cord
Making 7+ direct hires and tripling our ROI
"cord gives us access to plenty of good candidates and the quality of people is great - it's been a really positive experience for us"
7+
Hires made since joining cord3x
ROI within first quarter on cordcord usage
7 direct hires
20 positions
5 users
Greater London
About Civica
Civica is one of Britain’s largest software companies, with operations in the UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, Canada and North America. The company is focused on building software that helps sustain and enhance public services around the world, as well as improve outcomes for communities globally. To date, Civica's software is used by over 2.5 million and has benefited to over 90 million people.
View websiteView cord profileOur Goal
We wanted to find a tool that gave us direct access to a new pool of quality, active candidates to help us fill our wide range of technical roles.
Our Situation
Dealing with low response rates
As a global software company, Civica's continuous growth is contingent to filling a wide variety of technical roles in order to support its main areas of operation - software, managed services and consultancy. We hire for various roles across Development, DevOps and Data with many of them being remote-focused.
Prior to using cord, we were using LinkedIn and job boards, both advertising and searching through data bases, but it became increasingly challenging as response rates and candidate engagement dropped. We decided to assess different tools and that's when we came across cord.
Using cord
Responsive, quality engineers
Due to engineers on cord being active and ready to switch roles, one in every other message I send to engineers results in a positive response, because people are active and ready to have those conversations, the process is much quicker than the likes of LinkedIn and other recruitment tools. The quality of candidates on cord is also a major highlight, I'm easily able to fill roles in a short amount of time because I don't have to sift through profiles which aren't a good match for the roles I'm hiring for.
Communication made simple
One of my favourite things about cord is the tool's simplicity in terms of use, communication and the features provided to curate candidate searches. When posting a new position on cord, we immediately get access to a stream of engineers with matching salary bands, skill sets and remote working preferences - this means we can instantly reach out to relevant engineers, using a personalised message template.
If I have questions on a certain candidate and want to share their credentials with the team, I can easily save and share engineer profiles which allows for enhanced cross-team collaboration. This is particularly advantageous to our hiring process within a remote working environment and allows us to make better hiring decisions as a team.
Fantastic set-up and support
Fantastic set-up and support
The team at cord made the set-up process easy and straightforward, providing support in setting up our positions and helping us build tailored candidate searches. Whenever we need support, the cord team are on hand to help us continuously optimise our hiring processes.