How we helped a global defence organisation identify new industries for talent acquisition

Stratigens increased the talent pool of a global defence sector organisation by 88% by identifying new target industries for talent acquisition. This data was used to prove skills supply during government contract bids.

Our client is one of the top ten players in the world in aerospace, defence and security, with revenues of more than €10 billion.

The client problem

The business had a clear view of their internal talent pool, a good talent management strategy, a great early careers programme, good leadership development and good visibility of the gaps in their talent pool. An ageing workforce and long-term contracts meant that the client had real gaps in their senior engineering talent pool to fulfil existing contracts.

The balance between their early careers talent and their experienced talent would soon tip the wrong way. As a result, they urgently needed to understand the pool of available talent and identify whether there was an obvious place to put a regional engineering hub so they could attract and retain this experienced talent in a highly competitive market. The business needed to prove skills supply to win contracts.

The solution

Using Stratigens™ we identified the total pool for senior engineering talent (10 – 15 years’ experience) in the UK, split by specific skills type including chemical engineers, structural engineers, radar engineers etc. A total of 39 specific skills were identified and analysed across the total engineering pool in the UK. To complement this, our data science team was able to identify previous and current industries, previous and current companies and the universities from which this talent had graduated.

TESTIMONIAL

What our customers say

"Historically we would have to hire a strategy consultancy, now we can use Stratigens which provides visibility on the skills are available in a location"

VP HR EMEA Global pharmaceutical business

"Access to where talent are 'hanging out' online."

"Stratigens’ evidence based collective intelligence on the marketplace has been useful for analysing niche areas"

Head of Capability Major defence supplier to MoD

"This is hands down better than any other platform we have seen in this space"

Head of Talent Acquisition & Insight Global medical technologies firm

"The user-friendliness and intuitive nature of the application is great."

"Stratigens has really rich data and combinations of data that we have not seen in one platform before"

Workforce planning and optimisation expert Fortune 500 company

"Stratigens’ evidence based collective intelligence on the marketplace has been useful for analysing niche areas"

Head of Capability Major defence supplier to MoD

"One central resource for all workforce insights. We haven't seen any other tools offer this."

"It’s important for organisations like ours to be able to make informed decisions, not necessarily just global players but any that have a workforce of more than 10,000. Stratigens addresses this need"

Head of Talent Intelligence Global conglomerate

"Continuous development allows customers to influence what they would like to see in platform."

"Multiple data points including skillsets, territories, gender, ethnicity, current employers etc. They (our clients) will absolutely LOVE this, and this in turn will gain us huge credibility."

"This is hands down better than any other platform we have seen in this space"

Head of Talent Acquisition & Insight Global medical technologies firm

"Sharing market insight with customers: The data and intelligence...brilliant."

"Easily navigated panes with filter capabilities. Stratigens v3 has lots of useful additions to help the search, facilitating a move away from booleans."

"The ability to have a voice in helping build out the tool is a win for me"