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View From The Desk – March 2025
Maritime Recruitment on a high? If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. Two months completed in 2025 and SYR are reaching new highs. We’ve ended February 25% up on last year, a start which in itself was the best in our company history and isn’t showing signs...
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Ed’s Solent Swim Fundraiser
Ed is raising money for West Wight Sports & Community Centre Trust Limited Solent Swim 2025 Not content with the Ultra Marathon that I attempted in 2024, this year I’m swimming the width of The Solent in aid of the West Wight Sport & Community Centre. Each year I choose a sporting...
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The Essential Guide to a Powerful LinkedIn Profile
Not sure if your LinkedIn profile is up to scratch? We’ve put together a little guide to ensure you get the best from the world’s largest professional networking platform! Choose a Professional Profile Photo – Use a high-quality, recent headshot. – Dress professionally and...
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View From The Desk – January 2025
Maritime Recruitment 2025 If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. Happy New Year and welcome back to the crazy world we call maritime. We hope that you enjoyed the extended break with friends and family and return refreshed and ready to take on the world and...
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The SYR guide to preparing yourself for job searching in 2025
Jobseeking can be a minefield and for some of us it’s a challenge to even work out where to start, so we wanted to create a 2025 jobseekers’ guide to help you on your way in securing a new role. First up and pretty obvious…it’s time to dust off and update the CV. You’d be...
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View From The Desk – December 2024
All I want for Christmas is a shiny new job! If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. Christmas is almost upon us, and I think the industry is collectively breathing a sigh of relief after a busy yet challenging year. With two major elections and continued unrest...
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View From The Desk – November 2024
2024 Coming To An End At Pace! If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. We are into the final two months of the calendar year here at SYR and the industry seems to be back at its usual pace. The team are enjoying an active client base with a hunger to appoint new...
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Meet Ed at METSTRADE 2024
November brings our final international event of the year, METSTRADE. I’ll be attending the world’s largest marine equipment show along with attending a number of satellite events and visiting a number of our Dutch clients. I’m still available during the course of the event for...
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View From The Desk – October 2024
SYR just got a little bit bigger! If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. Q4 is here and with it, our busiest quarter of the year. Fresh from the 2024 Monaco Yacht Show we’re hard at work following up a host of exciting leads from across our existing customer...
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MYS 2024 Show Report
Now the dust has settled, it’s time for us to reflect on the biggest show of the SYR calendar. Monaco Yacht Show 2024 was our third as a business and continues to surprise us with a totally different experience each year! This year….RAIN?!?! However, despite its best attempts, it didn’t...
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View From The Desk – September 2024
Who’s ready for a yacht show? If you would like to receive this update as a monthly email register here. It’s September already and this means only one thing, European yacht shows! By the time you read this we’ll be concluding the Cannes Yachting Festival and be a week out from the...
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Jason Robertson in the SYR Hotseat
We’re really pleased to welcome our new sponsors MIMO Connect and so to introduce them, our CEO Ed sat down with the brains behind MIMO Connect, Jason Robertson, to find out more about the authority in all things superyacht communications. Jason, welcome to the SYR hotseat. Thank you very much...