Firefish Recruitment Podcast

Join Firefish CEO, Wendy McDougall, and Candidate Source Limited's Managing Director, Michelle Davies. Michelle founded Candidate Source in 2010, after recognising that recruiters needed an ally; someone that had the expertise to support them in their job advertising when the to-do list got too long. After more than 13 years, Candidate Source Ltd continues to assist recruitment agencies in gro...

Join Firefish CEO, Wendy McDougall, in conversation with Recruiting Gym Managing Director, Angela Cripps and learn How to maximise your agency's impact before Christmas to succeed in 2024. Angela is a highly experienced trainer, management consultant, coach, NED, mentor and performance specialist with 30+ years' experience within the recruitment industry. With Recruiting Gym Angela aims to...

Join Firefish CEO, Wendy McDougall, in discussion with Roy Dungworth as they explore: 'How to Unlock the Potential of Contract Recruiting'. Roy is the Director and Founder of Consiliario Consulting, an advisory organisation for the professional staffing industry. Roy is also Commercial Director of Elite Leaders. With over 25 years experience leading a number of the leading tech staffing or...

Join Wendy, CEO of Firefish Software, and 'Million Pound Billier' Brad Shackleton, as they discuss ' How to Perfect Your Sales Technique to Achieve New Business '.   Brad specialises in motivating, coaching, and developing ‘High Performance Sales Teams' and businesses on behalf of highly ambitious CEO's, Directors, Sales Professionals, & Entrepreneurs who aspire to be t...

Ann Swain is the founder and Global CEO of APSCo, an international trade body representing the professional recruitment sector with operations in the UK, Germany, Singapore and Australia. Ann is the author of the best-selling ‘Professional Recruiter’s Handbook’ and has over 30 years’ recruitment experience including time as Managing Director of Learning Curve and UK Sales Director at Computer Peop...

Join the Firefish CEO Wendy McDougall and Vanessa Raath of The Talent Hunter as they give a live demonstration of how AI video tools can be used to market candidates. With over 15 years of experience in the Recruitment Industry, Vanessa Raath has honed her skills in the Tech space. Vanessa now specialises in training recruiters to succeed in talent sourcing. Vanessa is passionate about elevating t...

Become a recruiter of the future, today. Get a glimpse into the future of recruitment and discover how your recruitment agency can become 10x more efficient overnight. Explore how AI will support recruiters to streamline admin, create engaging communications and attract more candidates as we take a look at the next generation of recruitment, powered by ChatGPT.

Join Firefish CEO Wendy as she chats to Johnny Campbell, CEO of SocialTalent about the current talent acquisition market and the new opportunities out there for agencies. Firefish CEO Wendy McDougall and guest Johnny Campbell discuss: ⚡ What does the talent acquisition market currently look like? ⚡ What are clients looking for just now from recruitment agencies? ⚡ How has RPO implementation cha...

(Please be aware that there were some audio technical difficulties during the start of this show) Join Firefish CEO Wendy as she chats to Louise Archer, founder of Retrained Search, about how to win retained business for your recruitment agency and the differences versus contingent recruitment. Firefish CEO Wendy McDougall and guest Louise Archer discuss: ⚡ The advantages of retained versus conti...

On February’s Crowdcast, Wendy chats to recruitment pricing expert, Jon Brooks, as he explains how to adapt your pricing strategy, demonstrate more value to your clients and stop working for free! Firefish CEO Wendy McDougall and guest Jon Brooks discuss: ⚡ Why you should raise your prices this year ⚡ Different models to use when changing your pricing strategy ⚡ How to stop working for free and...

On our first Crowdcast of Season 5, we talk with guest Neil Carberry about the outlook for the recruitment industry in 2023 and how recruiters can continue to find success amid economic uncertainty. Gordon Webb and guest Neil Carberry, CEO of the REC discuss: ⚡ Thoughts on the economy and unemployment rates heading into 2023 ⚡ Why this recession will be different for recruitment than i...

On November’s Crowdcast, we talk with guest Christina Robinson about how to keep up with the top trends on social media and how to make your business stand out online in 2023. Wendy and guest Christina Robinson, Managing Director at Green Umbrella Marketing discuss: ⚡ Improving your visibility through personal branding ⚡ How to use social media for PR in 2023 ⚡ The importance of...

On October’s Crowdcast, we talk with guest Katy Green about how to start working on the business, instead of in the business. Wendy and guest Katy Green, Recruitment Business Mentor at Centred Excellence discuss: ⚡ How to start working on the business, instead of in the business ⚡ How to identify your superpowers as a business leader ⚡ Tips for building your team and accelerating growth ...and...

Get the most from your candidate attraction strategy and reduce cost-per-placement in Q4 by identifying what jobseekers are really searching for. Join Wendy as she welcomes back James Boshier, Head of Partner Success at CV-Library to discuss topics including: ⚡ What are candidates currently looking for when applying to jobs? ⚡ How important is salary vs benefits vs location? ⚡ How long should i...

Sourcing high performers for both your agency and clients is easier said than done.  Join Firefish CEO Wendy McDougall and Dr Chris Croner, Lead Sales Psychologist at SalesDrive as they discuss: ⚡ How can we make sure we hire the right salespeople and how do we identify top performers? ⚡ What are the common hiring mistakes people make? ⚡ What is the main personality trait to look out for,...

How do you grow your team alongside your business? Wendy and guest Angela Cripps, Owner/MD of Recruiting Gym as they discuss:  What is the role of the business plan?  How do you engage and empower your team?  What mistakes do leaders make when going for growth? ...and more Angela Cripps is a globally experienced trainer, management consultant, executive coach, board advisor, mentor...

LinkedIn is an incredibly valuable tool for Recruiters to use, but are you getting the most from it?  Join Wendy and guest  Antony Whetham, Account Director for LinkedIn as they discuss: What are the most common mistakes recruiters are making on LinkedIn? How can you personalise your InMail approach to get better responses? How can you use LinkedIn to attract more passive candidates...

Do you want to know what the current trends and challenges are in the recruitment industry? Then join Wendy and Matt Alder from 'The Recruiting Future' podcast as they discuss: What are the current trends in the recruitment industry? What is the biggest challenge hitting internal recruiters right now? How should an agency recruiter be maximising on these challenges? We have seen a rise in SME comp...

Do you want to attract more top quality talent with the Ads you post on Job Boards? Then join Wendy and James Boshier - head of partner success at CV Library to find out how to upgrade your job ads and get better results from job boards. Tune in for discussion on the following topics and more: What is driving the current price hikes in the job board market? How can you maximise the algorithm to ge...

Do you want to have productive board meetings that drive success for your recruitment agency? Then join Wendy and John O'Sullivan on Wednesday 16th to find out how you can get he most of from your board meetings to drive your agency to success.  Tune in for discussion on the following topics and more: Defining the purpose of the board and the basics of running board meetings. How should we as...

Are you ready to grow your recruitment agency 2022? Then tune in to the Firefish Crowdcast as Wendy is joined by Alison Humphries to discuss: Why should you begin to grow your recruitment business? Maximising the margins on the roles you work to become more profitable How to be more efficient when filling your vacancies Alison Humphries (MA Oxon, FIRP, CIPD, DipT&D) has more than 35 years’ exp...

Click to sign up for updates on future episodes! Do you want to know what the jobs market will look like in 2022? Then tune in to the Firefish Crowdcast as Wendy is joined by special guest and Economist from Deloitte Peter Ireson. They will be looking ahead to 2022 by discussing the following topics and more: What have been the key drivers for change in the labour market. How does the UK economy a...

Check out all of our previous episodes and sign up to watch new episodes live here! Up next on the Firefish Crowdcast is Darren Westall , join us to hear discussion on the following topics and more! How to keep your brand alive through the Christmas period. How to keep your eye on the long-term success of your brand when busy times hit. How to build a personalised marketing strategy for your busin...

Check out the rest of our Episodes and sign up to watch them live here - https://www.firefishsoftware.com/resources/live This week on the Firefish Crowdcast we are joined by James Nathan  ,  tune in to hear discussion on the following topics and more! How to build personalised career journeys for recruiters. How to continue to develop experienced recruiters. What is the best way to mento...

Clair Mohamed is our next guest on the Firefish Crowdcast with Wendy to discuss how to tailor your BD strategy to the job rich market... You can view all our previous episodes and sign up for the live shows here! Join us to hear discussion on the following topics and more: How to source the candidates that your clients can’t Why you should nurture passive candidates and how to approach them How to...