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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.

Firefish visits the Hub

Across the month of June we had the chance to spend some time with our teams at our shiny new office space in Glasgow here' how it went...

Firefish EURO 2021 quiz

As a company born and bred in Scotland we were a little bit excited about our country's first outing at the Euros in over 20 years...

Our Chief Fish named most innovative woman in Recruitment

This week, Recruiter Magazine named our Chief Fish Wendy one of the most innovative woman in recruitment. Here's why!

Biggest Growth Wave in Firefish History!

Back in 2020, we made a number of promotions across Firefish. We’re delighted to say that 2021 is showing no sign of slowing down.

Check out the new Firefish Hub!

We’ve spent a lot of time planning renovations to what we once called the Aquarium but has now transformed into our Hub!

Meet our new Fish

March was a magnificent month for Firefish, and we were especially delighted to add four more fin-omenal Fish to the shoal!

Fish of the Year 2020

Our Fishmas party wasn’t just about food and fun – we crowned our Fish of the Year 2020 too!

Promotions in a Pandemic

In a year where we all had to stop and refocus, these fish smashed it and as a result we’ve made a magnificent seven promotions!

Our Fish Sophie Moves to Hamburg

A global pandemic may spell disaster for some, but it signalled the start of an exciting new adventure for one of our Fish!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (...

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...

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 ...

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...

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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