MASTERLINE MARINE™
Masterline Marine is a psychological assessment method especially developed for the maritime industry. Shipowners and manning companies can subscribe to and be trained in the use of Masterline Marine to increase their accuracy and precision in recruitment.
Masterline Marine consists of forms, instruction folders and a computer program for processing.
Masterline Marine is today used in both East and West for selection and promotion of both shore and shipboard personnel.
Masterline Marine is culturally independent (unbiased) and is presently available in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English and Chinese. Versions in other languages can readily be produced whenever there is a need.
Masterline Marine Improves Safety
Through Masterline Marine, one gains deeper knowledge of an applicant’s life style, values and other important personal characteristics. Individual qualities such as intellectual capacity, intellectual structure, readiness for involvement, motivation, coping potential, attitudes, ambitions, team orientation and leadership style are evaluated.Masterline Marine uncovers all the basic mental steps involved from perception to action, i.e. the fundamental process necessary for understanding human behaviour irrespective of situational and cultural context.
Masterline Marine is based on modern psychological know-how and is especially standardized for positions and personnel categories within the maritime industry. When recruiting for senior positions onboard, Masterline Marine should preferably be supplemented with additional testing (e.g. Defense Mechanism Test, DMT) to also cover human factor aspects.
Administering Masterline Marine
Masterline Marine is easy to administer. All materials, i.e. forms and written instructions, are collected in a special Masterline Marine folder which is given to the applicants. The applicants work individually at their own pace with the self-instructive material. Normally it takes about an hour to complete the test.On the forms, the applicants give their personal views on three specific topics. These topics are wide in scope and especially designed to necessitate a personal approach and to reveal individual characteristics and differences.
After writing down personal aspects on the three topics, the applicants are instructed step by step to decide on, classify, evaluate and add further information to their responses.
Processing the Masterline Marine Forms
After completion, the forms are returned for processing by the Masterline Marine computer software for Windows. The typing and processing take less than five minutes.The software presents, on screen and in print, a comprehensive and clear base for interpretation and for assessment of applicants as well as material for fact-finding interviews.
The Masterline Marine User.
All assessment tools ultimately depend on the user and his or her interest and aptitude. No method, irrespective of its qualities, can make up for inadequate training. As a user of Masterline Marine your competence in assessing will continuously increase. You also have constant access to qualified back-up and support at Marine Profile.The Training
The basic training course covers three days and is conducted by maritime psychologists from Marine Profile. The course, which is individually adapted, is intended for up to five participants at a time and can be designed for subscribing company’s in-house training when applicable. The training focuses on both the theoretical and the practical aspects of Masterline Marine, as well as upon psychology and the art of interviewing and psychological assessment.The Subscription
The subscription runs on a yearly basis and includes training for one user as well as all material needed such as forms, instructions, computer software and manuals. The subscription also includes professional support and assistance, all future development, training seminars, newsletters and courses.A Growing Data Base.
In order to continuously update our norms and refine Masterline Marine we have a growing data base where all assessments are compiled anonymously. The data base gives us further and more advanced knowledge about matching position with personality and we convey our ever-increasing experience to subscribers as our base grows.MasterMap™
Masterline Marine subscribers are also offered MasterMap, a related method especially developed for appraising groups, crews or entire organizations. MasterMap is widely used for team-building, team assessment and for studies of attitudes or group processes.MasterMap is derived from Masterline Marine and is consequently easily learned and mastered by Masterline Marine subscribers. Details regarding information gained by Masterline Marine are also applicable, on a group level, for MasterMap.