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Composing a Killer LinkedIn Message as a Recruiter

A guide for recruiters on creating killer LinkedIn messages that nurture and engage the candidate relationships that accelerate profitability.

Using Data to Increase Productivity

Discover how high-growth recruitment agencies utilise their data for productivity, database enrichment and to accelerate profitable growth.

Job Ad Mistakes That Affect Your Conversion Rate

Mistakes in your recruitment agencies job adverts could be harming your growth, discover the top job ad mistakes and how to avoid them.

Top Email Marketing Strategy Tips and Tools

Email marketing can be a great channel for recruiters looking to engage with candidates and clients - elevate your email marketing strategy with these insights.

Top Tips on Managing Candidate Salary Expectations

Managing candidate salary expectations can be the difference between successful and failed placements - discover how recruiters can navigate a sensitive issue.

Utilising TikTok for Recruitment

TikTok burst on the the recruitment scene a few years ago but how can your recruitment agency leverage the social phenomenon to accelerate profitability?

How to Deal with Candidate Backouts

Candidate blackouts and ghosting are more frequent than any recruiter would like. Discover how the top-performing recruiters deal with these challenges.

How to Increase Your Job Ad Reach

What impact can SEO and AI tools have on the performance of your recruitment agencies job adverts? Discover how to increase performance using both.

Adjusting Your Recruitment Strategy on Twitter

What does the change from Twitter to X mean for recruitment agencies using the platform to source and place candidates and how can you maximise performance?

Hitting Your Targets in a Tough Market

Hitting your recruitment targets is the difference between a recruiter and a top-biller. Discover how to achieve your targets, no matter the market.

How and Why to Maximise Your Job Briefs

Maximising your recruitment agencys job briefs can be the difference between success and failure. Discover how to enhance job briefs within your CRM.

Managing Contract Recruitment Client Relationships

Contract clients often need frequent relationship management in recruitment. Discover how to make the most of your relationships to maximise profitability.

May Newssplash

Check out what the shoal have been up to in May with some new fishy faces, fishaversaries and fin-tastic monthly winners!

Firefish welcomes Richard Lewis as Chairman

Firefish Software are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Chairman, Richard Lewis.

April Newssplash

See what the shoal have been up to recently, from new faces to quizzes and Aprils monthly winners!

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 Recognised At The Herald's Top Employer Awards 2022

We are proud to announce that we've won the Judge's Special Recognition Award at The Herald Top Employer Awards 2022!

A Pawsome End to August

We've been busy this August! We celebrated International Dog Day, held a World Photo Day competition, plus we have new End of Month Winners!

August You Glad to See us?

In August's update, we have news about our Summer Social, new End of Month Winners and newly introduced Fish so let’s dive in!

It’s Been July Noted!

In July's Newssplash, we talk about our latest awards news, probation passes from our fish, and a new podcast! Let's dive in!

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!

Recruitment Agency Expo Birmingham 2019

On Wednesday October 2nd, our fin-tastic Growth team swam south for the Recruitment Agency Expo in Birmingham! Across the two-day event...

Firefish Showcase at the UK Recruiter Tech Event

At Firefish we’re always trying to reach as many recruiters as possible to show them how Firefish can change the way they recruit. Fore...

Employee Experience Awards 2019

Here at Firefish we're incredibly proud of the fantastic software we've created and of our team of fabulous Fish. So we're delighted to...

Firefish Wins Best Recruitment CRM (Again!)

After winning the award for Best Recruitment CRM in 2018, we are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have won Best Recruitment CRM ...

An Exciting Expo-dition!

February was a month of balloon hearts, chocolates hearts, and winning the hearts of lots of lovely recruiters at the Recruitment Expo!...

Swimming Down to The Annual TEAM Conference

Our Chief Fish and Head of Happiness swam down to the annual TEAM Conference and had a whale of a time! Here's what they got up to...

Fintastic News - Onrec Awards

Here at Firefish, we keep doing what we do and striving to improve because we really love it, and our clients do too.  That’s what keep...

A Swim Around #TuringFest 2016

In the Aquarium, we’re all for a summer staycation when it comes to getting shit done. But every so often, especially when something as...

We Looked into the Future and Liked What We Saw

For those who know Firefish Software® from our product, our social media, our blog- you may be aware that yesterday was a pretty big da...

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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