Talent Radar · May 2026 — GCC hiring slows in BFSI, AI roles up 14%.

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The numbers behind India's GCC talent market.

Four reports, four cadences, one underlying database: twenty years of placement intelligence, indexed by sector and city, updated every time we close a mandate.

Updated May 2026

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Placements indexed
4,000+
GCCs covered
880+
Reports a year
17
Subscribers
12k+
Live · May 2026 Bengaluru · Senior
Velocity
+18%
VP comp δ
22%
Notice avg
68d
Our Reports

Four reports, one database.

Each report reads the same placement record from a different angle. The Talent Radar tracks velocity month-on-month. The Hiring Pulse goes deep on one sector each quarter. The Compensation Index keeps the comp band honest. The State of GCC Talent is the annual benchmark.

Monthly
May '26
Issue 41 · Latest
Talent Radar
A monthly read on hiring velocity, role mix, and where the senior signal is moving.
Twelve charts, one observation page, and the data tables behind them. Published the first Wednesday of every month.
Velocity index By sector By city Role mix
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Quarterly
Q2 '26
Pharma R&D · Latest
Hiring Pulse
A quarterly sector deep-dive — one industry, one full read.
Forty pages of placement data, attrition trends, role-by-role comp bands, and the questions that come up in every search inside that sector.
Sector-deep Attrition data Comp bands Role-by-role
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Monthly
May '26
IC4–IC6 · Latest
Compensation Index
A monthly salary benchmark by role, level, and sector — built from real offers, not survey claims.
P25–P50–P75 bands, year-on-year movement, and the band gaps that catch most internal calibration discussions off guard.
Real offers P25–P75 Level deltas YoY shift
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Annual
2026
120 pages · Flagship
State of GCC Talent
The annual benchmark — twelve months of data, every chart we couldn't fit anywhere else.
The flagship publication. Published every February, free to read, designed to be the one document a CHRO can hand to their board without footnotes.
120 pages All sectors All cities Annual benchmark
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How the work gets done

What makes the data credible.

Most GCC market reports cite the same secondary sources. Ours doesn't. Here's where the numbers actually come from — and the rules we follow before any of it gets published.

  • 01 · Source
    Placement data, not survey data
    Every salary band, every notice period, every counter-offer rate comes from a mandate we ran. Twenty years of placements, indexed and queryable.
  • 02 · Coverage
    880+ GCCs across four sectors
    Tech, Pharma, BFSI, ER&D. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, NCR. We name the limits of what we cover — and don't publish on what we don't know well.
  • 03 · Cadence
    Updated against the calendar, not the news cycle
    Monthly velocity. Quarterly sector deep-dives. Annual benchmark in February. The cadence is fixed — what changes is what the data is showing.
  • 04 · Editorial line
    Sachith reviews every observation before it ships
    Charts can mislead. Twenty years of practitioner judgement sits behind every "this matters because…" line that turns a number into a read.
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Are these reports really free?
Yes — every report is free to download with a work email. We use the subscription to keep the audience real and to send you the next issue when it ships. We don't sell the list, we don't share it with partners, and the unsubscribe link is at the bottom of every email.
How is this different from Zinnov, NASSCOM, or Mercer reports?
Those are all good sources. The difference is the dataset — ours is placement data, theirs is survey data or aggregated employer reporting. We see what offers actually got accepted, what counter-offers happened, who walked away and why. That's a different read than what companies say about their own hiring.
Can I use the data in my own reports or board decks?
Yes, with attribution. The reports are designed to be cited — every chart has a clear source line and every observation is dated. We ask that you don't reproduce more than three charts from a single report without getting in touch first.
Do you cover sectors outside Tech, Pharma, BFSI, and ER&D?
Not at the moment. These four are where our placement data is dense enough to publish from with confidence. Healthcare and industrial are growing — we expect to add at least one to the coverage list in 2027.
I'd like a custom cut of the data for my GCC. Is that possible?
Yes — custom data extracts and sector deep-dives are part of our Intelligence & Advisory work. Send a brief through the form below and we'll come back with what's feasible and what it costs.
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