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2025 Spinnaker Maritime People & Culture conference – agenda finalised

Mar 26, 2025
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The agenda for the 2025 Spinnaker has been finalised with informative sessions and speakers agreed for the 2 –day event taking place on the 14 & 15 May in London. The event will take place at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City within the famous London Wall and touching distance of the iconic Tower Bridge….

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From the Royal Navy to Higher Education: The Real Value of Continuous Professional Development

Apr 30, 2025
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MLA College is an innovative Higher Education provider focused on empowering mid-career professionals. Whether you’re aiming to step into senior leadership or make a bold shift into a new sector, MLA offers flexible, professionally-aligned programmes designed to support real-life career transitions. We understand the value of lifelong learning because it’s part of who we are…

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Hot Jobs – Top 10 maritime vacancies – April 2025

Apr 29, 2025
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For over 25 years, Spinnaker has been assisting shipowners, shipmanagers, oil majors, and P&I clubs in fulfilling their recruitment requirements. Every day, we receive a constant influx of new job openings, all conveniently listed on our website. To simplify your job search, we have handpicked a collection of the ten most sought-after positions available right…

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From Bricks to Smartphones: Our First Phone Flashbacks

Apr 24, 2025
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National Phone day is the 25th April, and we thought we would have a little bit of fun and take a look back at everyone’s first phone! Daryna Rozum Reward Consultant This one was mine, pretty but useless, didn’t even have Bluetooth! (Had an infrared port instead) I remember it having this silly game when…

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The Gender Issue in Maritime

Apr 7, 2025
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It seems there are two sides to DEI currently. Companies who are scaling back their DEI policies, such as Meta, Amazon and Target, while on the flip side the EU recently introduced EU Pay Transparency Directive. Companies with over 250 employees in the UK have had to publish their gender pay gap since 2017. The…

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CEO Burnout in the Maritime Sector: Is It All Becoming Too Much?

Apr 3, 2025
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A recent article in HR Magazine revealed that 75% of CEOs feel overworked and burned out (HR Magazine). This raises an important question: is the maritime sector experiencing the same crisis in leadership wellbeing? The Unique Pressures of Maritime Leadership The shipping industry presents distinct challenges that add to the pressures of leadership. Managing a…

Recruitment

Hot Jobs – Top 10 maritime vacancies – March 2025

Mar 26, 2025
Reading Time: 4 mins

For over 25 years, Spinnaker has been assisting shipowners, shipmanagers, oil majors, and P&I clubs in fulfilling their recruitment requirements. Every day, we receive a constant influx of new job openings, all conveniently listed on our website. To simplify your job search, we have handpicked a collection of the ten most sought-after positions available right…

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Why you don’t have time NOT to mentor

Mar 25, 2025
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In an increasingly busy world, it is all too easy to focus on duties, to-do lists and targets at the expense of nurturing human connections. Yet, so often, it is the support of our colleagues and people around us that ensures we get the job done. None of us can work in a vacuum, especially…

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2025 Spinnaker Maritime People & Culture conference – agenda finalised

From the Royal Navy to Higher Education: The Real Value of Continuous Professional Development

Hot Jobs – Top 10 maritime vacancies – April 2025

From Bricks to Smartphones: Our First Phone Flashbacks

The Gender Issue in Maritime

CEO Burnout in the Maritime Sector: Is It All Becoming Too Much?

Hot Jobs – Top 10 maritime vacancies – March 2025

Why you don’t have time NOT to mentor

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