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If you’re a seaman or woman who uses Martide to search for the latest seafarer jobs using our website or app, our goal is to make life as easy as possible for you. Here’s how to contact us should you need support.

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By: Eve Church

As a seafarer a huge part of ensuring time onboard isn’t damaging your mental health is making the most of the camaraderie that comes with spending so much time with a small group of people. Having time alone to catch up with loved ones via social media is crucial, but so too is community spirit.

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By: Eve Church

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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By: Eve Church

Good news - the vacancies for your jobs at sea that you’ve advertised have attracted some applications and it’s time to create a shortlist of candidates. Now you’ll need to send each of them a short email updating them on the status of their application.

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By: Eve Church

In our series of articles which take a look at the various professions in the merchant navy we aim to answer the question: what is a seafarers job? If you’ve read any of the other posts in this series, you’ll know that that’s a tricky question to answer! In this post we’re looking at Pumpman jobs.

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By: Eve Church

In maritime recruitment you need your team to be as efficient as possible. Our 11 tips (and our crewing system!) help boost collaboration.

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By: Eve Church

Autonomous ships and smart ships are buzzwords that have been doing the rounds in the maritime industry recently. And it’s not surprising that many have expressed concern for the future of seafarer jobs. But the rise of self sailing ships doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the mariner. Here’s why.

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By: Eve Church

Are you a small to medium sized shipowner or manager who has made a new year’s resolution to streamline your maritime recruitment and crew operations in 2021 by implementing a Software as a Service (SaaS)? If so, that could be great news for the both of us! Allow us to walk you through the benefits.

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By: Eve Church

At Martide we love seafarer quotes so we’ve been searching for more to bring you! We’ve already covered our favorite seafarer quotes about the sea and previously listed 10 of our favorite seaman quotes about sailing so for this blog post we thought we’d see if there were any quotes about anchors.

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By: Eve Church

Sourcing candidates for your vacant jobs at sea by email can be broken down into cold candidate outreach and referred outreach. This step-by-step guide looks at how to write maritime recruitment email templates for both methods to make your life less stressful and your time to hire shorter!

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By: Eve Church