Solutions | Competitive Talent Intelligence
Let Your Competitors Help Drive Your Organization Forward with Competitive Talent Intelligence
Use Horsefly to eliminate blind spots, benchmark your workforce capabilities, and gain critical insights into competitors' talent strategies.

Sophisticated Analytics for Compelling Competitive Research
For organizations wanting to be forward-thinking, gaining visibility into competitors' talent strategies requires sophisticated analytics that go beyond public information. With Horsefly's company movement analytics, leaders can uncover critical intelligence about talent practices, retention strategies, and skill development initiatives, eliminating strategic blind spots that could give competitors the upper hand.
Turn a Challenge into an Opportunity with Horsefly's Competitor Research Solutions
Our advanced analytics platform empowers you to track competitor talent flows, benchmark workforce capabilities, and analyze organizational structures to develop talent strategies that maintain your competitive edge.
Our competitor research solutions allow you to:
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Gather comprehensive competitor talent strategy intelligence - Move beyond basic LinkedIn monitoring to gain deep insights into competitors' hiring patterns, target talent pools, and retention challenges.
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Benchmark your workforce capabilities against competitors with precision - Compare your roles to industry peers to gauge market competitiveness. Identify gaps in critical capabilities and develop targeted strategies to build a competitive advantage through your talent practices.
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Uncover hidden talent pools and strategic recruiting opportunities - Identify overlooked skill sets and talent sources that your competitors haven't yet discovered. Gain first-mover advantage in emerging talent markets before your competition recognizes their value.
Data You Can Trust
Talent Flow Intelligence
Track the movement of professionals between your organization, competitors, and the broader market with unprecedented clarity.
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Talent flow tracking: Monitor talent movement across organizations with daily updates on critical role transitions
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Hidden talent pool discovery: Identify underutilized sources of talent that competitors are overlooking
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Career pathway analysis: Understand retention patterns and career advancement opportunities within the jobs/skills you require

Strategic Compensation Intelligence
Decode competitors' compensation strategies and total rewards approaches with multi-dimensional analysis. Our rewards analytics provide insights that basic salary survey data cannot deliver.
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Skills salary alignment pattern detection: Align salary based on the skills you’re looking for, based on real-time salary information from live jobs and salary aggregation tools. For example, you can see how the salary changes based on Java vs Java and Python and AWS
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Geographic strategy analysis: Identify location-based salary variations that reveal global talent strategies
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Role valuation trends: Track how competitors value different positions and skills through their compensation practices
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Talent pool factors: With our Difficulty to Hire score plus a breakdown of experience, you are able to benchmark more accurately
The Horsefly Advantage
Identify the best global markets for sustainable business growth and business scenario planning.
Unmatched Global Data
The widest global data reach in the industry, covering more countries, cities, and talent pools than any other platform. Make truly informed global decisions with complete market visibility.

Incredibly Granular
Our platform integrates the most diverse data sources available, combining job boards, professional networks, government statistics, and proprietary datasets for the most accurate and detailed view of global talent markets.
Instant
Insights
User-friendly interface designed with decision-makers in mind. Transform complex data into actionable intelligence with just a few clicks. Export presentation-ready reports to share with stakeholders.
Real-time Updates
All data is refreshed and validated daily, ensuring your scenario planning is based on the most current market conditions and emerging trends, not outdated assumptions.
Success Stories
Global Financial Services Provider:
Challenge
Faced high dependency on expensive agency recruitment and lacked critical insights into competitor talent strategies, creating significant cost pressures and strategic blind spots.
Horsefly Solution
Provided comprehensive market data insights and competitive talent intelligence, including talent flow analysis, organizational structure mapping, and compensation benchmarking.
Impact
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Dramatically reduced agency fees from £800,000 to just £26,000 through a better understanding of competitor talent sources
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Enhanced strategic influence of the talent acquisition team through market and competitor insights
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Improved hiring manager conversations with data-backed competitor intelligence
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Transformed the recruitment team from tactical resource to strategic advisors
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Gained critical visibility into previously hidden competitor talent strategies and movements

Acorn by Synergie:
Challenge
Needed to differentiate their RPO services in a crowded marketplace where competitors offered similar solutions without clear value differentiation.
Horsefly Solution
Delivered comprehensive competitor analytics and market insights that provided unique strategic value beyond standard RPO offerings.
Impact
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Successfully differentiated from competitors through superior talent intelligence capabilities
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Strengthened market position by offering clients unique analytics not available from other providers
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Enabled clients to make more informed strategic workforce decisions based on competitive insights
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Developed a deeper understanding of competitor strategies to enhance their own service positioning
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Added significant value through competitive talent intelligence that clients couldn't access elsewhere

Virgin Media:
Challenge
Required a more proactive approach to talent identification and acquisition in a highly competitive market where traditional reactive methods were insufficient.
Horsefly Solution
Provided comprehensive market mapping and competitor analysis with detailed insights into talent movements, organizational structures, and retention strategies.
Impact
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Enhanced talent acquisition strategies through detailed competitor insights and movement tracking
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Improved engagement with specific talent groups based on competitor retention pattern analysis
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Better aligned recruitment initiatives with business objectives using competitive talent intelligence
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Strengthened workforce planning through competitor organizational structure mapping
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Enabled proactive identification and response to competitor talent movements before they impacted the business

“I needed to be able to not only provide evidence of what the skill set looks like today, but also come up with a series of related questions, such as: What if we work in this or that location? What difference would that make? What’s the impact on compensation? What’s the impact on this skill’s availability? It’s critical just to be able to get a really good set of data that enables us to keep going back and asking sort of fresh questions of data.”
— Workforce Planning Leader,
Ørsted
Prepare Today for Tomorrow's Challenges
Whether you're planning for expansion, facing potential challenges, or optimizing your global talent strategy, Horsefly's solutions for forecasting and scenario planning for business provide the intelligence you need to make confident decisions in an uncertain world.