Introducing ALT-Talent: The Live Tech Talent Intelligence Platform That Outsmarts LinkedIn Insights
Built in response to customer demand. Designed for how the tech talent market actually moves.
Building the right tech stack is key
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How to choose the right tech stack for your company?
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What to consider when choosing the right tech stack?
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What are the most relevant factors to consider?
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What tech stack do we use at Simpletech?
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Over the past year, a recurring theme kept coming up in conversations with Skillsize customers.
Whether they were hiring managers, talent leaders, founders, or consultants, the frustration was the same:
“We can see what the market looked like months ago, but we can’t see what’s happening now.”
Traditional talent tools were helping with reporting, but not with decision-making. By the time insights were pulled, reviewed and debated, the market had already shifted.
ALT-Talent was built to solve that exact problem.
This is not a side project or an experiment. ALT-Talent is a new Skillsize capability, developed directly from real customer needs, to provide live, tech-focused talent intelligence that keeps pace with a fast-moving market.
The problem with traditional talent data
If you have ever tried to make a hiring or workforce decision using conventional market insight tools, you will recognise the pattern.
You get broad averages.You get quarterly or monthly aggregates. You get retrospective views of what used to be in demand.
That might be fine for high-level reporting, but it falls short when you need to answer practical questions like:
- Is this role genuinely hard to hire right now?
- Which skills are becoming more valuable, and which are quietly fading?
- Are we paying competitively for this location and skill mix?
- Where should we actually be sourcing candidates today?
The tech talent market does not stand still. New tools, platforms and roles emerge constantly, while others lose relevance far faster than most planning cycles account for.
ALT-Talent exists because customers told us they needed live visibility, not historic summaries.
What is ALT-Talent?
ALT-Talent is Skillsize’s live tech talent intelligence platform.
It is designed for people who need to make decisions in real time, not after days of spreadsheet work or outdated benchmarks.
Instead of relying on static datasets, ALT-Talent continuously derives insight from live market signals including job boards, industry publications and current hiring activity. Every insight is timestamped and source-linked, so you can see exactly when the signal appeared and where it came from.
The focus is simple: live tech talent intelligence, built for action.
Key Features That Set ALT-Talent Apart
1. Market Pulse dashboard
The platform immediately presensts a "Market Pulse" command centre - a real-time overview of the talent landscape. This includes:
- Supply and demand ratios showing how many candidates exist for each open role
- Market temperature indicators that quickly signal whether conditions are hot, warm or cooling
- Trending roles that are seeing rapid growth in demand
- Geographic intelligence highlighting talent hotspots and emerging tech hubs
- Sector momentum showing which industries are expanding or slowing down
Every metric is backed by clear source references. There are no opaque scores or unexplained algorithms.
2. Skills Tracker with forward-looking insight
One of the most requested features from Skillsize customers was early visibility into skill trends.
The Skills Tracker was built specifically for this.
It allows you to:
- Identify skills gaining traction months before they become mainstream hiring requirements
- See the salary premium associated with specific skills and platforms
- Track projected demand over the next 12 to 36 months
- Monitor skills that are declining in relevance before investing in training or recruitment
Filters allow you to focus by job family, role type and major enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, AWS, SAP, Databricks and Microsoft technologies.
3. Role Map intelligence
ALT-Talent can generate a live market view for any role you specify.
For each role, it analyses:
- Skills currently in demand and those emerging fastest
- Skills that are becoming less relevant
- Exposure to automation and AI, including where roles are more likely to be augmented rather than replaced
- Certifications that employers are actively requesting
- Recent verified hiring activity from live job postings
- Likely talent sources based on location and role profile
This is role-specific, location-aware intelligence, refreshed continuously.
4. Compensation intelligence grounded in the live market
ALT-Talent does not rely on self-reported or outdated pay data.
Instead, it synthesises current hiring signals to show:
- Realistic hiring budgets for specific roles and locations
- How skills and platforms influence compensation
- Regional cost differences and geo-arbitrage opportunities
- Common optimisation opportunities, often in the range of 15 to 30 percent
This helps hiring managers and HR teams make offers that are competitive without being inflated.
5. Sourcing playbook generator
Another frequent customer request was guidance on where to actually find talent, not just what it costs.
The sourcing playbook generator produces tailored strategies based on:
- Role and seniority
- Location and remote options
- Industry and company size
- Budget constraints
Each playbook includes recommended sourcing channels, target company profiles, adjacent talent pools and signals such as recent layoffs or expansion activity.
6. Workforce strategy builder
For organisations planning new teams, nearshore hubs or regional expansions, ALT-Talent includes a workforce strategy builder that evaluates locations based on:
- Talent density
- Skill availability
- Cost considerations
- Recommended hiring timelines
This turns workforce planning into a data-led exercise rather than a speculative one.
ALT-Talent vs LinkedIn Talent Insights
LinkedIn Talent Insights is often the default choice, so it is worth being clear about the difference.
LinkedIn provides breadth across the general workforce. ALT-Talent provides actionable depth, speed and focus for tech roles, with access to a wider data source pool.
How it compares to other talent data tools
Platforms such as Lightcast and Huzzle are strong for macro analysis and long-term planning. They are well suited to academic, policy or large-scale workforce studies.
ALT-Talent is designed for a different use case: answering practical hiring and workforce questions quickly and confidently.
Glassdoor and Payscale provide useful reference points for pay, but their data often lags behind current market conditions. ALT-Talent reflects what organisations are actually advertising and paying today.
Indeed Hiring Insights is helpful but limited to its own ecosystem. ALT-Talent aggregates signals across multiple sources for a broader view.
Who Is ALT-Talent For?
ALT-Talent is used by:
- Hiring Managers who need to build a business case for headcount or justify salary offers
- Talent Acquisition Leaders planning sourcing strategies and measuring market competitiveness
- HR Business Partners advising on workforce planning and skill gaps
- Consultants supporting clients with talent market intelligence
- Founders and CTOs making critical early hiring decisions with limited budget
Why we built it
ALT-Talent exists because Skillsize customers asked for it.
They wanted talent intelligence that was:
- Live, not historic
- Tech-focused, not generic
- Transparent, not black-box
- Actionable, not academic
Rather than stretching existing tools beyond their limits, we built something new.
ALT-Talent is intentionally focused. It does not try to be everything to everyone. It focuses on tech roles, tech skills and the market dynamics that change fastest and matter most.
Try ALT-Talent
ALT-Talent is accessible for free, providing open access to our Live Market Pulse.
For deep dive insights, we offer two price tiers designed to be genuinely accessible, especially compared to traditional enterprise talent data tools.
If you are tired of making hiring decisions based on outdated data, you can explore ALT-Talent here: alt-talent.com.
Final thoughts
The competition for tech talent is not slowing down. New skills emerge quickly, AI continues to reshape roles, and organisations that move fastest gain a real advantage.
ALT-Talent is Skillsize’s response to that reality.
It is built to help teams move with the market, not chase it.
Reach out to us here to learn more about the platform and to see a full demo of the functionality. As always, feedback is welcome.
