cord
Making our first hire in less than 3 weeks
"cord is a much more economical way of hiring while giving you better quality engineers than job boards"
60%
Positive response rate from engineers on cord20x
Reduction in cost per hire compared to previous spend with recruiterscord usage
1 direct hire
12 people sourced
1 position
1 user
Kings County
About B Live
B Live provide leading media, entertainment, sports, retail, and fashion brands with software and services that transform how video content is delivered to their viewers, with clients including the likes of Apple, Amazon and Dior.
View websiteView cord profileThe team, distributed in and around the greater NYC area, creates video-centric digital experiences, building and supporting direct-to-consumer (D2C) apps for web and mobile, including connected TVs supporting AVOD and TVOD businesses with a heavy emphasis on live streaming and live, shoppable eCommerce.
Our Goal
We had a Developer leave the team recently - we joined cord looking to quickly hire an Engineer with React experience to fill our Front End Developer position.
Our Situation
No right solution
We'd previously used recruiters when hiring and found the experience to be inconsistent, and regardless of the outcome, there was a large sunk cost in the process.
Before joining cord, I tried posting our role on job boards and Linkedin. Initial impressions were good, but soon after I found that people became unresponsive to our outreach, with even live leads going cold.
Using cord
Accuracy built-in
Using the stream filters, cord allowed me to dial in our search to our exact requirements - I was able to specify technical skills, experience level, salary, location and spoken language so that all of the people I was presented with after were a good fit for what we were looking for.
This saved us time down the road, allowing us to avoid experiences where we'd find out in the 3rd interview that someone was incompatible with our requirements.
More conversations
Once I'd found someone who I wanted to have a conversation with, I could reach out with a personalised message template - during our time on cord we had an average positive response rate to our messaging of 60%. On top of this, we also had people reaching out to us directly after finding our profile.
Time and cost-efficient
We managed to make a hire for our position less than a month after signing up, so not only did cord save us time when compared to a typical agency recruitment process, it kept our costs down too. Our cost per hire compared to hiring through a recruiter was 20x less.