Hiring in under a month and increasing our response rate to 45%

Our usual hiring method was cold outreach on LinkedIn. However, we would often spend time waiting for responses, and would sometimes not receive any response at all. For the responses that we did get there was often a problem with not having the Engineer’s technical skills and expecting salary upfront, which meant that the time spent sourcing and reaching out was wasted.

On cord, we’re easily able to see that Engineers are active and ready to switch roles. On top of this, we can see just how responsive an Engineer is which makes the likelihood of getting a response much higher. As well as being able to see who is active, I can see someone’s primary and secondary technical skills, previous experience and salary requirements. This makes it much easier to screen Engineers and decide whether I want to reach out to them.

Efficient messaging

cord’s message templates were incredibly useful. Writing outreach messages isn’t something that comes very natural to me, so to have our hiring manager write out these templates that I could then send out to Engineers made the process of reaching out to a candidate much more comfortable on my end. The templates could very quickly be tweaked and personalised to make sure our outreach was as targeted as possible.

Usually, we would expect responses within the day, a huge markup against the delays and ghosting we experienced on LinkedIn. Once we were conversing with an Engineer, the instant communication between us meant that there were no delays in the hiring process and we could move forward with an Engineer that we liked incredibly quickly.

cord’s UI was very user-friendly, allowing ease of use for not only myself but the rest of the team who utilised cord. There’s no abundance of complex options or menus - everything is ‘right there’. Its simplicity made the process of sifting through candidate profiles an easy and enjoyable experience.