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Payter
Making 2 quality senior hires
VoCoVo
Taking the anxiety out of hiring at pace
Legal 500
Making all of our engineering hires on cord
Atomic
Making 7 high-calibre hires
Halo Solutions Ltd
Cutting costs by 95% and hiring time by 50%
Aqovia UK
2 hires in 30 days from quality inbound applications
Hook
Senior Full Stack Developer hired within 13 days
RVU (Uswitch.com, Money.co.uk, Confused.com, Tempcover)
Making 11 senior hires in 12 months
Jet2.com
5 quality hires in 1 month from inbound applications
Cleo
Making 5 engineering hires into a niche tech-stack
Simprints
Growing our non-profit company with 6 quality hires
Perlego
Making 13 hires who believe in our mission
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
Further
How cord enabled us to stop using recruitment agencies
The Economist Group
Hiring a diverse team of quality engineers on cord
Dexory
The cost per hire - especially in non-tech - worked out phenomenally
Searchland
Two months of unsuccessful sourcing were resolved in one week on cord
Clerq
Saving £25,000 by hiring directly through cord
Bezos.ai
All of our early stage engineering team have come from cord
SEOTesting.com
2 quality hires made within a month, doubling our initial recruitment goal
SalesDesk
6 hires in six months, saving us £120k in recruiter fees
MWI Practice Technology
Making our first 5 hires in only 7 weeks
Bark
Reducing our time to hire to 18 days with cord
Mobkoi
Over 12 hires made and costs reduced by 70%-75%
Global Relay
Over 50 quality tech hires hires made across Global Relay
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
tiney
Our latest hire is someone who approached us
C TWO
13 hires made and time to hire reduced to two and a half weeks
Marshmallow
Made 2 quick hires by sourcing for just 15 minutes a day
PetLab
Making 6 quality hires in 6 months using cord
Looper Insights
Leveraged cord’s diversity filters to find women in tech and made 3 hires
Regulatory Genome Development
Relevant inbound messages enabled us to make 16 hires in 6 months
Radically Digital
5 hires made and response rate increased to 60%
Equal Experts
Customisable search criteria and diversity filters enabled us to speak with only the most relevant people and experience a 80% response rate
Framework
Making a crucial first hire and saving £15k by hiring direct
Kainos
23 quality hires made this financial year
Muzz
Hiring in 3 days. 20 hires so far
Mirriad Advertising Plc
6 hires made and £90,000 saved by not paying hiring fees
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
Insurwave
Our response rate increased to 90% and recruitment costs were reduced by £60,000
Gousto
Making 10 hires and reducing our sourcing time to 10 minutes a day
loveholidays
We found a diverse pool of Engineers to hire from, made 8 hires and saved £120,000 by going direct
Learn Amp
Candidate quality-wise it’s the best we have
Two
11 direct hires made and reduced recruitment costs by over £100,000
Omnevue
Overwhelmed with a high volume of applications with unsuitable working rights, we have now made 4 hires through quality conversations
Fruugo
Senior hires made and £45,000 saved compared to using an agency
Trayport
Drastically reducing agency spend with direct tech hires
CreateFuture
31 hires made and £300,000 saved by going direct
Airwalk Reply
Making 15 hires and improving our response rate to 57%
Transparity
18 hires including a Principal Architect
Currencycloud
Saved £345k in agency fees with 23 direct hires
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
3rd Eye Vision Ltd
We’ve hired 4 remote developers and reduced our need to use job boards
smarTours
Hiring and increasing our response rate to over 50%.
airx health
Hiring in 4 weeks and improving our response rate by 50x
Ordaos Bio
A perfect hire and increasing our response rate to 55%
Aspiration
4 hires and $100,000 saved
Octopus Money
Hired in 7 days and improving our response rate to 44%
MyTutor
7 direct hires and increasing our response rate to 43%
Novata
Hiring and saving £15,000
Alpha Medical
2 hires, saving time and increasing our response rate to 50%
i6 Systems
2 hires in 3 months and improving our response rate to 41%
IntellectEU
5 direct hires and upgrading our response rate to 54%
OpenSC
2 hires and £20k in savings
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
Bloom Procurement Services
Hiring and saving £50k by going direct.
Aistetic
Hiring in 6 weeks and improving our response rate
Mars
Hiring and increasing our response rate increased by 30%
Thrive Tribe
5 direct hires made and a positive response rate increased to 53%
wi-Q
Hiring within two weeks and saving £75k by going direct
Healios
First hire in 3 weeks and increasing our response rate to 52%
Kroo
48% positive response rate from Engineers and 5 hires made
Zinc
Hiring in under a month and increasing our response rate to 45%
10x Banking
Over 8 direct hires in 7 months
Allica Bank
11 engineering hires and £80,000 saved on hiring fees
JUXT
2 direct hires, 80% response rate from engineers
Arthur
Hiring in less than a month
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
Vonage
11+ direct hires, 60% response rate
Bilt Rewards
Hiring and doubling our response rate
Reach Plc
12 hires and reducing costs by 85%
B Live
Making our first hire in less than 3 weeks
Compose
45 active engineers sourced on cord with 3 hires made
kevin.
Scaling our team remotely with 9 hires in 5 months
Spitfire Audio
3 hires made with 62% of engineers replying to our messages
Skippet
3 direct hires and increasing our response rate to 45%
Socios.com
Hiring a QA Test Engineer and increasing our response rate to 66%
Mava
Pipeline filled after 3 weeks and 2 direct hires made
Panaseer
30% of open roles hired directly on cord
Unleash
58% positive response rate from engineers and 3 hires made
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
Greyfinch
3 direct hires made including UX Lead
TympaHealth
3 hires on cord in just a few months
Codat
Making over 30 hires on cord
Jagaad
2 hires and increasing our response rate to 48%
Perkbox
Quality hires sourced on cord and while making 3+ hires
Surfe
Making 2 hires in two months as a remote-first start-up
Mindera
5 quality hires in 3 months
Kingfisher
Making 16 hires in 14 months
Mott MacDonald
Exceptional response rates and 6 key hires
NTT DATA
Quality candidates and 5 direct hires made on cord
Slalom
Making 16 hires at pace
FanDuel
4 hires made between UK and US offices
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
Civica
Making 7+ direct hires and tripling our ROI
Funding Circle
2 weeks sourcing 11 people and making our first direct hire
Confiant
2.5 weeks to first hire on cord with 44% of messages sent to engineers replied to
OpenAsset
1 in 2 developers at OpenAsset were hired on cord
Tendable
4 direct hires made on cord with a 82% positive response rate
Two
Making direct hires as a 100% remote company
LYTT
2 hires in 7 weeks looking for Remote Developers
Tutorful
Making 3 hires in 2 months as a Remote-first start-up
Cera
Making 4 hires in 5 weeks as a remote-first scale-up
Checkout.com
Making 11 hires across Product & Technology
Playtech
Hiring 3 Software Engineers in the same week
PromoVeritas
Hiring quality developers at a short cost
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
Solidatus
Hiring 3 Developers in 3 weeks
Béa Fertility
Making our first technical hire on cord
Future Platforms
Hiring in 48 hours on cord
Flexciton
9 direct hires made - Helping us grow from 12 employees to 26
Holland & Barrett
cord accounts for 50% of all our technical hires
Troi
How cord helped us make 24 Engineering hires in 12 months
Thought Machine
Making 30 engineering hires who meet our high technical bar
Medidata Solutions
When it comes to direct sourcing, I'll always chose cord over LinkedIn
YouLend
Hiring 21 people into our Engineering team directly on cord
Tevent
Hiring a Front End Engineer in 3 days
Perlego
How cord helped me make 10 hires during lockdown
Amido
6 challenging technical roles hired with a 90% positive response rate
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made
TradingHub
Scaling our Engineering team with 10 direct hires on cord
Upgrade Pack
5 direct hires made on cord, saving us £75,000 compared to an using an agency
Olvin
4 direct hires made in just 3 months on cord
Contino
3 direct hires made with a 70% positive response rate from engineers
Depop
10 direct hires made, saving £150,000 compared to using an agency
Simply Business
3 quality Ruby engineers hired on cord
Codurance
£15,000 saved on external costs and making 2 direct hires
Thought Machine
Making 16 direct Engineering hires on cord
Vonage
Hiring multiple Back End Engineers directly on cord
Climate Edge
75% Response rate from engineers, hired 1 Backend developer on cord
Swoop
9 hires made, 2 after 6 weeks on cord
Avora
2 quality hires made, filling our most challenging roles on cord
M2A Media
1 direct hire made within 2 weeks on cord
Lightricks
Saving £15,000 on external hiring fees and 45% response rate from engineers
Codat
Achieving our hiring results quickly with 3 direct hires made on cord
Muzz
6 hires made while continuing to fill our pipeline
ThirdEye Labs
51 quality people sourced with high reward
Chattermill
151 people sourced with a 37% positive response rate from engineers on cord
Zappar
24 people sourcing, resulting in 1 direct hire made on cord
Humanising Autonomy
2 quality, direct hires made on cord
Medidata Solutions
5 direct hires made with a 42% positive response rate from engineers
Nomio
1 hired made within 3 weeks of joining
Explori
20 people sourced and 2 direct hires made on cord
Qflow
From raising seed investment, to making 2 direct hires within 4 weeks
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£9,800avg. saving per hire
2 daysfastest time to hire
3,000+direct hires made