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These Are the Best Recruitment Markets to Target in 2024

Discover the most profitable markets for recruitment agencies to target in 2024, backed by data insights and accelerated growth strategies.

Tips on Reaching Out to Lost Clients

Discover the best recruiter strategies for reaching out to, reconnecting and re-engaging with lost clients to recruitment agency accelerate growth.

Avoiding The Most Common Client Meetings Mistakes

Most recruiters have made client meeting mistakes at some point. Discover the top client meeting mistakes and how your recruiters can avoid them.

Expert Tips to Elevate Your Business Development

Elevate your business development strategy with 5 tips tailored specifically for recruiters looking to grow their client list with ease.

5 Unproductive Business Development Strategies

Time is money and business development can be time-consuming when done wrong. Discover how the top recruiters execute their business development strategy.

How to Perfect Your Sales Technique

Brad Shackleton talks us through the basics of improving your new business pitch to put your recruitment agency at the forefront of discussion.

We Think You’re June an Update!

This month at Firefish, we had a Pride Event, got new End of Month Winners to announce and new Fish to introduce!

Welcome to the Shoal, Peter!

We’d like to introduce Pete McMorrow, our new Associate Director of Customer!

What an A-May-zing month!

May has flown by and we've got some Firefish news to share! Our End of Month winners have been announced and new fish have joined the Shoal.

May I Tell You What We've Been Up To?

April was a Fin-tastic month for the Shoal with new Fish added, plenty of promotions and some well deserving end of month winners!

April You Glad To See Us?

April brings Focus Day for the fish and this year we upped our game and took part in some Fin-omenal fundraising too!

s1 Recruitment Awards 2022

We are delighted to announce that on Thursday the 14 April 2022 the s1 awards returned for it’s first in-person since 2019!

March Madness Round Up!

The Shoal’s been cracking on this month, with new Fishes, puppy photos and our End of Month Winners!

Our Shoal is March-ing On!

It’s been a busy start to March for everyone at Firefish; learn more about what we've been up to!Did Someone Say Food?

February at Firefish!

It’s been a busy month here at Firefish; with a shoal full of friendly competition, food and as always, our end of month awards!

August Newssplash

Check out what the shoal have been up to in August, from fin-tastic monthly winners, doggy-days in the park and more!

Cheeky Tiki Time!

The weather recently hasn’t felt like summer, so we’ve turned up the heat and excitement at our "Cheeky Tiki" Summer Social!

Firefish Announces £4M Strategic Investment

We are thrilled to announce a £4m strategic investment, led by the Foresight Group, signalling a new chapter in Firefish's growth.

Firefish Software at the Agency Expo 2022

Team Firefish were back at the Recruitment Agency Expo in Birmingham on October 5th-6th, making a splash with a brand new stand!

Firefish in List of Top Scottish Employment Companies

We are delighted to announce that Firefish Software has ranked in Best Startup Scotland’s list of the Top Employment companies in Scotland!

Northern Tech Awards 2022

We are proud to announce that once again Firefish has made the top 100 Fastest Growing Northern Tech Companies.

Firefish shortlisted for TWO Talent Tech Awards!

Firefish Software and our CEO Wendy McDougall are up for two awards at the TIARA Talent Tech Star awards, this year.

Entrepreneur of the Year

The EY Awards celebrate ‘unstoppable entrepreneurs’ from across the United Kingdom and Ireland.

April You Glad To See Us?

April brings Focus Day for the fish and this year we upped our game and took part in some Fin-omenal fundraising too!

Firefish Software Investment Update

Six months on from the £4 million strategic investment by the Foresight Group, Firefish CEO, Wendy McDougall, shares an update.

Firefish Updates August & September 2023

At Firefish Software we are continually improving and evolving our Recruitment CRM, discover the releases.

Firefish Updates July 2023

At Firefish Software we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment CRM, discover the new releases.

Firefish Updates June 2023

At Firefish Software we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment CRM, discover the new releases.

Firefish Updates May 2023

At Firefish Software we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment CRM, discover the new releases.

Firefish Updates April 2023

At Firefish we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment software, discover what we released in April

Firefish Updates February 2023

At Firefish we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment software, discover what we released in February

Chrome Extension for LinkedIn 

Transform social sourcing processes by empowering recruiters to capture and update both candidate and client records in their CRM, directly

Firefish Updates January 2023

At Firefish we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment software, discover what we released in January 2023.

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