cord
Making all of our engineering hires on cord
"I have used cord for 10 years and made hundreds of hires. "
26 days
Time to hire1 day
Sourcing and interviewing a candidate on the same daycord usage
7 direct hires
74 people sourced
2 positions
7 users
Greater London
About Legal 500
Legal 500, founded by John Pritchard in 1987, is the world's leading legal services benchmarking platform, connecting global law firms with international clients.
View websiteView cord profileAcross more than 100 countries, legal500.com delivers trusted insights through comprehensive research processes and proprietary data from 300,000+ clients and 60,000+ law firm submissions annually.
More than 150 researchers and analysts evaluate law firms against the broadest possible range of practice area competencies, industry sector expertise and client satisfaction metrics.
Legal 500 empowers buyers and sellers in the legal market to make informed decisions and achieve better outcomes through unparalleled depth of research and legal market data.
Our Goal
Legal500 is aiming to become a modern, research and data powerhouse for legal information. Technology is a key pillar and having hired a new CTO, the goal is to build out an entire engineering and data team.
Our Situation
We only had LinkedIn and were struggling to get engagement with candidates. We needed to reassess our tooling in order to hire the amount of people we needed as quickly as we needed them, cord was the obvious choice.
Using cord
Quality Candidates
By using cord, we could instantly access hundreds of vetted, high quality candidates who were very responsive.
Reducing our time to hire
Hires that would previously have taken months were made within a few weeks on cord. Our senior engineering hires took on average 26 days.
Making multiple hires
All of our 7 engineering hires came from cord. I have personally used cord for 10 years and have made hundreds of hires from it.