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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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By: Eve Church

Talent pools are a bit of a recruitment buzzword. People love talking about them, about how to deepen their pool and how to go about creating one. Put simply, the deeper your talent pool is (the more candidates it has in it) the quicker it will be for you to find the right person for your vacancy.

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By: Eve Church

Are you posting adverts for maritime jobs but not attracting the number of applicants you expected? A shortage of candidates is a headache for shipowners and manning agents. You know seafarers are out there but why aren’t they biting your arm off for a chance to work for your company?!

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By: Eve Church

Smartphones, apps and being able to do virtually everything while we’re on the move are, quite simply, a way of life nowadays. And that also means that today’s job seeker expects to be able to find their next job or contract on their mobile device too.

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By: Eve Church

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

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By: Eve Church

The water-based or offshore cousin to a fire engine or fire truck, the fireboat is a vessel that has onboard equipment, such as nozzles, hoses and pumps, that are used to fight and extinguish fires both on other ships, as well as along the coastline, on docks and in ports and warehouses.

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By: Eve Church

The first thing to do when weighing up any kind of business decision is to create a list of pros and cons so that you can see, almost at a glance, if the solution or product you are considering really will work for you.

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By: Eve Church

A dredger is a boat equipped with a tool that sucks, excavates or scrapes sediment like sand, silt, gravel, trash, rocks, debris and animal and plant matter from the sea bed or a river, estuary or canal. The materials moved are placed elsewhere or disposed of in an act known as dredging.

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By: Eve Church

A car carrier or car carrier ship is a vessel that’s been designed for the transportation of either just cars, or a combination of cars, trucks, buses and other wheeled vehicles. Car carriers are a type of RoRo ships - which means Roll-On, Roll-Off, as this is how their cargo is loaded and unloaded.

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By: Eve Church

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

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By: Eve Church