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

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Build a brand that senior talent chooses.

The best Director and VP-level candidates in your sector have already decided what they think of your GCC before the first conversation. We change that picture, using the same placement intelligence that tells us why they say yes or no to roles like yours.

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The Problem

Most GCCs have a hiring problem they think is compensation.

By the time a Director-level candidate has decided not to join your centre, the version of your brand they're working from is two years old and built mostly from inference. A few LinkedIn posts. Two Glassdoor reviews. A conversation with someone who used to work there.

That picture is what your hiring is actually competing with. Not the comp band, not the brief, not the recruiter, the version of you the candidate constructs before anyone gets to make a case.

Employer branding for a GCC is a deliberate answer to four questions: what is it actually like to work here, who is it for, how does that show up in the channels where senior talent makes decisions, and is the leadership willing to say so publicly. A logo and a careers page answer none of them.

In every employer brand audit we run, the gap between what the GCC says about itself and what senior candidates actually experience is wider than the leadership team thinks.
From a 2025 audit of 12 GCCs across four sectors
Our Approach

Three workstreams. Sequenced.

Each can run as a standalone engagement, but most clients run them in order, the second and third are stronger when the first is in place.

01 · Listen
EVP grounded in placement data
We interview candidates who said yes and those who said no. Then we cross-reference what they tell us against your sector's actual behaviour in our placement database. The EVP we hand you is one you can defend in front of a CHRO with data, not a slide.
02 · Build
Candidate-facing channels & content
Careers site, LinkedIn presence, and content that earns its place in a senior candidate's research process. Built around what your sector's talent actually searches for, not a generic content calendar lifted from another industry.
03 · Amplify
Leadership voice & thought leadership
Senior candidates read your leadership before they take the call. We help your GCC head and functional leaders publish the kind of content that makes them findable, credible, and worth a conversation. Editorial, not promotional.
A Typical Engagement

How the work moves over six months.

Four phases. The first two are intensive, the last two are operational, we hand them off to your team once the engine is built and the second leadership hire has closed.

Phase 01
Weeks 1–3
Listen
Twelve to twenty interviews, recent hires, declined offers, and senior talent in your sector who would not consider you today. The honest version, on background.
Phase 02
Weeks 4–8
Build
EVP, messaging architecture, first content artefacts. Tested against the same audience that gave us the diagnostic. Signed off by your leadership before anything goes public.
Phase 03
Weeks 9–16
Activate
Careers site refresh, LinkedIn rebuild, leadership publishing programme, and the editorial calendar your team will operate after we step out. Built to run without us.
Phase 04
Ongoing
Measure
Quarterly read-out: candidate sentiment, offer acceptance velocity, time-to-fill at senior levels. If the numbers don't move, we're the first to say so.
What This Changes

The numbers that move.

A stronger brand makes the placement record easier to repeat. These are the firm-wide outcomes a credible employer brand is built to protect.

82%
Offer-acceptance rate when the brand and the band line up with what senior candidates expect
Offer acceptance, firm-wide
~94%
Of placed leaders still in seat at twelve months, the real test of a brand promise that holds
12-month retention, firm-wide
2 wks
A qualified shortlist inside two weeks on roughly 65% of mandates, faster once the brand does the warming
Shortlist speed, firm-wide
Other Services

If this is part of a bigger problem.

The work we do is designed to fit together. Most employer brand engagements either preceded or followed one of these.

Placement
Scale-Up Hiring
When the employer brand work is what's needed to make a scale-hiring plan achievable. We sequence the two.
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Managed Services
GCC Set-Up & Transformation
If you're building the centre from scratch, the EVP is one of the first things to get right, long before the first JD goes live.
Explore GCC Set-Up
Placement
Executive Search
When the brand is in place but the next CXO needs to be the right one, quietly, off-market, with intelligence behind every shortlist.
Explore Executive Search
Intelligence & Advisory
Compensation Benchmarking
Before the EVP, the comp story has to be straight. We tell you what roles actually pay by sector and city, and where you're out of band.
Explore Benchmarking
Intelligence & Advisory
Talent Availability Mapping
Where is the talent you're trying to attract actually working? Which competitors do they consider, and what are the trigger points?
Explore Mapping
Read the Thinking

Intelligence on this topic.

Reports, newsletters, and conversations that informed how we built this service. All free to read.

Report
Why senior GCC talent walks away from the offer
Findings from 240 director-level interviews across 4 sectors. The reasons are rarely the ones cited in the rejection email.
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The Signal · #18
Your careers page is failing, and your data probably can't see it
What seven careers-page audits tell us about why senior candidates close the tab inside 40 seconds.
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The Build · Ep 09
"They knew our Glassdoor reviews better than we did"
A CHRO walks through the year their GCC stopped losing senior talent, and what they had to stop saying about themselves.
Listen to the episode
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.

Aren't there employer branding agencies that already do this?
There are, and a few are very good. The difference is what's behind the recommendation. We have placed 4,000+ senior people into GCCs since 2006 and tracked which of them stayed. No employer branding agency has that data; their recommendations are creative judgements. Ours are creative judgements built on a placement record.
Do you write the content, or train our team to?
Both, sequenced. We write the first wave of content to set the editorial line, then we train your internal communications and TA marketing team to run the engine. By month four most clients are operating it themselves with quarterly editorial reviews from us.
What does an engagement cost?
A full EVP and activation engagement is priced as a single fixed fee, sized to the GCC. Standalone audits, leadership publishing programmes, or careers-site rebuilds are priced separately. We quote against a brief, we don't publish standard rate cards because the work isn't standard.
How do you measure whether it worked?
Three numbers, every quarter: qualified inbound applications at Director-and-above level, offer-acceptance velocity, and decline-rate at the senior end. If those don't move within six months of activation, the engagement isn't working, and we say so before you have to ask.
Will you work with our existing creative agency?
Yes, often. The EVP and the candidate intelligence are ours; the creative execution can sit with an agency you already trust. We've worked alongside three of the major India agencies in the last 18 months and the model holds.
How is this different from your scale-hiring engagement?
Scale hiring fills roles. Employer branding makes those roles easier to fill, and makes the next 50 hires more selective about who they accept. Most clients run them in sequence, with employer branding feeding the brief.
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Tell us where the brand is losing candidates today. We'll come back with one observation, even if we don't end up working together.

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