cord
5 quality hires in 3 months
"The ease of using cord is the biggest highlight for us"
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High quality hires in 3 months45%
Positive response rate from direct messages sent to engineerscord usage
5 direct hires
25 positions
5 users
Leicestershire
About Mindera
Mindera is a Software Consultancy that builds high performance, resilient and scalable software systems to empower global businesses. They partner with their clients to understand their product and deliver software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.
View websiteView cord profileOur Goal
We were looking for a hiring tool that would add to our hiring pipeline, giving us a reliable source of talent to help us grow Mindera as a business.
Our Situation
Hiring as a Consultancy
As a business, we are usually looking to hire Software Developers with experience using React, Java and Node.js. One of the main challenges we face is finding people that are actively looking for a new role, as well as matching them to the particular skills and technologies we use.
We joined cord so that we could easily search for people skilled in the technologies we were looking for while knowing they were active and ready to start a new position.
Using cord
Up to speed immediately
Getting set-up on cord was easy, the team had already created several pre-built streams for us to source from. Streams allow us to review the most recently active candidates on cord that fit our hiring requirements - we no longer have to spend time creating complex boolean searches hoping that we'll see the right people.
Outside of streams, the rest of cord's functionality (messaging and booking interviews) was easy to understand - our typical sourcing process now starts with us reviewing the candidates in our streams in the morning, sending out templated messages to those who best fit our roles and then fielding replies throughout the rest of the day.
Time-consuming problems don’t exist when using cord - it's great to use.
Quality, active candidates
The people we find on cord are quality compared to other sources we've used, candidates are pre-vetted and have their primary and secondary skills clearly displayed on their profile, ensuring it's easy for us to make a sourcing decision when reviewing.
Once we've found the quality people we'd like to reach out to, we message them and wait for a reply. The response rate we get on cord is around 45% - better than we get using traditional outreach methods like email and Inmails. Because people on cord are actively looking for work, we know that they are on the search for their next position and are in turn more likely to engage with our outreach.
On top of this, we've also had proactive engagement from candidates on cord, something which we aren't used to.
The engagement we get from people on cord means that our time-to-hire is massively reduced when hiring on cord.
Why we use cord
Aside from the quality and engagement we get from candidates, the biggest highlight for us is how easy it is to use. cord is a sleek and simple tool that reduces the time and effort we have to put in as hiring managers. It also does this while also giving us a great cost-per-hire. cord is less expensive than other tools we've used, and for the number of hires we've made so far this year, it's saved us an incredible amount of money.