Stop guessing whether a hire is hard. A field library that walks a recruiter from "we have an open req" to a defensible, data-backed talent verdict - built for semiconductor and AI engineering markets where the title on the JD rarely matches the talent on the ground.
- 🗺 Map a market before you commit to it - geo concentration, competitor talent bases, and new-market entry, with copyable Boolean strings and AI prompts tuned for RF, analog IC, CUDA, and tape-out talent
- 📊 Hand leadership a decision, not a dashboard - build-vs-buy location strategy and a live pipeline-health diagnostic that reads coverage and flow instead of raw candidate counts
- 🔗 One connected system, not 14 loose files - every guide cross-links to the steps and modules it depends on, so you move from learning to doing to selling without losing your place
The library serves the same reader in three different modes. The front door (index.html) routes you to the right one.
- I'm learning - the flagship talent supply snapshot guide and reference material, for building the mental model
- I'm doing - the operational guides and step modules, for executing a real task this week
- I'm selling - the Tier 3 leadership briefs, for handing an exec a decision they can act on
- 📸 Pull a talent supply snapshot - the flagship 7-step method for sizing how hard a specific hire really is
- 🎯 Run a competitor talent analysis - three competitor lists (direct ≠ talent ≠ aspirational), org mapping, and a copyable battlecard template
- 🌏 Map a talent pool for a new market - the Draup five-lens framework applied to a real entry decision
- 🧩 Build a skills-based talent map - find the people when no one has the exact title
- 🔄 Set up an always-on intelligence cadence - standing watches, living documents, RACI, and event triggers that turn TI from heroic projects into a capability
- 📋 Brief a hiring manager with market data - the tactical playbook for the conversation that resets expectations
- 🏗 Build vs buy location strategy - names all four pathways, not the binary leadership walked in with, with an interactive pathway recommender
- 🩺 Pipeline health check - a live dashboard that toggles between an at-risk and a healthy quarter so you can see what coverage, source diversity, and flow look like in good and bad shape
- 📍 Map geo concentration - standalone light module on pulling and reading hub distribution
| Guide | Solves | File |
|---|---|---|
| Index / front door | Pick the right guide for the task | index.html |
| 01 — Talent supply snapshot | "How hard is this hire?" | talent-supply-snapshot-guide.html |
| 03 — Competitor talent analysis | "Where do they hire from and lose to?" | library-guide-03-competitor-analysis.html |
| 04 — New market mapping | "Should we open in this market?" | library-guide-04-new-market-mapping.html |
| 05 — Skills-based talent map | "No one has the title - who has the skills?" | library-guide-05-skills-based-map.html |
| 06 — Always-on cadence | "How do we run TI as a program?" | library-guide-06-always-on-cadence.html |
| 2.1 — Hiring manager brief | "How do I reset their expectations?" | tactical-brief-hiring-manager.html |
| 3.1 — Build vs buy location | "Where should this team live?" | library-guide-31-build-vs-buy.html |
| 3.2 — Pipeline health check | "Is this pipeline actually healthy?" | library-guide-32-pipeline-health-check.html |
| Step 3 — Geo concentration | "Where is this talent clustered?" | light-map-geo-concentration.html |
https://ohsusannamarie.github.io/talent-intelligence-playbook
The methods lean on named, current sources rather than generic best practice:
- Toby Culshaw — Talent Intelligence (Kogan Page, 2022) - the primary TI reference
- Draup - five-lens location strategy and the new-geography-of-work portfolio thesis
- Lightcast, TalentNeuron, LinkedIn Talent Insights - supply, demand, and skills data
- Levels.fyi, Layoffs.fyi, H1B Data, WARN - comp and movement signals
| Layer | Tech |
|---|---|
| Frontend | Self-contained HTML, one file per guide |
| Styling | Vanilla CSS - "intelligence dossier" design tokens (Fraunces / Inter / IBM Plex Mono; paper / ink / teal / amber / rust) |
| Interactivity | Vanilla JS - dashboards, recommenders, copy-to-clipboard prompt and Boolean cards |
| Fonts | Google Fonts |
| Hosting | GitHub Pages (flat folder, relative links) |
No build step, no framework, no backend. Open any file in a browser and it runs.
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index.html ← front door (renamed from ti-playbook-index.html)
talent-supply-snapshot-guide.html
library-guide-03-competitor-analysis.html
library-guide-04-new-market-mapping.html
library-guide-05-skills-based-map.html
library-guide-06-always-on-cadence.html
tactical-brief-hiring-manager.html
library-guide-31-build-vs-buy.html
library-guide-32-pipeline-health-check.html
light-map-geo-concentration.html
screenshots/
.nojekyll ← serve files as-is, skip Jekyll
LICENSE
README.md
git clone https://github.com/ohsusannamarie/talent-intelligence-playbook.git
cd talent-intelligence-playbook
open index.htmlEvery guide is a standalone file. Cross-references between guides use relative links, so the whole system works locally and on Pages with no configuration.
MIT — use freely, attribution appreciated.
For every sourcer who has been handed a req and a number that doesn't match reality, and had to go find the truth themselves.