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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.

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?

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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’!

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...

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 Product News - Reports Dashboard

At Firefish we have been making a number of improvements to our reports dashboard, check them out here.

Firefish Product Updates November

At Firefish we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment software, discover what we released in November 2022.

Firefish Product Updates October

At Firefish we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment software, discover what we released in October 2022.

Firefish Product Updates September

At Firefish we are continually improving and evolving our recruitment software, discover what we released in September 2022.

Firefish Product Updates August

We are big believers in change at Firefish, check out how we changed the product in August?

Firefish Product Updates July

We are always improving the functionality of our software, check out the changes we made in July!

Firefish Product Updates June

Take a look at some of the improvements we released in June!

Firefish Product Updates May

Take a look at some of the improvements we released in May,

Contract eSign

Signing contracts just got a whole lot easier with integrated contract eSign on Firefish!

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