Solutions | Skills Based Hiring
Shift to Skills Based Hiring Practices
Use Horsefly to locate hot spots for the skills you need to hire — anywhere in the world.

Skills Based hiring isn’t a fad — it’s the future.
For a skills based hiring strategy to become a skills based hiring solution, hiring teams need to understand what underlying skills for specific roles can be found in unexpected places. With Horsefly, unlock new possibilities by searching for talent by their skills first.
Unlock Global Skill Hotspots: Target Talent With Accuracy Using Horsefly
Use Horsefly to precisely locate global hotspots for the critical skills your organization needs—anywhere in the world. Our advanced talent intelligence platform empowers organizations to revolutionize their hiring approach by identifying untapped skill concentrations across diverse geographic regions, industries, and candidate pools.
Whether you're seeking specialized technical capabilities, emerging digital competencies, or specific industry expertise, Horsefly's sophisticated data analytics provide unparalleled visibility into global skill distributions.
Horsefly transforms your talent acquisition from reactive to strategic by enabling location-specific, skills-first hiring that aligns perfectly with your organization's immediate needs and long-term objectives in an increasingly skills-driven global economy.
Skills Based Recruiting: The Future of Talent Acquisition
Skills based hiring isn't merely a passing trend—it represents the fundamental future of effective recruitment strategies. For a skills based recruiting approach to transform from conceptual strategy into actionable solution, hiring teams must develop nuanced understanding of how underlying skills for specific roles can be discovered in unexpected talent pools and non-traditional candidate backgrounds.
With Horsefly's advanced analytics platform, organizations can unlock entirely new possibilities by reversing the traditional hiring paradigm—searching for talent based on their verified skills first, rather than relying solely on conventional indicators like job titles, degrees, or previous employers.
Data You Can Trust
Interactive Global Skills Heatmaps
- Visualize talent supply and demand geographically across diverse markets
- Precisely locate concentrations of millions of specific skills
- Conduct sophisticated market comparisons between different regions
- Utilize dynamic visualization tools to identify optimal sourcing locations for specialized skill sets
- Discover talent pools that may be overlooked through traditional recruiting approaches
Predictive Skills Gap Analysis
- Proactively identify emerging shortages within your industry vertical
- Anticipate future skills gaps before they impact your hiring capabilities
- Combine skills-based hiring data analysis with comprehensive insights
- Draw intelligence from both internal organizational data and external market sources
- Create a complete picture of your skills ecosystem for strategic planning
Diversity and Compensation Intelligence
- Access location-specific salary benchmarks for particular job roles and skill sets
- Review detailed gender distribution breakdowns across positions and skills
- Develop more inclusive hiring practices with multi-dimensional diversity data
- Ensure competitive compensation structures that attract diverse talent
- Target candidates with the precise skills needed for organizational success

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 Data
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.
“Horsefly’s data is seen as an essential tool to enable increased diversity of talent pools and a clearer understanding of the labor market. This will help the Home Office identify locations to source essential and hard to find skills.”
— Talent Acquisition Leader,
UK Home Office