11+ direct hires, 60% response rate

"The quality of people on cord is really great - around 90% of the people I've sourced have been the right fit for our roles."

Magda Puczyńska , Talent Acquisition Specialist at Vonage

11+

Engineering hires made through cord directly

60%

positive response rate

cord usage

11 direct hires

217 people sourced

11 positions

4 users

Greater London

About Vonage

Vonage, a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation.

Their Communications Platform is fully programmable and allows for the integration of Video, Voice, Chat, Messaging and Verification into existing products, workflows and systems.

Vonage's fully programmable unified communications and contact center applications are built from the Vonage platform and enable companies to transform how they communicate and operate from the office or anywhere, providing enormous flexibility and ensuring business continuity.

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Our Goal

We were looking for a user-friendly tech hiring tool where we could directly engage with candidates and fill key remote roles across Europe.

Our Situation

Before joining cord, we were using LinkedIn as our primary tool to source engineers. However, we faced a few challenges such as dealing with low response rates - we would often get a low return on our outreach with very few engineers getting back to us, requiring us to double up on our sourcing outreach to get the number of people in process. Furthermore, the lack of transparency around people’s qualifications and requirements for a role made it harder to filter through the noise to source quality engineers. People would have technical skills listed on their profiles, but it wouldn’t be clear what their proficiency level with different frameworks and languages was actually like. Key information around engineer's expected salary or notice period would be missing, elongating the sourcing process and leading to miscues down the line.

Using cord

Intuitive UI/UX, efficient sourcing

cord is a really intuitive tool. Building a position stream for a role is simple and easy using the different filters I’m able to narrow down a search to fit the strict requirements we have for a position - the results provide a list of active and relevant engineers I can reach out to.

Engineer profiles are designed to feature all of the key information that matters when sourcing engineers: their primary and secondary tech skills, experience and education, but also their work eligibility and remote preferences as most of our roles are Europe-based. Quality profiles reduce time to hire

The quality of people looking for new roles on cord is really high. Typically, 90% of candidates displayed as a result of a search are a match for the role. We’ve been able to fill in multiple key positions through cord, knowing that there are quality engineers waiting for us, which saves us time on the hiring process overall. 60% response rate from engineers

On cord, engineers are actively looking for new opportunities, making them highly responsive and engaged. I’m able to make use of one of the templates provided to save time on the outreach as well as automating follow-up messages, helping us achieve an even greater return.

On average, over 60% of messages I sent to engineers receive a response, whether or not they are interested in the role. I have also been receiving inbound messages directly from engineers interested in a position which has been great for growing our candidate pipeline as well as demonstrating the employer brand we're able to share on our profile.

Our Result

We've made 11+ engineering hires through cord directly, started over 950 conversations with active engineers and reached a 60% response rate. cord helped us create an amazing flow in our sourcing and simplified our hiring process overall.

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