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Our mission

To increase the number of people doing their best work.

Your gift to society is your best work. Progress has relied on us all developing individual skills and diverse talents that move us forward together. We all benefit when each one of us makes our unique contribution and shares our gifts with each other. Where we work, matters, but finding it in the first place is still unreasonably difficult. Making applications can be like throwing your CV into a black hole, using a sales-driven recruitment agent removes your control. The experience is difficult and painful.

cord is a direct job search platform that enables the most simple transaction on earth - a conversation - to happen between someone and their future colleagues. Underneath the hood, facilitating these conversations isn't so simple. We are rebuilding the underlying infrastructure that underpins it all, able to handle recruiting complexity and distribute people and opportunities at scale.

Hiring teams inside the world's most advanced technology companies use cord to hire, from recent Y-Combinator alumni to publicly listed technology companies. Whole teams are built on cord that wouldn't otherwise exist, inside companies whose work develops vaccines, tackles climate change and builds autonomous vehicles. To date we’ve helped thousands of people find their best work, but this is only the start...

If you are interested in joining us, you can read more about the life at cord and meet the team.

Our Values

Put people first

We build what people want. We put people before revenue.

Make it simple

We believe quality is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

Be real

We give people open access to all the information we can. We believe that informed people make great decisions.

Create change

We hire inspiring people who take risks and innovate. We believe there is a better way.

The story so far...

cord was started in a bedroom by two friends (Ben and Will) who believed that finding work, didn’t work.
cord back in the days
Talented people didn’t want to sift through faceless job boards or get sold off by a third party. They wanted something more simple: to speak directly to someone who is hiring someone like them.
cord always says thank you to its users
In the Autumn of 2016, we built a basic system that allowed people and companies to message eachother, somewhere they trust, on their own terms. Without investment or start-up experience cord grew.
cord is growing
We’ve hired inspiring people who believe in our mission. We’ve innovated and built through feedback. We've put people first.
the team behind cord
By building a unique experience that gave people direct access to the hiring teams inside some of the world’s most advanced technology companies, cord’s user base grew. To date, we’ve enabled over 150,000 direct conversations to happen, helping thousands of people find their best work.
cord is growing

The clearest route to a good life is doing your best work.

To date, we are a team of 40, who have enabled thousands of people to do their best work. And this is only the start...