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Shipping Crew Management software for recruitment & staff retention

Hiring and retaining staff is one of the huge hurdles facing the industry. Hiring knowledgeable and skilled officers are essential, but retaining them is even more important. Let’s have a look at some of the reasons why. The younger generation doesn’t consider a career in the sector appealing, making it harder for managers to recruit good people. Managers do pay a lot of attention or are keener to provide better travel experiences as part of staff retention. The crew needs to be supported, and they might want to see progress in their future career and industry. Poor Hr practices like evading, and lack of training programs for seafarers, poor recruitment practices, not effectively managing their expectations and issues, unfavourable employable contracts, aggravate the retention problems. How can we reduce these problems by half? Adopting technology in Administrative Processes The world is undergoing a massive revolution termed as Industrial Revolution 4.0 or ‘ the ongoing automation of ...

Crew Management Software: Solving challenges in maritime operations with ease

In the shipping industry, the crew manager faces demanding and sensitive challenges on a day to day basis, which should be handled with care to ensure the smooth and proper running of the ship. They need to be constantly vigilant, monitoring, and paying close attention to the key areas such as seafarers’ travel itinerary, well-being, costs, and recruitment. These tasks are made effortless and smoother for the crew managers with the assistance of the latest Maritime crew management software . Here are some of the challenges they face.  Budgetary Control   A crew manager’s primary task is to keep the budget under control while managing the expenses efficiently. A well-planned crew rotation and travel itinerary will save time and costs. When unforeseen changes happen in a seafarer’s schedule, the crew manager should deal with it systematically, to reduce the impact on deadlines and timings and be safe from grave budget and planning consequences.  There should b...