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Nic H.
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What do you like best about cord?

What I like most about Cord is how easy it makes the hiring process. It's clear, concise, and has saved us a significant amount of money compared to traditional recruitment costs. The platform is excellent at helping us sift through candidates efficiently, and the support team has been great throughout the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

I haven't yet found anything that I dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cord is solving the challenge of finding and hiring top talent without the need for expensive recruitment agencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

cord Overview

What is cord?

cord is a hiring tool that enables companies to fill their pipelines with active people, and make direct hires. This is made possible by giving you access to thousands of responsive, pre-qualified engineers that you can message over a simple person-to-person messaging tool. High response rates make sourcing on cord as simple as sending a message. At cord, we are on a mission to increase the number of people doing their best work by enabling the most simple transaction on earth - a conversation - to happen between someone and their future colleagues. Sourcing is as simple as sending a message, highly responsive candidates give you your time back. On average, 44% of messages sent by companies result in an interview. By making hiring feel more like starting a conversation, cord lowers the barriers to entry and enables whole teams to be built that wouldn’t otherwise exist.

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Streamline your sourcing Thousands of highly responsive engineers make sourcing as simple as sending a message. Every person on cord is pre-verified, experienced and actively looking for work.


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Year Founded
2016
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London, GB
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49 employees on LinkedIn®
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Our mission is to increase the number of people doing their best work.cord is a messaging tool that enables the most simple transaction on earth - a conversation - to happen between someone and their future colleagues. Every message is direct and instant. All the information is relevant and transparent. It feels natural, as if it was always meant to be that way.Underneath the hood, facilitating these conversations isn't so simple. cord is rebuilding the underlying infrastructure that underpins it all, able to handle recruiting complexity and distribute people and opportunities at scale.Hiring teams inside the world's most advanced technology companies use cord to hire, from recent Y-Combinator alumni to publicly listed technology companies.Whole teams are built on cord that wouldn't otherwise exist, inside companies whose work develops vaccines, tackles climate change and builds autonomous vehicles.


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Nic H.
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Nic H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Efficient, Cost-Effective, and User-Friendly Hiring Platform"
What I like most about Cord is how easy it makes the hiring process. It's clear, concise, and has saved us a significant amount of money compared t...
Jo H.
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Jo H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Efficient and cost-effective recruitment tool"
It's easy to navigate, you have direct contact with candidates making for a very transparent process, and the filters/streams make time to hire so ...
Sophie S.
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Sophie S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Useful and quick tool for hires"
Cord allows me to access a pool of active and passive candidates showing you all key information needed to find the correct hire. It is user friend...
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about cord?

Cord is very easy to use, especially for beginners. What is great about it is that it can be easily implimented and integrated with our ATS Team Tailor, so the applicants that apply through our Cord advert are added to TT once we accept a candidate's interest.

We use Cord to celebrate our diversity of our candidates through their seasonal awards and this has been great for employer branding.

While we use Cord primarily for our Tech roles, we have also used it for Finance and other related fields. We have hired candidates through Cord which goes to show it's success rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

The only downside I can see to Cord is that we cannot advertise for FTC/temporary roles. However, for our permanent roles we of course do not have this issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cord helps us keep recruitment in-house and allows us to search for a variety of candiates that we might have not of otherwise found. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Connor W.
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What do you like best about cord?

I've brought Cord into a couple of companies now, working with them in their early days and now as they seem to have really hit their stride.

From a Software Dev hiring perspective I can think of no other platform that offers as big of an ROI as Cord does. It's also great to see them expanding into other verticals.

- Cord is very user friendly and is quick to implement

- A lot of integrations available

- Streamlines your workflow, allowing you to spend an hour a day on it, each day. Whilst getting the same value as you'd get from spending most of your day on other platforms.

- Great communication between the candidates and your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

If I had to mark Cord down at all it would be for a couple of restrictions in the way Job Adverts are handled, etc.

The other comment I would make, is if you're a company that will be focusing on IT Support roles, and you only have the budget for one avenue. Cord may not be the best bet right now. They're clearly in the early stages of expanding this area, and we see some real promise. However the candidate pool isn't large right now, and the quality for IT Support has a lot of peaks and dips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've brought Cord on as the initial building block of an internal recruitment function for a small, but rapidly growing MSP.

The speed of responding to candidates is the main attraction here, as Cord won't take valuable time and resources away from other internal projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jo H.
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What do you like best about cord?

It's easy to navigate, you have direct contact with candidates making for a very transparent process, and the filters/streams make time to hire so much quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

It's not a dislike I think it just needs adjusting - I don't find the % compatability of candidates and roles particularly accurate, but this could be based on information entered into Cord. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

Significantly reducing cost and time to hire Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Owen F.
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What do you like best about cord?

Cord is pretty cool! I love the customisable streams that notify you as soon as a candidate matching your requirements becomes "active".

You can keep the search strings as broad or as niche as you like.

Overall the tool is very easy to use and you can cut through the noise an get access to amazing tech talent fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

Sometimes the product is a bit glitchy, especially the inbox but generally, it's good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

There is a lot of noise on LinkedIn and other such sites, Cord cuts through this helping you access really good talent quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sophie S.
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What do you like best about cord?

Cord allows me to access a pool of active and passive candidates showing you all key information needed to find the correct hire. It is user friendly and easy to train up new members of the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

I have recently found there are more contractors on Cord that aren't looking for permenany recuitment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time to hire is quicker due to the easy access to a wide pool of candidates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sam M.
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What do you like best about cord?

The user experience is great, not much to learn or know how to use it just works plus the candidates are always very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

I prefer to use the sourcing tool as you can really focus on your search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hiring technical talent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about cord?

Ease of reaching out to people, response time of candidates and love how people can also reach out for information - so it works both ways! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

The only thing that I find tedious is the AI responses that cord generates. Often it takes a while to generate, then sometimes the information is not correct in the response that it has created. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ease of usage and efficiency saves me a lot of time. People respond quicker than they do on other platforms such as LinkedIn, meaning that my time to source/interview/ hire is quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about cord?

There are a lot of things but the headline aspect is Cord helped us hire great talent at quick pace with a seemless process. The platform is easy to use and you are speaking to people who are looking for jobs so it takes out that challenge. The customer support team is also excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

It's hard to name any, you pay a good price and get a great service from the product so a 10/10 for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping to hire people that are not always on LinkedIn or applying for jobs on traditional job boards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about cord?

I love that you have access to a bigger pool of talent. Rather than reaching out to talents, talent can reach out and express their interest in a role. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

Seems a lot of profiles are on the software engineering side, with little profiles in the other IT aspects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving the problem of access to talents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ben D.
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What do you like best about cord?

- The ability to reach (and be reached by) highly engaged and relevant candidates across a wide spectrum of areas.

- An excellent sourcing tool with a high degree of customisation.

- Employer branding features

- Reasonable pricing

- Great CS and AM teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about cord?

- You won't get the kind of volume of applications that some other hiring platforms can provide, but on Cord the focus is on quality and relevance to the role you're looking to fill. The team are working on this and recently opened the platform up to non-technical roles to provide even more value to companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is cord solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Hiring the best fit candidates, doing it quickly and cheaply. We have made a number of great quality hires through Cord who otherwise we might never have come across. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.