Candidate insights

Data-led insights on candidate behaviour and preferences when looking for work

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Candidate insights

Retention & attraction: what motivates candidates to leave and join your business

Advice from surveying 1,100 experienced candidates on why they're leaving their current role, and what they're looking for in potential employers

Candidate attraction
Applications
Retention
Employee brand
Candidate survey
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Candidate insights

How top companies build an award-winning candidate experience

A Q&A with cord’s Hiring Awards winners on overcoming the challenges of building an exceptional candidate experience, the most effective initiatives they’ve implemented, and actionable advice for any company to follow.

Candidate Experience
Hiring Leaders Awards
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Candidate insights

Large-Company Spotlight: Building an award-winning candidate experience

A Q&A with cord’s Hiring Awards winners on overcoming the challenges of building an exceptional candidate experience, the most effective initiatives they’ve implemented, and actionable advice for any company to follow.

Candidate Experience
Large companies
Hiring Leaders Awards
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Candidate insights

Scale up Spotlight: Building an award-winning candidate experience

A Q&A with cord’s Hiring Awards winners on overcoming the challenges of building an exceptional candidate experience, the most effective initiatives they’ve implemented, and actionable advice for any company to follow.

Candidate Experience
Scale up
Hiring Leaders Awards
Cover of Start up spotlight: Building an award-winning candidate experience article

Candidate insights

Start up spotlight: Building an award-winning candidate experience

A Q&A with cord’s Hiring Awards winners on overcoming the challenges of building an exceptional candidate experience, the most effective initiatives they’ve implemented, and actionable advice for any company to follow.

Candidate Experience
Hiring Leaders Awards
Start up
Cover of How offering remote working increases your chances of hiring article

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How offering remote working increases your chances of hiring

An analysis of the gap between remote positions on offer and the remote working demand from candidates, and how this can help your hiring process.

Remote Working
Cover of Engineer interviews: Building a process that attracts great candidates article

Candidate insights

Engineer interviews: Building a process that attracts great candidates

Lessons from over 300 engineers on how to reduce your interview drop-out rate

Candidate Preferences
Interviews
Candidate Experience
Cover of The sourcing playbook: Lessons from 20,000+ outreach messages article

Candidate insights

The sourcing playbook: Lessons from 20,000+ outreach messages

Data-led insights on the behaviours that lead to the highest response rates from sourcing messages

Sourcing
Response Rate
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Candidate insights

Update: Applications Vs Sourcing

Recent data analysis on the market changes and most effective way to make direct hires

Applications
Hires
Candidate Behaviour
Sourcing
Market Update
Cover of How to attract quality applications  article

Candidate insights

How to attract quality applications

Analysis of a recent candidate survey and company behaviour data to provide actionable advice for hiring-teams

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Candidate insights

Hiring In-Demand Talent in 2023

A data-led report on how the behaviour of Top Talent differs to the rest of the market

Candidate Behaviour
Applications
Sourcing
Hires
In-Demand Talent
Market Update
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Candidate insights

Applications Vs Sourcing: What's the best way to make hires?

Analysis on market changes and the most effective way to make direct hires.

Applications
Sourcing
Hires
Candidate Behaviour