Firefish Recruitment Podcast

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 make agencies more successful...

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 organisations, Roy has an outstanding...

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 the No.1 service provider in their Ind...

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 People.

In this episode, Wend...

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 the standard of sourcing globally...

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 changed and how can agencies adapt?

...a...

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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 contingent recruitment

⚡ The mindset need...

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 demonstrate more value to clients!

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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 in previous years

⚡ How recruiter...

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 online communities

...and more

Christi...

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 more

Joining Centred Excellence in 201...

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 it take to apply to a job?

⚡ How can yo...

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, when interviewing candidates?

⚡ What i...

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 and performance speci...

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?
• How can recruiters use da...

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 companies providing RPO offeri...

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 get a better return on your jo...

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 directors and leaders be me...