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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.

Business Development

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.

Business Development

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.

Business Development

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.

Business Development

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.

Business Development

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.

Business Development
February 16, 2022

A Shoal-ly Awesome Start to February!

We’re halfway through February already, where has the time gone? Discover what the shoal has been up to so far.

Culture
February 2, 2022

A Fin-tastic Start to 2022!

We’ve had a fin-tastic January at Firefish, discover what our teams have been up to!

Culture
December 20, 2021

Fishmas Hero Awards 2021

This year we celebrated our first ever Fishmas Hero Awards and we're over the moon at just how many nominations we had!

Culture
December 16, 2021

Firefish Crowns Fish of the Year and Celebrates Fishmas 2021

We wish it could be Fishmas everyday! See what we got up to at our Christmas party this year.

October 15, 2021

Focus Day and Birthday Extravaganza

It's time for another bi-annual Focus Day. Here's what we got up to for our second Focus Day of 2021.

Culture
October 6, 2021

Firefish Celebrates National Inclusion Week

We came together with other Inclusive Employers to champion inclusivity in the workplace, here's what we got up to.

Culture
September 9, 2021

Team Collaboration at the Hub

This month the Hub has been a vibrant and busy place. Teams came together to collaborate, socialise and take a break from WFH.

Culture
June 16, 2021

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: What it means to ‘belong’ at Firefish

What does 'belonging' mean to the Firefish shoal? Our Fish created an awesome video to share their experiences.

Culture
August 4, 2021

Firefish Fest 2021

We knew our first Summer Social since lockdown had to be a special one for our Fish! So we held our first ever Firefish Fest...

Culture
April 27, 2016

Swimming to Edinburgh for Tru

As proud Glaswegians, we know all about the ribbing our city gives Edinburgh and vice versa. Banter aside, we never shy away from a tri...

Event
March 25, 2016

It's Turning Into RecruitmentMania

Remember when you were a wee kid and you'd be so excited for the end of March because it was WrestleMania season? Just us? Who are we k...

Event
March 7, 2016

The Future of Recruitment is Upon Us

Cast your mind back to last month (c'mon, February was a short month so it's easy) when we announced the first ever predictive recruitm...

Event
March 4, 2016

Shortlisted for the Recruiter Awards...who, us?

It was a Wednesday afternoon like any other, oohing and aahing at the latest tech news online and hoovering the last of the Haribo Star...

Event
February 17, 2016

One TEAM, One Excellent Conference

Cards on the table, the Firefish family don’t exactly fit the traditional ‘conference mould’. You see, we know they can be a bit boring...

Event
February 8, 2016

Recruitment Events Springing Into Summer

Summer is coming! Okay, that may be a tad optimistic to proclaim on February 8th but there's no denying the nights are getting longer (...

Event
February 5, 2016

Savage Truth in Scotland for Predictive Recruitment Event

Have we been a bit cheeky and kept a secret? Sorry, we put up our fins and admit it- we have! But you’re going to absolutely love the n...

Event
November 27, 2015

Oh What a Night!

If there’s a time of year the Firefish team love more than the holidays, it’s got to be awards season. It’s a great opportunity for us ...

Event
November 6, 2015

The Fish Loves Winners

Remember when you were wee and your Mum/Dad/Granny/Grandad/ whoever you most wanted to impress would say "it's not the winning, it's th...

Event
November 7, 2023

Firefish Software Investment Update

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

Product
October 26, 2023

Firefish Updates August & September 2023

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

Product
August 16, 2023

Firefish Updates July 2023

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

Product
July 19, 2023

Firefish Updates June 2023

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

Product
June 9, 2023

Firefish Updates May 2023

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

Product
May 16, 2023

Firefish Updates April 2023

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

Product
March 21, 2023

Firefish Updates February 2023

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

Product
March 17, 2023

Chrome Extension for LinkedIn 

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

Product
February 7, 2023

Firefish Updates January 2023

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

Product

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