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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.

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 Recognised as the Top Recruiting Software by Software Advice

Firefish has been recognised as the top recruitment software solution!

Firefish shortlisted for Best Recruitment Agency Software

Drum roll please! Firefish Software made the Capterra Best Recruitment Agency Software 2021 shortlist.

The Firefish User Community

At Firefish we love to engage with our users and are always keen to get your feedback on our features as well as any new ideas you have.

Firefish Bulk Archive/Delete Functionality

Be in complete control of your recruitment data with your Firefish CRM. You now have the ability to bulk/archive and delete.

New KPI/Line Graph Feature

We've recently updated our reports dashboard, with two new reports that we think you're going to love.

Firefish Launch New Contract Generator

We’ve built a new contact generator that locks your contracts down for your team and works it beautifully into your job workflows.

Instant CV Formatting With Firefish

Save your recruitment agency hundreds of admin hours thanks to our new formatted CV feature. Create fully formatted CVs in an instant!

The Firefish Reports Dashboard

See your teams' recruitment activities wherever you're working with the customisable Firefish Reports Dashboard.

Automated Email Logging With Firefish

Our latest product release from Firefish let's recruiters log their email conversations from Outlook 365 directly into their recruitment CRM

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