Talent Intelligence Collective Digest: June 2026
Welcome to the latest Talent Intelligence Collective Digest. The TIC Digest aims to be your go to source for all matters talent intelligence, workforce planning and people analytics and will publish monthly. A special thank you to Lightcast for sponsoring this month’s newsletter.
TIC News:
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Testing the relative age effect at the top of the FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 In youth sport, in primary school, and in elite hockey academies, the relative age effect is real and often striking — children born just after a school-year cutoff are bigger, older, and more confident than their classmates, and that small advantage compounds. Books like Outliers have made the idea famous. The natural next question: does that compounding advantage stretch all the way to the corner office?
The intelligence isn’t the point. The decision is.
Ask most talent intelligence practitioners what good looks like, and they’ll describe an output: a beautifully structured labour market briefing, a competitive hiring dashboard, a skills gap analysis with clean visualisations. They’ll talk about methodology rigour, source triangulation, confidence intervals. What they rarely describe is a decision that got made differently because of what they produced.
News:
Global Disruptions Intensify Pressures on Healthcare The US Healthcare system depends heavily on imported goods and foreign-born workers. But trade wars, aging global populations, and slowing international migration now threaten to make health-related goods and services harder to provide.
IBA (International Bar Association) global employment report highlights AI, skills shortages and employee wellbeing as defining workplace challenges. The International Bar Association (IBA) Global Employment Institute (GEI) has published its 14th Annual Global Report, identifying the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalisation, persistent skills shortages and employee wellbeing as the key issues shaping employment law and human resources (HR) practice worldwide.
The Services Budget Is AI’s Biggest Prize Enterprise software budgets are large. Enterprise services budgets are larger. A company might spend $10,000 licensing accounting software and 10 times that on the firm that closes the books. For most of the last decade, artificial intelligence companies were building for the software seat. The larger bet is the services contract.
AI skills shortage doubles hiring times in financial services Some 61 per cent of UK financial services organisations surveyed by Amazon Web Services cite AI and digital skills shortages as the biggest barrier to expanding their use of AI, with the average time taken to fill a role rising from 5.5 months last year to nine months in 2026.
U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution India’s IT giants seek to shift from back-office tech automation to AI orchestration, challenging consulting giants like Accenture, Deloitte, and McKinsey. A 2025 MIT Media Lab report found 95% of AI pilots fail due to flawed integration, and a massive gap between tech and organizational readiness. Indian IT firms hope to leverage their deep knowledge of legacy systems to bridge the deployment gap.
Nine in ten companies still waiting for AI to pay off, warns Accenture chief Matt Prebble, chief executive of Accenture UK and Ireland, said the disconnect between enthusiastic adoption and measurable returns now ranks as one of the most pressing strategic questions facing boardrooms on both sides of the Atlantic. “Over the last two years, we’ve seen three times as many people using AI within the workplace, but that individual productivity … that’s not actually yet translating to real company performance,”
Jobs
A highlight of some of the roles we’ve seen in the market. Overall the market feels busier than we’ve seen in previous months especially in the USA and when you look at the broader WFP and PA landscape.
APAC:
Talent Intelligence Partner Sanofi Chengdu, Sichuan, China (On-site)
Manager Talent Intelligence, P&C Service Operations Aristocrat
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India (On-site)
Talent Intelligence Consultant Internshala Gurugram, Haryana, India (On-site)
Lead – Talent Intelligence & US Sourcing (Talent Acquisition) Lowe’s India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-site)
Senior Associate, Talent Intelligence Amgen Hyderabad, Telangana, India (On-site)
Director - Talent Insights WPP Media Mumbai Metropolitan Region (Hybrid)
People Analytics & Workforce Intelligence Lead dunnhumby Gurugram, Haryana, India (Hybrid)
Data Scientist II, Forecasting, Demand Planning and Workforce Intelligence Amazon Science Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-site)
Global People Insights Analyst (Fixed term) Mondelēz International Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines (On-site)
EMEA:
Senior Talent Intelligence & Market Research Specialist (Recruitment) AECOM London, England, United Kingdom (Remote)
German Talent Intelligence Lead TTEC Cracow, Małopolskie, Poland (Hybrid)
Talent Acquisition Partner – Talent Intelligence & Pipelines FLSmidth Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (Remote)
Talent Acquisition Analyst (Talent Intelligence) Pacific Life Re London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
Senior Director / Director Talent Insights & Assessment Practice - Italy BTS Milan, Lombardy, Italy (On-site)
Workforce Intelligence Consultant ManpowerGroup United Kingdom (Remote)
Americas:
Talent Intelligence & Sourcing Manager Waymo Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)
Talent Intelligence & Enablement Strategist – Remote Symetra United States (Remote)
Senior Talent Intelligence & Market Research Specialist (Recruitment) AECOM Dallas, TX (Remote) - multiple locations
Principal Talent Intelligence Specialist - Tech (Hybrid - San Diego, CA or Acton, MA) Insulet Corporation Acton, MA (Hybrid)
Talent Intelligence Partner Fluent Software Montreal, QC (Hybrid)
Analyst, Sourcing and Talent Intelligence QXO Coppell, TX (On-site)
Talent Intelligence Analyst - Remote Work BairesDev Lima, Peru (Remote)
Talent Acquisition Partner – Talent Intelligence & Pipelines FLSmidth Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico (Remote)
Manager, Executive Recruiting, Research & Talent Insights Capital One Richmond, VA (On-site)
Talent Insights Consultant (US) Elevance Health Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid)
Workforce & Talent Insights Analyst Ocean Spray Cranberries
Lakeville, MA (Remote)
Vice President, Demand Optimization & Workforce Intelligence American Express Global Business Travel New York, United States (Remote)
Lead, Workforce Intelligence Salesforce Chicago, IL (On-site)
Principal HR Product Manager, Workforce Intelligence Blue Origin Greater Seattle Area (On-site)
Manager, Operations - Workforce Intelligence Walmart Bentonville, AR (On-site)
Principal Specialist, Workforce Intelligence Analyst (Remote) RTX Jefferson City, MO (Remote)
Manager, Workforce Intelligence (Remote) RTX Hartford, CT (Remote)
Senior Director, Global People Analytics & Workforce Intelligence- Mars Veterinary Health Banfield Pet Hospital Vancouver, WA (On-site)
Senior People Science and Insights Analyst (12-Month Contract) StackAdapt Toronto, ON (Remote)
Director, People Intelligence and AI Innovation iA Financial Group (Industrial Alliance) Québec, QC (Hybrid)
Manager, People Insights, Deloitte Global People Deloitte Ottawa, ON (Hybrid)
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Toby
