Martide Blog: Maritime Industry, Recruitment & Job Seeker Tips

4 Ways to be Confident Without Bragging in Maritime Job Interviews

In this post we’re looking at an issue that can make a big difference when interviewing for maritime jobs: showing off! The thing is, you definitely want to highlight your skills and what sets you apart from other candidates, but you need to do it in a way that doesn’t come across as big headed.

Recruitment

What is a Crewing System & Why Does Your Maritime Recruitment Strategy Need One?

How can you make your life easier while also giving your maritime recruitment drive the shot in the arm it needs? What is the one thing you can do to reduce your time to hire, fill vacancies more quickly and easily, and grow your seafarer candidate database? It’s time to talk about crewing systems.

Martide

Maritime Recruitment to Seafarer Jobs: Martide’s 20 Most-Read Blogs of 2019

We know most of Martide’s blog posts cover maritime recruitment or seafarer jobs, but for this blog post we’re going to do something a little different. Although we’re already well into March 2020 we thought it would be interesting to look back and see which of our posts were the most read in 2019.

Recruitment

How to Pick the Right Maritime Recruitment Agency for You

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.

Jobs & Careers

Insider Interview Tips to Win the Best Jobs at Sea

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.

Recruitment

Grow Your Candidate Database with Manning Agents & Crewing Systems

Would your shipping company benefit from a crewing system that helps you streamline your hiring processes and manage seafarers more efficiently? Perhaps you’d find value in working with a maritime recruitment platform that gives you access to international manning agents? Let Martide show you how.

Jobs & Careers

5 Ways to Make Your Search for Jobs at Sea Easier

If you’re not naturally organized it can be overwhelming always thinking about finding your next seafarer job vacancy. That’s why we’re looking at how to organize your search for jobs at sea. Because when you’re more organized you can concentrate on your current job and enjoy your shore leave more!

Recruitment

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!

Jobs & Careers

This is Where You Can Find the Best Seafarer Jobs

There’s a number of ways to find seafarer jobs. Whether you’re an experienced seaman or looking for entry level cargo ship jobs, we take a closer look here. From social media to crew jobs boards to working with a maritime recruitment agency, here’s the complete lowdown on where to find jobs at sea.

Martide

February Updates on Martide.com

Welcome to our monthly rundown of a few of the most useful and interesting tweaks, upgrades and new features that our Development Team worked on during the previous month. This is what happened in February.

Recruitment

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.

Jobs & Careers

Your Guide to Different Types of Seafarer Jobs

There’s so many seafarer jobs that a full list might stretch the length of a container ship’s deck and back! Maritime jobs are so varied it’s almost impossible to create a comprehensive guide to all of them in one place. But if you’re thinking about jobs at sea you really need to do your research.

Recruitment

Write Eye-Catching Seafarer Job Ads and Grow Your Candidate Database

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!

Jobs & Careers

Your Guide to Maritime Training for Jobs at Sea

In jobs at sea, the potential for career growth, whether you’re moving up the career ladder, or sideways to experience new things is amazing. But one thing you do need, whatever job role you choose, is a solid foundation of seafarer training.

Recruitment

The 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.

Jobs & Careers

The Ultimate Guide to Finding Jobs at Sea

In a series of articles Martide is looking at everything to do with finding jobs in the maritime industry. We’re exploring the different ways you can find jobs at sea, from finding out which job is right for you to maritime training and from organizing your job search to impressing an interviewer.

Recruitment

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?

Martide

A Brand New Look for Your Martide Messages Inbox

Have you taken a look at your Martide messages inbox lately? If so, you’ll have noticed that we’ve made a few changes. (And if you haven’t checked it out yet, please do so as soon as you’ve finished reading this blog post!) Your inbox is now nicer to look at, easier to use and far more intuitive.

Life at Sea

5 Ways to Beat Homesickness in Seafarer Jobs

Working in seafarer jobs comes with many pluses. The travel, seeing nature at its most awe-inspiring, and the friendships created when working in jobs at sea. But like any job, whether on land or sea, there can be the odd downside. And one of those, as some seafarers will tell you, is homesickness.

Martide

Martide: Maritime Recruitment & Finding Jobs at Sea Now Even Easier!

Whether you’re an employer using Martide for maritime recruitment to fill jobs at sea, or you’re a seaman looking for the latest seafarer jobs, our goal is to serve and support you every step of the way. Read on to discover our latest bug fixes, new creations, a cool upgrade and a GREAT new feature.

Life at Sea

Jobs at Sea and How to Deal with a Negative Crewmate

Jobs at sea are demanding. They take a certain person to cope with the physical aspect of the work. But being mentally strong as well as physically fit is crucial. So what do you do when someone on board’s behavior is sucking all the enjoyment and positivity out of your life on a container ship?

Knowledge Base

Exciting New Feature for Employers: Questionnaires

As a shipowner it’s hard to know what life is like for the seafarers who work for you. If only there was a way to get feedback from your crew. The good news is, there is. It’s called Questionnaires and we’ve created it in Martide for employers who want honest answers to their most pressing questions

Jobs & Careers

Things You Really Shouldn't Include on Your Seafarer Resume

Have you ever tried to write a seafarer resume and come unstuck as soon as you’ve written your name and address? Don’t worry you’re not alone. Writing a resume for any industry is hard. That’s why Martide has written a guide to things you really shouldn’t include on your CV for a shipping company.

Recruitment

How Crewing Software Can Increase Your Crew 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.

Jobs & Careers

4 Easy Steps to your Next Seafarer Job Vacancy

Whatever stage you’re at in your search for seafarer jobs did you know that thanks to Martide you’re only 4 steps away from your next contract? And that’s all thanks to our easy to create seafarer profile and seafarer job vacancy board. Read on to find out how to create an online seafarer resume.

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