cord
2 hires, saving time and increasing our response rate to 50%
"Engineers from cord will move further through our hiring process than those from other sources"
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direct hires made through cord50%
positive response rate from engineerscord usage
2 direct hires
72 people sourced
4 positions
2 users
Santa Clara County
About Alpha Medical
Alpha aims to empower women to take control of their personal healthcare by providing patients with access to simple, everyday medical needs in a convenient, affordable, and discreet online process. From birth control to menopause, urgent care to chronic conditions, Alpha offers a whole-person, virtual primary care platform built for women's unique healthcare needs. Every Alpha patient is matched with a dedicated medical provider whom the patient will see for every visit, ensuring coordinated and continuous care. Alpha’s medical providers are experts in women’s health and give personalized care at every step in our patients’ healthcare journeys.
Our Goal
Alpha has been growing rapidly, and our hiring efforts need to match the scale we're expanding at - we needed a tool that would help us speak to quality Engineers that match our hiring requirements.
Our Situation
High volume, low quality
Before we started using cord, we struggled to find quality Engineers - we had lots of inbound applications but often the people that applied didn't have the skills we required or just weren't the Seniority level we were looking for. It took a lot of time to review applications and was keeping us from applying our time more efficiently elsewhere in the business.
We also tried outbound sourcing, but we found other problems - we'd find people that were a fit for us but they were either unresponsive or not looking for a new role. We joined cord looking for the solution to our inbound and outbound problems. We needed a tool that would help us identify and reach out to quality Engineers that were looking to switch roles.
Using cord
Clear and active
As soon as we signed up to cord, we were given access to streams of candidates that matched the criteria we were looking for - we're easily able to see if someone's actively looking for a new role and how recently they were logged in to cord. We can be super-specific about which profiles appear in the stream as we can specify primary and secondary skills, salary expectations, seniority level and previous experience. This makes our sourcing decisions easy and efficient.
Collaboration made simple
As I look at the new people that appear each day in my streams I can quickly save or hide the profiles of Engineers as necessary. When I've reviewed them, our Lead Recruiter Zack can log in to cord, see who I've saved and reach out with a templated message that features an automated follow-up, in just a few clicks. Because of the match on skills and the fact that Engineers on cord are actively looking to switch roles, the response rate to our messages has been above 50%, 5x better than we were getting on Linkedin.
Fast, efficient
cord has allowed us to be effective with our time, we can identify, message and get Engineers into our hiring pipeline much fast and easier than we've previously been able to. To add to this, because of the quality of people on cord, they typically get further through the interview process than people that come from other sources.