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This week, Sandra Welch, Deputy CEO and Head of Programme at maritime welfare charity Sailors’ Society shares her her top 10 ways to look after your health at sea:

“How are you?” It’s a question we ask our friends and colleagues daily, that seems simple enough to answer. And yet, if we think about it more deeply, we realise it is surprisingly complex.

Being well is more than just being fit to work.

Life at sea can be incredibly...

Last week, we looked at creating a development plan and the benefits it can have for keeping on track with your studies and achieving your long-term goals. However, long-term goals can seem overwhelming. How will I get there and how do I track my progress? SMART goals are an effective way of breaking down your long-term goals into manageable chunks and can help you take the right steps toward achieving them.

There is a wealth of information...

Personal and professional development are key to career success, particularly if you work at sea. Most of us, however, don’t have a formal plan for our development preferring instead to make it up as we go along. It’s easy to lose sight of your long-term goals when you’re caught up in day to day work but writing and executing a personal development plan is a straightforward way of keeping your long term goals front and centre and...

No matter what job you’re in, you will have to write something at some point. There’s no avoiding it, even in the world of spell checkers and auto-correct good grammar still matters to employers. This is especially true at sea, in a safety critical industry, it’s even more important to be 100% accurate when writing. A missed comma here or full stop there can totally change the meaning of a sentence. But who has the time to learn the...

Everyone learns in different ways, with different strengths and weaknesses. This variety means that some people have difficulty learning and working in conventional ways; officially this is referred to as having a Specific Learning Difficulty. You may have a Specific Learning Difficulty without even realising and there is a huge amount of support available to anyone who has been diagnosed. We’ve compiled some information on the four most...