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

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Know who you can hire before you open the role.

The people who could do this job already have one. We map where they sit, which companies hold the deepest bench, who's genuinely movable, and what it would take, so you brief a search you already know can close. Drawn from the same placement record behind 2,350+ placements into India's GCCs.

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Talent-mapping engagements run for GCC clients
650+
Candidates in our mapped database
631k+
The Problem

You open the role, then find out the talent isn't there.

A search starts with an assumption: the people we need are out there, and enough of them will move. Sometimes that's true. Often the pool is thinner than anyone admitted at kickoff, concentrated in two competitors, and locked in by equity that doesn't vest for another year.

You find that out in week eight, after the role's been live, the brief's been to market, and the shortlist won't fill. The cost wasn't the search fee. It was the quarter you spent learning the market the hard way.

Mapping moves that learning to the front. Before a single approach, you see how deep the pool really is, where it sits, who's reachable, and what moves them. So the brief you write is one the market can actually answer.

Most of the people who could do a senior GCC role aren't open to moving in any given quarter. The map tells you which ones are.
From our market mapping across India GCCs.
Our Approach

Three workstreams. Sequenced.

A map answers three questions in order: who exists, who's reachable, and what would move them. We work the market the same way every time.

01 · Locate
Where the talent actually sits
We map every company in your city and sector that builds the capability you need, and how deep each bench runs. You see where the pool is concentrated, which competitors hold the most of it, and how big the real universe is, not the LinkedIn headcount.
02 · Qualify
Who's genuinely movable
A name in the universe isn't a candidate. We read tenure, vesting cliffs, recent moves, and the signals that say someone's settled or restless, then mark who's reachable now, who's worth a watch, and who won't move at any number this year.
03 · Read the triggers
What it would actually take
For the movable few, we read what moves them: scope, the manager, comp step, a stalled promotion, a reorg. So when the search opens, your first approach speaks to the real reason this person might say yes, not a generic pitch.
A Typical Engagement

How a map gets built.

Four phases. A map on a single senior role lands in about three weeks, a multi-role build for a new function runs to five or six.

Phase 01
Week 1
Frame
We define the capability, the cities, and the comparator companies. You tell us the role you're about to open, and we frame the universe around it before anyone goes to market.
Phase 02
Weeks 1–3
Map
We build the universe, company by company, level by level, and size each bench. Where our placement data already holds the read, we use it, where it doesn't, we map fresh.
Phase 03
Weeks 3–5
Qualify
We layer in movability and trigger points, who's reachable now, who's settled, and why. You get the map with the intelligence layered on top of every name.
Phase 04
Week 5+
Hand over
We walk your team through the map and the honest read on feasibility. If it converts into a search, the mapping carries straight into it, no restart, no lost ground.
What This Changes

The numbers that move.

Aggregates across mapping engagements, 2024 to 2025. Not promises, what tends to happen when the market is mapped before the search opens, not during it.

650+
Talent-mapping engagements run for GCC clients
Mapping engagements to date
631k+
Candidates in our mapped database, the pool every map is drawn from
Mapped candidate database
82%
Offer-acceptance rate on the searches that follow a map
Offer-to-acceptance
Client Outcome

When the map said hold the role for a quarter.

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Case Study · BFSI GCC · Hyderabad
Engagement
Market map · risk & quant leadership · 2024

"The map showed the entire reachable pool sat in three firms, all mid-vesting. Recruise told us to wait one quarter for the cliffs to pass. We did, and the role closed in five weeks instead of stalling for six months."

HD
Head of Talent Acquisition
Global BFSI GCC · Hyderabad
650+
Mapping engagements run for GCC clients
2 wks
To a calibrated shortlist once the role opened
82%
Offer-acceptance on the search
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Other Services

If this is part of a bigger problem.

A map is most useful when it feeds the next decision, a search, a comp call, a build plan. Most mapping engagements either fed or followed one of these.

Placement
Executive Search
When the map says the role can close, the obvious next step, a retained, off-market search that carries straight on from the mapping.
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Intelligence & Advisory
Compensation Benchmarking
The map says who you could hire, the benchmark says what it costs. We tell you what the role actually pays by sector and city.
Explore Benchmarking
Intelligence & Advisory
Strategic Workforce Planning
When one map is part of a wider build, the workforce the centre needs over two to three years, sequenced against supply.
Explore Planning
Managed Services
GCC Set-Up & Transformation
Choosing a city for a new centre? The map shows you where the talent you'll need actually lives, before you sign a lease.
Explore GCC Set-Up
Intelligence & Advisory
Build Brands that Win Talent
If the movable talent sits with competitors who outshine you, the picture senior candidates hold of your centre is the thing to change.
Explore Employer Branding
Read the Thinking

Intelligence on where talent moves.

The reports, the weekly read, and the data behind every map we build. All free to read.

Report
Where senior GCC talent is concentrated, and who's moving
The live read on where the deepest benches sit across India's GCCs, which functions are tightest, and what's pulling leaders between them.
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The Signal
The team that became hireable the day a competitor reorged
A weekly read on what's loosening senior talent across India's GCCs, the reorgs, the vesting cliffs, the trigger points worth watching.
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Pay & Compensation
What actually moves a settled senior leader
The trigger points behind senior moves, scope, manager, comp step, ranked by how often each one tips the decision, from our placement record.
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Frequently Asked

Questions we get asked.

If you don't see what you're looking for, the form below is the fastest route. Most enquiries get a response within one working day.

How is a map different from just sourcing candidates?
Sourcing finds people who might apply. A map shows you the whole universe for a role, settled and unsettled, sized by company and level, with a read on who's reachable and what moves them. It's a feasibility picture you use to decide whether and how to run the search, before anyone is approached.
Do you contact the people on the map?
Not during the mapping itself. The map is intelligence, built from our data and the public market, and we don't approach anyone until you decide to run a search. If it converts, the approaches happen then, on background, the way we run any senior search.
What if the map says the role can't be filled?
Then you've saved a quarter and a search fee. Where the reachable pool is too thin, we tell you, and we'll usually show you what would change it, a wider city, a reshaped brief, a different level, or a window when vesting cliffs pass. The honest read is the value.
How current is the data behind a map?
We build from our placement record, which refreshes as we close hires, plus a live read of the public market at the time of the engagement. Movability shifts quickly, so a map is a read on the quarter you commission it, and we date it clearly.
Can a map inform where we locate a new centre?
Yes, and it's one of the most useful times to run one. We map the capability you'll need across candidate cities and show you where the bench is deep, where it's contested, and what each location would cost you in availability. That feeds straight into a GCC set-up decision.
What does a mapping engagement cost?
A single-role map is priced as a fixed fee against the scope. A multi-role build for a new function or location is sized separately. Where it converts into a search, the mapping fee folds into the search engagement, so you don't pay for the same work twice.
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Tell us the role you're about to open.

Give us the capability, the city, and the level. We'll come back with a first read on how deep the pool is and how movable it looks, even if you're not ready to run the search.

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