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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.

International Women's Day 2017 at Firefish Software

This year's theme for International Women's Day was #BeBoldForChange. Here's how we celebrated the Firefish females in the Aquarium...

2017 is Off to A Flying Start For Firefish!

In January, we welcomed a fin-omenal 65 new customers aboard! Here are some reasons why 105 cities around the world now #lovethefish...

Celebrating a Great Year at Firefish Software

December – a time for reminiscing, for rejoicing, for looking back on the past 12 months and consuming a whole tonne of chocolate, mull...

Cycling for a Wheelie Great Cause

Most people, when they book annual leave, intend to collapse on a beach for two weeks and only move a muscle to sip another ice-cold be...

Work Hard, Play Hard!

Life in the Aquarium – we know how to work (hard!) but when the need calls, we know how to play hard too! So after a full on, hectic fi...

A Picnic (and some wise words) in the Park

Okay, there wasn't a picnic per se, it was more a feast for the ears than the belly. On Monday our CEO Wendy and UX Ninja (haaaa ya!) C...

Forget Dashing – it’s Cycling Through the Snow

Now don’t get us wrong, we love Christmas and the festive season as much as the next over-sized elf but there’s a wee bit of it we’re l...

So Long to a Cracking Year

2015- you’ve been a wee belter! Something about this time of year makes us stop and take stock of what’s happened over the last year.

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!

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!

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!

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.

A Fin-omenal Month of Promotions and Awards

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

Firefish wins TIARA Award

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

S1jobs Recruitment Awards 2021

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

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.

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...

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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