The limits of manual work in Firefish
- Known candidates, rarely contacted again. A candidate you met six months ago could be perfect for today's assignment. You just have to think of them at the right moment.
- Recruiters buried in admin. Follow-ups, scheduling, resume formatting: the time for selling and client relationships melts away.
- Candidates who change their minds. Between the first call and the submission, a candidate can accept another offer. Anything that shortens the timeline counts.
From Firefish to Delectus in three steps
- Connection. During setup, an administrator authorizes access to Firefish, with nothing to install.
- Sync. Jobs, candidates and their documents arrive in Delectus. Firefish stays as it is.
- Work in Delectus. Resume reading, prescreening by text or phone, prepared interviews and client submissions.
The Firefish integration, step by step
Firefish is recruiting software for agencies that centralizes candidates, clients and assignments. A Firefish administrator authorizes the connection from Delectus during setup. From then on, jobs, candidates and documents from Firefish are picked up automatically, with no double entry.
Recruiters then work in Delectus for resume reading, prescreening and interviews. Firefish stays your system of record for managing clients and assignments.
Many teams start with a pilot assignment. They compare the AI's rankings with their own reading of the resumes, adjust the criteria, then turn on prescreening by text and phone for all open roles.
What does Delectus add to Firefish?
Firefish organizes the work: it keeps track of candidates, clients and assignments. What it leaves to your recruiters is reading resumes, the first conversations with candidates and formatting submissions. That's exactly the part Delectus takes on.
Every resume is read and compared with the role, with an explained match score. Shortlisted candidates are contacted by the SMS or voice prescreening agent, which collects their answers and offers an interview. Interviews are prepared with a question kit, transcribed live and summarized by topic. The recruiter reviews, decides and presents.
Getting Firefish candidates moving again
Resumes picked up from Firefish are read by AI and turned into structured profiles, with experience, skills, industries and location. You can then query your database in plain language, for example "B2B field sales reps, medical industry, western France", and refine by experience or skill.
With every new assignment, the tool also suggests matching past candidates on its own. That's often where the fastest placements are: they already know your agency and you already know their background.
Freeing up recruiter time for client relationships
The SMS prescreening agent handles the first conversations: it checks the candidate's interest, availability and expectations, then offers an interview in the recruiter's real open slots, thanks to the calendar synced with Outlook and Teams. The voice agent calls those who'd rather talk or who don't reply to messages.
The recruiter finds the answers sorted by criterion, the transcript and a summary. They spend their time on interviews and clients, where their judgment makes the difference.
Example: an agency that recruits technicians
An agency specializing in technical trades gets a request for three maintenance technicians. Delectus surfaces about twenty similar profiles from its Firefish talent pool, including several candidates placed elsewhere two years ago.
The SMS agent texts each of them, and the voice agent calls those who work on the shop floor and rarely check their messages. Within three days, the recruiter has a list of candidates who are available, interested and prescreened on the required certifications.
Firefish and Delectus: read-only, with data in Europe
Delectus reads Firefish data and doesn't change it. You can stop the connection at any time without affecting your ATS.
Resumes, conversations and transcripts are hosted in the European Union, follow your retention periods and are never used to train models. No candidate is rejected without a human decision: the AI ranks and explains, your recruiters decide.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to leave Firefish to use Delectus?
No. You keep Firefish. Delectus fits into the way you work and takes on resume reading, prescreening and interview preparation.
Does Delectus change data in Firefish?
No. The connection is read-only: Delectus picks up your jobs, candidates and their resumes without writing anything to Firefish.
How long does it take to connect Firefish?
The connection is made during setup, as soon as a Firefish administrator has authorized access. Data then arrives with no double entry.
Does Delectus work for an agency that specializes in specific trades?
Yes. Each assignment's criteria are set by your recruiters, and the AI compares resumes with those criteria, whatever the role.
Where is the synced data hosted?
In the European Union. It's never used to train models and follows your retention periods.
