cord
Hiring in 4 weeks and improving our response rate by 50x
"Our response rate on cord was 50x better than we got on Linkedin"
1
direct hire in one month50%
positive response rate from outbound messagingcord usage
1 direct hire
38 people sourced
1 position
2 users
About airx health
airx health improve community health by providing next generation software for independent pharmacies to focus on their patients. They’re rethinking software for community pharmacists by providing a modern cloud-based pharmacy management system because of the recognition of the importance and the need for better solutions.
airx health have recently raised $1m in pre-seed funding and their advisors and partners have built multi-million dollar software companies.
View websiteView cord profileOur Goal
We recently raised our initial pre-seed funding and were looking to make our first hire, a Front End Developer.
Our Situation
1% on Linkedin
Prior to joining cord, we’d mainly tried to source using Linkedin, but we were struggling to get a result. We spent a lot of time searching for people that might have been be a good match for us, but without having full visibility on whether people were actively looking for work, or their technical skills, it was difficult to be confident that someone would reply to our message. This meant our response rate on Linkedin was about 1%. We needed a tool that would help us identify and reach out to Engineers that matched our requirements, and that were ready to join an early-stage start-up.
Using cord
Matching our requirements
We joined cord and straight away got access to a stream of Engineers that were not only active and ready to switch roles, they also matched the technical requirements we had. Streams made it easy for us to edit exactly who were looking for - aside from technical skills, we could filter by expected salary, work eligibility and remote-working preferences to make sure we were increasing our chances of getting a positive response back.
Increasing our response rate
After saving and hiding Engineers we liked from our streams, we had the option of using a pre-built message template that was personalised to each candidate and included an automated follow-up message. Due to the fact that the people we were messaging were active and matched the requirements we had, the response rate to our messaging jumped up to around 50% - 50x better than we previously got on Linkedin. It felt like we were speaking to people that were engaged with us, rather than just trying to get any responses as it was before.
Saving time and money
We’ve recommended cord to a few of our start-up cohorts, what we tell them is that cord allows you to augment your time and avoid spending lots of time and potentially money on sourcing methods that don’t get you results. cord got us our result and that’s why we’ve recommended it.