JobAdder vs Firefish: A flexible alternative

Want the freedom of an open API and flexible subscription plans? We’re all about adding joy to the job of recruitment so we’ve got integrations with 150+ partners (including LinkedIn Recruiter), contracts that grow with your business and UK support and onboarding teams.

“My favourite thing about JobAdder is the flexibility that it provides. We can completely customise the software to match exactly what we need and what works for our business.” – Laura Moffitt, Harper Anderton

Comparing JobAdder and Firefish recruitment software

JobAdder and Firefish both provide recruiting and staffing solutions that work for recruitment agencies of any size.

What is JobAdder?

JobAdder is a cloud-based ATS and CRM platform. Built by recruiters for recruiters, JobAdder streamlines your recruiting workflow so you can focus on getting the best results for your clients by placing better candidates, faster.

JobAdder builds recruitment software you’ll love to use. Our recruitment platform features one main dashboard with a drag-and-drop workflow, custom workflows to suit any pipeline and pop-out task drawers, so you can work faster with fewer clicks.


What is Firefish?

Firefish is a recruitment CRM, ATS and marketing solution with built-in recruitment marketing tools, candidate sourcing and management and analytics features.

Firefish does not have an open API but it does integrate with some job boards. It focuses on integrating your recruitment activities with your marketing efforts.


JobAdder vs. Firefish ATS and CRM

Where JobAdder shines:

  • Australian support, implementation, and cloud-based data storage with ISO 27001 certification
  • Flexible subscription or contract pricing plans
  • 150+ partner marketplace, including LinkedIn Recruiter integration
  • Basic and advanced reporting available
  • Strong customer satisfaction with speed of ATS and CRM
  • On-demand learning in-product at no additional cost
  • Live support with a customer satisfaction score (CSAT) of 99%
  • Mobile app native to iOS and Android

Where Firefish shines:

  • Scotland-based with UK development and support
  • Affordable pricing with long-term contracts, minimum of 12 months
  • No open API and no integration with LinkedIn Recruiter, but does integrate with a select number of job boards
  • Basic reporting functionality available
  • Solid search and filter functionality though can be a slow system
  • Offers onboarding and training, though some features need external training
  • Good support offering
  • Web-only software

Why choose JobAdder?

Simplify the job of recruitment

We don’t try to do everything. We focus on the things that matter to recruiters and do them expertly. Our cloud-based platform and mobile app let you recruit from anywhere, any time. With 150+ integrations built for maximising revenue from recruitment, you can create a tailored solution that scales with your business growth. 

Save time with customisable workflows

Our core product allows you to build custom workflows to meet the needs of your job. Use our drag-and-drop workflows with pop-out drawers to complete your tasks with fewer clicks. You don’t want to spend time or money on admin when you could be talking to candidates.

Deliver better results for your clients

Reduce time-to-fill. Increase placement volume. Source proactively to build talent nurture pools that help you place candidates faster. Our integrations with LinkedIn, SourceWhale and more lets you access millions of candidate profiles–all without leaving JobAdder. And you can track it all with simple and customisable reporting that you can export and share with clients.

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Get local customer support

Get local customer service, no matter where your business is located. We provide support for every user, not just account administrators, at no additional cost. On-demand training is baked into your JobAdder workflow, so you don’t have to waste time learning how to use the platform. 

Switching from Firefish to JobAdder

Switching platforms might seem like a daunting task, but our team work closely with you throughout your data migration and implementation. Have a chat with us to see how we can help.

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Why Firefish customers are migrating to JobAdder

Native tools

JobAdder’s core platform provides a whole suite of recruitment features out-of-the-box. Imagine all your daily tasks in a drag-and-drop workflow – job creation, sourcing, messaging and communication, assessments, interviews and more. We also offer add-ons and integrations (including LinkedIn Recruiter!) that plug and play with our core platform. We’re not trying to do everything, we focus on doing what we do well.

Continuous innovation

We listen to our customers when it comes to improving our platform and we offer customisable workflows to ensure we’re adding joy to your job. Platform development is needs-based and customer-driven. We’re constantly innovating so you can deliver the best results for your clients using the best technology. Continuous development at no additional cost. 

Flexible pricing

Pricing to suit any business size Customers stay because JobAdder makes the job of recruitment easier for everyone – consultants, clients and candidates. Unlike an all-in-one solution, you’ll only pay for the features you actually need to run your business.

The personal touch

Even though we’ve come a long way since our humble beginnings, we recognise and celebrate our roots. Our business is built by recruiters who are passionate about recruitment. Our job is to add joy to your job. We want you to love using your ATS and will do everything to help make this happen. After all, you use it every day!

Hear why your peers love JobAdder

3rd Feb
Matt Sampson
Aspect Personnel

The platform is so user intuitive, the most user-intuitive ATS that I’ve seen. Getting people up to speed on JobAdder is so straightforward. We’ve got people here who are up and running within 3-4 days. For me, the three things about JobAdder that not only keep us loyal but have us advocating JobAdder to our industry colleagues are: the simplicity of the system, the innovative mindset and the transparency with which you run your business.

17th May
Matt Baker
Bolton Clarke

It has been valuable to have our metrics readily available to dive into and report on. It’s drastically reduced our time to collate reports and provide more in-depth analysis than we’ve previously been able to do.

3rd Feb
Liz Johnson
TAP – The Ability People

So the best thing for us about JobAdder is the fact that it provides a central location where we can store information, we can share information, we can communicate via it, so whoever is working on a specific role or project at a certain time can always access all of the information they need, so there’s never a black spot in our communication or our productivity based on which team member is working at a specific time.

3rd Feb
Matt Baker
Bolton Clarke

We now have a really solid core ATS. It’s enabling our recruiters to spend more time with candidates and also lets us now focus on the applicant’s experience and, following into that, the employee experience. One major achievement would be our time to hire. That’s been smashed down to around 22-odd days so we’ve halved what the KPI was.

17th May
Johanna Laface
Vocus Group

The Hiring Manager tool has allowed us to further automate and reduce the amount of admin in our process. Our business is very “fast-moving”, and I believe that JobAdder aligns to that. We get the quick response time out of JobAdder, which is what we need to successfully perform in our roles.

17th May
Tom Mackintosh
Talent International

JobAdder allows us to tie into international job boards very easily, which means that we can get their brand out into regions they don’t usually have access to.

3rd Feb
Chris Redmond
RedHolt

The guys love using JobAdder, and when the guys love using JobAdder they take to it and the complexity of day-to-day procedural things is dramatically different to the way that people feel about having to do a chore. They like using JobAdder and we all use it wherever we are with the mobile app or our laptops.

3rd Feb
Jessie Morphet
RipCurl

You can really see how far ahead in the process managers are – it gives me a bird’s eye view of the recruitment process and where we are falling down. I also really love that you can set up email templates, where I can bulk email [and] insert fields so it looks more personalised. It just allows me to do things quicker than if I was doing a manual process. It’s quite intuitive.

3rd Feb
Justine Hartman
Cbus Super Fund

It’s time-saving, but ultimately for me, it’s the candidate experience that is the biggest value add, to give candidates the attention that they need.