Crewtoo®, the world's largest online network dedicated to
seafarers, has launched an online maritime jobs board as a direct
response to requests from its members, who have continuously
pinpointed recruitment as one of their main priorities. Crewtoo,
which has more than 100,000 members and was founded by KVH Media
Group, part of KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq:KVHI), premiered the
service yesterday in Stamford, Connecticut, at Shipping 2014, the
annual shipping conference and exhibition of the Connecticut
Maritime Association.
The Crewtoo jobs board is integrated into the Crewtoo site and
enables seafarers to simply change a setting on their profile to
state that they are available for work; they are then prompted to
fill in their full employment details on the site and upload their
current CV/resumé. For the seafarer, membership to the popular
social network remains free of charge and, even before the jobs
board launch, thousands of seafarers had already taken the
opportunity to complete their jobs profile.
"We believe that Crewtoo gives us the perfect platform to help
seafarers and maritime recruiters alike," says Mark Woodhead,
managing director of KVH Media Group. "Seafarers are afraid of
being taken advantage of and want to deal with a name they trust
while maritime recruiters want great value in an effective and
flexible service that will find them the best crew. From
traditional web advertising to social media promotion, we believe
we can match businesses with the right crew using web and social
technology."
Maritime recruiters using Crewtoo can choose from three
advertising packages: a single vacancy post, a monthly plan, or an
unlimited annual service that includes social media posts and a
featured company profile service.
Crewtoo members represent a wide range of nationalities, with
55% from Europe, 34% from Asia and the Middle East, 9% from Africa,
and the rest from North America, Latin America, and Australasia.
Likewise, the membership encompasses a broad range of ranks,
including masters, ordinary seamen, chief officers, chief
engineers, electrical engineers, deck cadets, engine cadets, and
cooks.
"It's a very exciting time for Crewtoo. We have put an
experienced maritime recruitment team together and we have already
received vacancies from recruiters who know the Crewtoo brand, even
before the site launched," says Woodhead. Crewtoo prides itself on
its relationship with seafarers and plans to continue growing the
social side of the site by adding new elements and services to it
throughout the year.
In addition to Crewtoo, KVH Media Group has a number of other
services aimed at improving crew welfare. NEWSlinkTM is a daily
news and information service customized for seafarers, with more
than 75 publications in 17 languages delivered by email to vessels
around the world. MOVIElinkTM, TVlinkTM, and TRAININGlinkTM provide
commercially licensed movies, television programs, and training
films for onboard viewing by seafarers, delivered in a range of
formats from hard-copy DVDs delivered directly to ship agents
anywhere in the world to fully digital services. SPORTSlinkTM
provides daily video clips of sporting events.
KVH provides maritime broadband connectivity to vessels
worldwide through its TracPhone® V-IP series terminals and
mini-VSAT Broadbandsm network. In addition, KVH is introducing
IP-MobileCastTM, a content delivery service that is designed to
enable MOVIElink, TVlink, SPORTSlink, TRAININGlink, NEWSlink, and
MUSIClinkTM commercially licensed entertainment content to be
delivered via multicasting technology to subscribing vessels, over
the top of the mini-VSAT Broadband network.
Note to Editors: For more information, visit the Crewtoo
recruitment site (www.crewtoo.com/recruitment). For more
information about KVH's many services and products for the maritime
industry, visit KVH Media Group (www.kvhmediagroup.com), and the
mini-VSAT Broadband website (www.minivsat.com/vip).
About KVH Industries, Inc.
KVH Industries is a leading provider of in-motion satellite TV
and communications systems, having designed, manufactured, and sold
more than 175,000 mobile satellite antennas for applications on
vessels, vehicles, and aircraft. KVH is also a leading news, music,
and entertainment content provider to many industries including
maritime, retail, and leisure. KVH is based in Middletown, RI,
U.S.A., with facilities in Illinois, Denmark, Norway, the U.K.,
Singapore, the Philippines, Cyprus, and Japan.
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include, for
example, statements regarding the timing and occurrence of KVH's
new service rollout plans, the functionality, characteristics,
quality, cost, and performance of KVH products and technology, as
well as customer demand, preferences, requirements, and
expectations. The actual results could differ materially from those
expressed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might
cause such differences include, among others: Potential
unanticipated technical or legal impediments that could delay or
impede new service rollout plans or expected strategic
relationships; access to sufficient and uninterrupted satellite
capacity to provide the service; unanticipated increases in media
costs or loss of distribution rights; risks associated with the
delivery or performance of critical hardware; uncertainty about the
scope of customer demand; and changes in the costs and capabilities
of competing offerings. These and other risk factors are discussed
in more detail in KVH's most recent Form 10-K filed with the SEC.
KVH does not assume any obligation to update its forward-looking
statements to reflect new information or developments. KVH,
Crewtoo, NEWSlink, MOVIElink, TVlink, TRAININGlink, SPORTSlink,
MUSIClink, TracPhone, and IP-MobileCast are trademarks of KVH
Industries, Inc. mini-VSAT Broadband is a service mark of KVH
Industries, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective companies.
CONTACT: Sue Henney
Marketing Manager
KVH Media Group
+44 151 236 4124
shenney@kvh.com
Jill Connors
Media & Communications Manager
KVH Industries, Inc.
+1 401-851-3824
jconnors@kvh.com
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