cord
We’ve hired 4 remote developers and reduced our need to use job boards
"cord cuts out all of the things I dislike about recruitment"
4
remote Engineers hired45%
positive response rate from Engineerscord usage
4 direct hires
38 people sourced
3 positions
1 user
Greater London
About 3rd Eye Vision Ltd
3rd Eye Vision are an established digital agency providing their clients with strategy, design and development services. Established in 1998 they’ve been working on complex projects requiring them to get into detail - innovating, integrating, migrating, designing and delivering for demanding requirements and high expectations.
Since 2021 they've operated a remote-first approach to hiring.
Having been interdisciplinary since before it became cool, 3EV thrive on their shared passion for innovative ideas, with a fundamental understanding of what it takes to deliver a reliable, proactive and comprehensive service.
Our Goal
Since starting to work fully remote in 2021, we were looking for an efficient way to hire remote developers.
Our Situation
Job board roulette
Before we started using cord, we'd put adverts out on job boards, but we found that it was hard to speak to people directly - the majority of people that applied to our roles weren't a good fit for us, and when we decided to look for people ourselves, we'd get a low response rate to our outreach.
We needed a tool that would help us advertise our roles clearly and allow us to speak to remote developers who matched the requirements we had.
Using cord
Transparency, granularity
On cord we're able to search for Engineers based on our exact requirements - the stream of people we're presented with can be filtered down by primary and secondary technical skills, salary requirements, remote preferences and experience level. Alongside this, we can see that people on cord are 'active' and ready to switch roles. Being able to detail our exact requirements and be presented with people that are both looking for work and that match those requirements means the likelihood of getting a positive response back is much higher. cord gives us the granularity we need to find someone that's a good fit for us.
More replies, less time
Once I've found someone that I think might be a good fit, I can reach out to them using a pre-built message template which also allows people to book in with me. Because we're reaching out to active people that are a close fit for our roles, our positive response rate from Engineers is 45% - much higher than we might expect from outreach done on other platforms. To add to this, people respond quicker, I can send a message in the morning and have an interview scheduled for the afternoon. This saves a lot of time when compared to hiring using a recruitment agency - cord removes the intermediary.
Hiring good people
I recommend cord to anyone that's hiring in a similar fashion to us, it cuts out all of the things I dislike about recruitment and keeps us dead-set on our main goal - finding good people. We've been able to open up our talent pool and hire outside of the UK while also making our process more efficient and keeping costs down.