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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...

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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