
Talent & Skill Insights
In strategic recruiting planning, it is becoming increasingly important to base decisions not only on gut feeling, but also on valid market data: How available are certain skills? How willing is the target group to change jobs? What compensation levels are realistic? And which regions or industries are actually talent hotspots?
There are countless tools and data sources – but sheer volume of data doesn't replace context. fortalent collaborates with leading providers of current market data and combines this information with a practical perspective: professionally aggregated, realistically interpreted, and tailored to your specific questions.
Benefits of top-notch market data
The following data points are key signals for a strategic talent strategy:
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Hiring data: Salary and compensation trends, demand volume by location, demand volume by function, time-to-hire metrics
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Supply and demand: Candidate availability by skill set, geographical talent distribution, emerging talent markets
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Skill data: In-demand skills by function, skill gap analysis, emerging skill trends, skill taxonomy and mapping, skill adjacencies
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Employer Brand: Corporate reputation indicators, sentiment analysis of employee reviews, competitor brand comparisons, employer value proposition, employee engagement and perception
We work with leading data providers and deliver aggregated analyses tailored to your company:
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Executive summaries as a basis for decision-making in personnel planning and budgeting.
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Overview of candidate markets (supply/demand, skill availability, competitive environment)
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Compensation insights (bandwidths, package structures, market realism)
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Willingness to change & target group readiness (what is achievable – and how?)
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Recommendations for search strategy, targeting and process design
This is how insights become a practical basis for management: for realistic hirings, convincing business cases and better decisions in recruiting.