shipowner guides

A Shipowner's Guide to the Teammates Function

For shipowners and managers, delegation is a big part of the job. That’s why we created the Teammates 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.

martide

August Updates on the Martide Platform

Far from spending their time sunning themselves somewhere exotic this summer, Martide’s Development Team have been hard at work making a host of changes for users of our crew management and maritime recruitment software solution. Our knowledge base article takes a closer look.

shipowner guides

A Shipowner's Guide to the Supporters Function

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

recruitment

How to Tell You've Found the Right Person for the Job

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.

shipowner guides

A Shipowner's Guide to Using Alternative Documents

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

recruitment

What Generation Z Expects from an Employer

Are Generation Z young upstarts who haven’t earned their stripes? Maybe but employers have found potential employees making greater demands than ever. And in a job market suffering from a skills shortage it’s vital that shipping companies address this to attract top talent in the maritime industry.

industry news

Why the Shipping Industry Needs to be More Adaptable

The dictionary defines adaptability as “...being able to adjust to new conditions.” And it’s a crucial trait for the shipping industry to possess: technology has infiltrated every facet of our traditional sector and maritime companies who bury their heads in the sand need to shape up or ship out.

jobs & careers

How to Prepare for a Skype Interview in the Maritime Industry

The nature of the shipping industry means many of Martide’s clients operate globally. And the seafarers who apply for our maritime jobs are located anywhere from the UK to China. This means conducting interviews face-to-face can be a real challenge - but luckily Skype interviews can save the day.

recruitment

5 Reasons Your Shipping Company is Short of Candidates

Are you posting shipping job vacancies but not attracting the number of applicants you expected? A shortage of job applicants can be a real headache for shipowners and managers. You know seafarers out there - but why aren’t they biting your arm off for a chance to work for your shipping company?

shipowner guides

How to Set a Candidate to Ex-Crew in Martide

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.

jobs & careers

Does Your CV Make You Shine?

Knowing you need a great CV to stand out from the crowd is one thing. Knowing how to achieve that can be another. So in a crowded marketplace such as the shipping industry, how do you make sure you rise head and shoulders above your fellow seafarers and get the jobs in shipping that you really want?

shipowner guides

A Shipowner's Guide to Interview Kits

Martide make sourcing and recruiting seafarers easier. But as a maritime recruitment agency we know there’s no such thing as ‘one size fits all’ when interviewing in the shipping sector. We created our Interview Kits feature so shipowners can customise recruitment processes from within our platform.

recruitment

The Shipowner's Guide to Navigating a Job Fair

Maritime job fairs are great for shipowners to get acquainted with seafarers and cadets looking for jobs in the shipping industry. Plus they provide you with stealth opportunities to identify top talent and establish a connection with standout mariners before everyone gets their hands on them!

recruitment

Why You Shouldn't Cheat on your Recruitment Agency

If you want to fill crewing vacancies surely it’s wise to sign up with as many recruiters as possible? Actually no. If you’re seeking candidates looking for jobs in the shipping industry (or any industry) it’s best to spend a little time researching then choosing one recruitment agency to work with.

manning agent guides

Martide Features Manning Agents Should Know About

If you’re a manning agent our website has some useful features that you may not know about. If you’ve already discovered them, great. Maybe you’ve seen them but not really known what they are, or maybe this is a complete revelation to you. If it’s either of the last two, read on as we reveal all!

shipowner guides

A Shipowner's Guide to Recruitment Pipelines

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