Talent Insight

A fuller understanding for better-informed business decisions.

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Talent Insight enables better decision-making by providing critical evidence about the talent market. Our team gathers real-time data from a variety of data sources and relevant talent pools on hiring, locations, employer brand, compensation, and more. We uncover hidden insights through confidential interviews with hard-to-reach talent to give your talent strategy a competitive edge.

Why choose Armstrong Craven as your talent insights partner?

With over 30 years of delivering bespoke intelligence to major global organizations, Armstrong Craven's Insight & Talent Analytics team gathers and evaluates data from diverse sources using traditional methods and cutting-edge TI tools powered by AI and ML.

  • We have an in-depth knowledge of key industries around the world.
  • We go beyond the data and make it our business to keep abreast of trends and challenges in your markets.
  • We identify and track significant players and emerging talent.
  • We gather the personal perspectives of influential figures and put this knowledge to work for our clients.
  • Our channels and methods provide insights into markets that might take months to gather by traditional means. 
  • You don’t just get the inside track - you get it faster and more cost-effectively

What is Talent Insight?

Talent Insight projects answer critical questions about talent using external labour market data, to influence key business decisions.

Our unique primary research approach to talent insight gathers up-to-the-minute data from highly relevant talent pools to gain sensitive, confidential market information on hiring, locations, organisation structure, employer brand, reputation, compensation and benefits.

Our intelligence adds excellent value to any talent acquisition strategy, but we go further than just analysing data. We talk to the people within the sector. Informal channels enable us to obtain strategic and unique insights unavailable from other sources.

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Our approach to Talent Insight

Insights

No one-size-fits-all talent insight exists. Our experienced researchers and analysts create an insight project tailored to your unique business challenges and talent strategy.

Data Gathering

We combine traditional market intelligence analysis and digital data-gathering techniques with people intelligence to build a three-dimensional picture of each market’s particular challenges, opportunities, trends and prospects.

Evaluation & Analysis

We gather, sift and evaluate intelligence from the public domain and online sources. Our service also adds personal market insight from those involved in and with the target market.

Final Report

We work alongside you to compare and interpret our findings to provide you with unique and unparalleled intelligence, insight and strategic recommendations for your business.

Common Talent Insight Projects

Assessing the size and location of talent hubs in relation to specific skills and/or geographies, including potential growth projections. Primarily based on secondary research.

Identification and/or ranking of locations as potential hubs for specific skill sets. Comprising both primary and secondary talent research to assess candidate availability, salary costs, competitors, commuting trends, ease of hiring, cost of living, competition for talent.

Analysis of competitor operations relating to business units, functions, and geographies. Delivered via primary and secondary talent research, this talent insight allows clients to understand, and benchmark against, their competitors in the marketplace.

The sourcing of bespoke and highly specific salary data relating to roles, functions, skills, industries and geographies. This talent insight brings together published secondary data with primary data gathered via interviews and online survey methods.

A solution to help you understand how you are viewed in the market by the talent you need to attract. These talent research projects are often used improve talent attraction or to counter attrition. They help you to understand niche, in-demand or hard-to-find talent pools and provide clarity ahead of recruitment activity on how best to engage and get interest from these people.

Talent research to uncover the key factors that motivate individuals within specific functions, or geographies. Covering remuneration, job-seeking habits, career motivating factors, employers of choice, perception of client, openness to relocation and future opportunities. These insight projects are predominantly delivered via primary research, interviews and online surveys.

These talent insight projects involve charting and analysis of organisational structures within specific organisations to help feed into your own org design strategies. Based on primary and secondary research, they include the analysis of structures and organisational design trends - best practice, pitfalls to avoid and how you compare to your competitors.

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Working alongside leading TA & HR professionals

General Electric
London Stock Exchange
BBC
abbvie
accenture
SAP
AngloAmerican
ASDA
AstraZeneca
avanade
babcock
Balfour Beatty
BANK OF AMERICA
Bloomberg
bp
Canon
Capita
EATON
facebook
GlaxoSmithKline
IMI
intuit
JnJ
Kelloggs
LOTUS
MARS Petcare
MERCK
mimecast
Pearson
Providence
Schneider Electric
serco
Specsavers
stryker
coop
vmware
vodafone
Armstrong Craven take a different approach to executive search and talent planning and are a great supplier for a business like us who is moving to direct sourcing. They are working with us to help us to achieve these aims through providing intelligence as well as candidates.
Global Pharmaceutical Firm Global Recruitment Partner
We have used Armstrong Craven on a number of occasions now for executive research at the very highest levels and on each and every occasion they have helped us locate the right candidate, all of whom have gone on to make a fundamental contribution to the health and development of our businesses.
Liquid Plastics Ltd Managing Director
Your Insights capability accelerated our knowledge transfer. Without partnering with Armstrong Craven, it would have taken us a year to get to the same point in our understanding of the market.
Global Biotech Director, Global Talent Acquistition

Case Studies

Project Examples

Succession Planning for a C-Suite Role in the CFO Group

Our work with a global bank to improve the bench strength and introducing talent from underrepresented groups in the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) group.

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Addressing the Gender Imbalance in Tech

There’s a shift underway - corporate gender diversity conversations have progressed from how to increase the number of females in historically male-dominated functions/industries to how to achieve true gender parity at every level of organisations. There’s a long way to go. 

 
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Hiring Highly Skilled Talent in an Unfamiliar Location

Discover how we discreetly found talent for 10 key positions and built a talent pipeline and map for future hiring.

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Talent Research into the Effectiveness of a Leadership Team

Our work in the field marketing industry, focussed on identifying the drivers of high-performance and benchmarking leadership performance against competitors.

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Benchmarking HR Analytics Activity and Strategy Against the Market

A case study on our work with a global energy major to generate better insight into its HR analytics.

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