All Things Martide

Blog posts about all things Martide related including updates to our maritime recruitment and crew management system software and seafarer mobile job app.

Your Guide to Creating a Seafarer Resume Online

Your Guide to Creating a Seafarer Resume Online

We make it easy for anyone looking for seafarer jobs to apply for vacancies. Create an online seafarer resume with a Martide User Profile and once you’ve filled in your information, that’s the one and only time you’ll ever have to do it. Here’s how to get started.

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Martide Welcomes Arriva Shipping

Martide Welcomes Arriva Shipping

Martide are delighted to announce we are working with Arriva Shipping AS and Arriva Shipping Polska. Arriva were looking for a more efficient way to find and track job applicants and Martide’s efficient end-to-end hiring platform fulfilled their needs.

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Martide's December 2020 & January 2021 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's December 2020 & January 2021 Updates & Upgrades

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.

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The Unexpected Way You Can Grow Your Candidate Database

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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Martide's April 2020 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's April 2020 Updates & Upgrades

It’s time for Martide’s monthly update of everything that our hard working Development Team has been fixing and designing in April. This month we have some exciting news for employers as we’ve just launched a brand new feature that’s going to help simplify and streamline your crew change procedures.

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How to Build a Resume for a Seaman with Martide

How to Build a Resume for a Seaman with Martide

We all have plenty of those annoying little tasks to do that fall under the umbrella of ‘life admin’ and if you’ve ever looked for a seafarers job you’ll probably agree that writing a resume for a seaman is one of them! That’s why building your maritime resume online with Martide is the way forward.

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How to Simplify Seafarer Planning with a Crewing System

How to Simplify Seafarer Planning with a Crewing System

If you’re a shipowner or manager, you know that ship crew management and planning are a cause of headaches. That’s why we’ve built a feature that takes the stress out of managing and scheduling crew by giving you the ability to see exactly who’s on your vessels and who’s lined up to sign on and off.

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Martide's March 2020 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's March 2020 Updates & Upgrades

It’s time for our monthly roundup of everything that Martide’s Development Team has been doing behind the scenes over the past few weeks. And we’re delighted to announce that some great new features have just been launched.

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Martide News & Updates, March 2022

Martide News & Updates, March 2022

If you’re a regular (or even semi-regular) reader of our employer blog posts, you probably know that every so often we like to keep you updated with the latest changes, launches, tweaks and - yes, we admit it - fixes we’ve made to the Martide platform.

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Creating a Company Profile

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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A Guide to Creating Maritime Job Vacancies on Martide

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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How to Keep Track of the Seafarer Jobs You've Applied For

How to Keep Track of the Seafarer Jobs You've Applied For

At Martide we make it easier to apply for seafarer jobs through our maritime jobs board. If you’re a seafarer looking for jobs at sea who’s applied for a vacancy with us you need to know how you can keep track of your applications. That’s where the handy My Jobs feature comes in.

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This Martide Feature Helps You Grow Your Candidate Database

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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How to Make Crew Change Overs Easier Than Ever Before

How to Make Crew Change Overs Easier Than Ever Before

At Martide we know that as crew change dates creep closer, filling some positions can be a source of stress. Not only that but there are so many different components that make up every crew change that simplifying your process is virtually a must. That’s why we created the Crew Change feature.

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How to Find Seafarer Jobs with Martide's Mobile App

How to Find Seafarer Jobs with Martide's Mobile App

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

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Come and Hang Out with Martide on Social Media!

Come and Hang Out with Martide on Social Media!

Martide are on social media. Why not come on over and say hello, like and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn? We post blogs, tips and tricks, seafarer quotes, news and points of interest in the maritime industry - and of course our latest seafarer jobs!

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Martide's May & June 2020 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's May & June 2020 Updates & Upgrades

Normally this blog post showcases what our developers have been working on but this month practically everyone at Martide has been involved. That’s because not only do we have the usual bug fixes and new features to tell you about but we’re also starting to unveil a brand new look for our website.

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Martide's August 2019 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's August 2019 Updates & Upgrades

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.

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Martide's End of 2019 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's End of 2019 Updates & Upgrades

If you’ve been wondering what the Martide Development Team got up to at the end of last year, wonder no more. Here’s a rundown of just some of the great new features they built, fixed, tweaked or added to the platform during October and November.

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Maritime Recruitment Headaches? Let Martide Help!

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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Martide’s 20 Most-Read Blog Posts of 2019

Martide’s 20 Most-Read Blog Posts 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.

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Martide's Top Seafarer Blog Posts of 2020

Martide's Top Seafarer Blog Posts of 2020

We thought we’d take a look at which of our seafarer blog posts were most popular in 2020. So from seafarer interview questions and answers to seaman quotes and from seafarer resume advice to guides to different types of seafarer jobs, let’s run down Martide’s very own end of year top ten list.

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How to Add Vessels to Martide's Maritime Recruitment Platform

How to Add Vessels to Martide's Maritime Recruitment Platform

As a shipowner your fleet is at the heart of everything. Martide make it easy to manage vessel data by storing it all in one place. Our crew management platform also takes the hassle out of managing crew numbers and budgets. What’s not to love? Here’s how to get the most out of your Fleet Page.

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7 Reasons Why You Should Look For Seafarer Jobs Online

7 Reasons Why You Should Look For Seafarer Jobs Online

If you usually try traditional ways to find seafarer jobs we’re going to ask you to take a leap of faith and try the online way of looking for jobs at sea. Bear with us while we explain why looking for seamen jobs online is the way to go. In fact we’ve 7 reasons why you should look for jobs online!

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3 Steps to Getting Started with Martide for Manning Agents

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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5 Things to Do Once You've Created a Martide Account

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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Career Opportunities with Arriva Shipping & Martide

Career Opportunities with Arriva Shipping & 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.

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Manning Agent Guide to Martide's Applicant Tracking System

Manning Agent Guide to Martide's Applicant Tracking System

As a manning agent you need to track your candidates’ statuses. Martide make that simple for you! We know you’ve lots of hopeful applicants to keep tabs on and you need to support shipowners and seafarers in a timely fashion. Here we tell you how to do that using our maritime recruitment platform.

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to the Martide Message Inbox

Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to the Martide Message 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.

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New Year, New Martide Updates

New Year, New Martide Updates

We wanted to let you know about what we’ve been working on over the last few weeks - there are some really interesting and useful changes for both employers and manning agents so we hope you find them handy.

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Start Delegating with Martide's User Accounts Function!

Start Delegating with Martide's User Accounts Function!

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

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What Do Your Seafarers REALLY Think About You?

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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Make Seafarer Sourcing Plain Sailing with Martide

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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How to Find Your Next Seafarer Job with Martide

How to Find Your Next Seafarer Job with Martide

If you’re looking for seafarer jobs, we’re pleased to say that you’ve come to the right place! At Martide we have a quality selection of different types of maritime jobs ready and waiting for qualified seamen to apply to. In this blog post we’re going to look at how to find your next cargo ship job.

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Martide News & Updates for Seafarers, June 2021

Martide News & Updates for Seafarers, June 2021

For this week’s blog post we wanted to give you an update on some of the improvements and changes we’ve been working on behind the scenes to help make Martide an even better place to find seafarer jobs. So from your new user profile to advice on how to build your seafarer resume, let’s take a look.

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Martide's July 2019 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's July 2019 Updates & Upgrades

t’s time for Martide’s end of the month check in to let you know what our developers have been working on for our crew management and maritime recruitment platform this month. We’ve a shortish changelog for you this time but we think these are a couple of really useful functions all the same.

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Martide's June 2019 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's June 2019 Updates & Upgrades

June has been another busy few weeks for Martide’s Development Team. This month we’ve got some updates for shipowners and manning agents, as well as a site-wide change. Let’s find out what the Dev guys have been up to this month!

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What is Document Management & Why Should You Care?

What is Document Management & Why Should You Care?

You don’t need us to tell you how much documentation is involved in the world of maritime recruitment and crew planning. So wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to get all that paperwork under control, while also taking the stress out of looking for a specific certificate or particular contract?

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Martide's May 2019 Updates & Upgrades

Martide's May 2019 Updates & Upgrades

We’ve had a busy month here at Martide. Although for the purposes of this post, when we say ‘we’ - we really mean our developers and tech team! Here’s a rundown of what they created, fixed and tweaked for you last month.

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Using Alternative Documents

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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Martide's Most Popular Seafarer Blog Posts of 2022

Martide's Most Popular Seafarer Blog Posts of 2022

At the end of the year we like to take a nostalgic look backwards and see what the most read blog posts on our seafarer blog were. The main reason we like to do this is because it helps us to see what topics you’re interested in as a reader so that we can deliver similar blog posts in the future.

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Maritime Recruitment & Crewing System Summer Summary

Maritime Recruitment & Crewing System Summer Summary

Over the summer our developers have been working on lots of changes, upgrades and new features for Martide’s maritime recruitment and crewing system software solution. So we thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at what’s been happening now that summer is drawing to a close.

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Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Martide's Clients Function

Shipowner & Crew Manager Guide to Martide's Clients Function

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

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Martide's Top Employer Blog Posts of 2020

Martide's Top Employer Blog Posts of 2020

We thought we’d take a look at which of our employer blog posts were most popular in 2020. So from maritime technology to crew management software solutions and from maritime recruitment to seaman quotes to attracting top talent, let’s run down Martide’s very own end of year top ten list.

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Simplify Maritime Recruitment with Martide Message Templates

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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Introducing Martide's Transfer Assignments Feature

Introducing Martide's Transfer Assignments Feature

Recently we added a new feature within Assignments to make life even easier for you as someone who works in maritime recruitment or crew planning. It’s called Assignment Transfers and it lets you transfer certain Pipeline Stages from one Assignment to another.

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4 Easy Steps to your Next Seafarer Job Vacancy

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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How Martide's App Helps Solve Maritime Recruitment Challenges

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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Seafarer's Guide to Your Martide Message Inbox

Seafarer's Guide to Your Martide Message Inbox

If you’ve applied for seafarer jobs through Martide, employers and manning agents can communicate with you about your applications through our messaging feature. When you create an account with Martide you’ll be given your own private inbox - here's how to get the most from it.

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

There's no long blog post this week - just a heartfelt greeting to wish all of our employers and manning agents a very happy and prosperous new year and all the very best for 2022.

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Merry Christmas from Martide

Merry Christmas from Martide

This year has also had its challenges but we have been truly thankful for all of your efforts and courage over the past twelve months, and we hope for more positive and brighter things for all in 2022.

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Martide's Most Popular Seafarer Blog Posts of 2021

Martide's Most Popular Seafarer Blog Posts of 2021

e’re not going to focus on the bad points of the past twelve months, but instead We’re going to look back and see which of the many (52 if you’re wondering!) Seafarer Blog posts we wrote over the last year were the most popular. Here's our top ten countdown.

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Martide's Fall Updates & Upgrades

Martide's Fall Updates & Upgrades

October is almost over and as we enter winter it’s time for our monthly round up of everything our Engineering Team has been working on at Martide over the last few weeks. As usual they’ve been busy creating new features and tweaking existing ones to make your life even easier.

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Why Manning Agents Should Join Our Approved Partner Network

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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