World Day for Safety & Health at Work: Supporting Seafarers
As World Day for Safety and Health at Work approaches, are you doing everything you can to support your seafarers? Read on to find out more.
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Maritime crew management systems and strategies for better seafarer and employee retention. Read our posts for tips on how to manage crew and stop them jumping ship!
Is Wi-Fi the Key to Seafarer Wellbeing?
Seafarers with internet access feel less isolated due to being able to engage with friends and family ashore. The downside is life at sea and relationships onboard are declining due to mariners preferring to spend their downtime with their devices instead of talking to their fellow crew.
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Why Asking for Feedback Can Boost Your Crew Retention Rates
From your youngest deck cadet to your most experienced ship’s master, everyone likes to feel they’re being listened to. And as an employer it’s your job to make sure that happens - especially if you want to boost your crew and employee retention rates.
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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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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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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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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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How to Simplify Seafarer Travel with Integrated Solutions
Want to know how integrated maritime crew management software can help your shipping company or manning agency streamline crew travel? Read this.
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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 to Organize & Store Your Seafarers' Travel Documents
Are you a Crew Manager needing an easier way to store your seafarers' travel documents? Learn about our maritime crew management software here.
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What Do Your Seafarers REALLY Think About You?
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 Forms and we’ve created it in Martide for employers who want honest answers to their most pressing questions
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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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6 Questions to Ask Your Seafarers to Increase Retention
Crew turnover is costly & can negatively effect your shipping company’s reputation. Here are 6 questions to ask seafarers to help make them stay.
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How Shipowners & Crew Managers Can Deal with Language Barriers
The nature of jobs at sea mean crew of all levels find themselves working alongside people who hail from different cultural backgrounds, and who speak a different language. How can seafarers overcome those language barriers?
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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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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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Seafarer Happiness & Life on a Cargo Ship
Life on a cargo ship is demanding and seafarer wellness must be a priority for all maritime industry leaders. Maintaining health and wellness for seafarers not only improves productivity and morale, but also makes it more likely crew members will re-join or be loyal to your shipping company.
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Why an Internet Connection is an Important Factor in Jobs at Sea
As anyone working in shore based maritime jobs knows, we take our ability to connect, send messages and emails, Google for info, make video calls, check our bank accounts and do all the other multitude of internet based jobs and admin for granted. For those working in jobs at sea - not so much.
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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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The Martide Guide to Navigating Crew Change Challenges
Find out here how to overcome the challenges you face as a Crew Manager or Manning Agent when it comes to crew changes for your seafarers.
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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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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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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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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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How to Look After Employee & Crew Mental Wellbeing
From high risk, physically demanding roles such as seafarer jobs to work that involves long hours at a desk and little rest from constant phone calls and emails, employees in the maritime industry can be vulnerable to mental health issues that are work-related.
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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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5 Tips for Clearer Communication in the Maritime Industry
Miscommunication caused by a lack of understanding or an inability to express an instruction or order can cause countless issues in any workplace. And in shipping, those miscommunications can have a more serious knock on effect than in many industries.
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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 Increase Seafarer Retention Rates with Recognition
An under-appreciated seafarer is a seafarer who's going to look for a different crew manager or manning agency at their current contract's end.
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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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7 News Year's Resolutions for Crew Managers & Manning Agents
As a Crew Manager or Recruitment Officer we know maritime recruitment & crew planning ops can be tough. So we’ve got 7 NY resolutions for you.
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Everything You Need to Know About Booking Seaman Flights
If you're new to crew management and crew planning and want to know about seaman flights / marine flights, our blog post has the answers and more!
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What is the Best Crew Management Software Solution?
If you want to know what the best crew management software is to help you run your maritime recruitment and crew planning operations more efficiently, you’ve come to the right place. In this post we’re going to take a look at the essential features of crewing systems that really work.
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