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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...

#RECSavage Rocks UK Recruiters

If you know your industry- you know the name Greg Savage . The Rugby World Cup has brought many Aussie legends to our shores (yup, stil...

New Client Compliance Feature

We’ve created brand new client compliance features to help protect your business during Covid-19.

Managing Compliance with Firefish Software

Our expert team of ex-recruiters know compliance is vital in recruitment, so we're proud to show you why our compliance is five-star rated.

Firefish Product News: Google for Jobs API

Millions of job seekers turn to Google when looking for their next job. In fact, there are more than 300 million employment-related Goo...

Firefish Product News: Shiftboard integration

We’re ex-bream-ly excited to announce our latest integration with employee rostering software, Shiftboard. This update has allowed us t...

Firefish Product News: Direct Apply

Attract more candidates with Direct Apply from Firefish Did you know that 60% of candidates won’t complete a job application if it’s to...

Firefish Product News: Firefish for Gmail

At Firefish, we’re continuously innovating our product to make sure we’re always giving our users the best experience possible. Recentl...

Firefish and Microsoft Azure - A Handsome Pair

“We’re delighted to be on the Azure platform and to be working so closely with Microsoft to deliver an amazing product for the recruitm...

You... Your Texts Are On Fire

"...and it burns, burns, burns the ring of fire" "We didn't start the fire, it was always burnin'..." Yeah, there are a lot of songs ou...

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