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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
January 21, 2020

Firefish Software Turns 10!

It’s our 10th birthday! Can you believe your favourite fishies have been changing the way businesses recruit for a whole decade?

Culture
December 11, 2019

Fish of the Year 2019

We Fishies love a party, so when December comes around, we get fired up for the biggest party in the Firefish calendar: our Fishmas ext...

Culture
October 31, 2019

Halloween in the Aquarium

We Fishies aren’t a squeamish bunch, so we’re not scared to dive into some frightful fun when Halloween comes around. So this year, we ...

Culture
September 10, 2019

Focus Day: Celebrating Success

Last Friday was our bi-annual Fishy Focus Day, when the company gets together for a full day of team updates, company insights, some br...

Culture
July 28, 2019

Firefish Sports Day 2019

Here at Firefish we love to stay fire-fit, so once a year our Head of Happiness, Vicki organises the Firefish Sports Day. This year, we...

Culture
March 15, 2019

Putt-ing on Our Thinking Caps for Focus Day!

March means one very important thing to the Fish - Focus Day!  At the beginning of the month we all got together to hear how each team ...

Culture
May 9, 2017

CodeClan Meet the Cod Clan

We love visitors at the Aquarium so it was great to have the CodeClan gang visit us to get a glimpse of life as a developer at Firefish.

Culture
April 25, 2017

Firefish Software Shortlisted at the 6th Annual S1 Awards

We swam along to the 6th annual S1 Jobs awards, where we were nominated for ‘Best Use of Social Media as Part of a Recruitment Campaign’!

Culture
April 3, 2017

New Fish and Star Fish at the Aquarium

We welcomed two fin-tastic new fish to the Aquarium in March... AND we had some wonderful star fish too...

Culture
April 20, 2022

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!

Event
February 14, 2022

Recruitment Agency Expo 2022

Face-to-face events are back and this month our Growth team swam down to London for the Recruitment Agency Expo!

Event
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.

November 1, 2021

A Fin-omenal Month of Promotions and Awards

There was a lot of success and progress to celebrate at Firefish this October!

Event
September 13, 2021

Firefish wins TIARA Award

We attended our first in-person award ceremony since 2019... and spoiler alert, we won!

Event
September 2, 2021

S1jobs Recruitment Awards 2021

We had a great night celebrating the virtual s1jobs Recruitment Awards for 2021.

Event
February 11, 2020

Daring to Be Different at Rec Expo 2020

This month, our Fishies swam down to the London Recruitment Agency Expo for another fin-tastic two-day event at the Olympia.

Event
October 16, 2019

UK Customer Experience Awards 2019

The UK Customer Experience Awards (UKCXA) is the biggest event focused on customer experience in the world. So as you can imagine, we w...

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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