Human Development Index

Human Development Index or HDI is an attempt to measure the health of a society, going beyond flawed GDP measures (inflation inflates GDP…) to include other life quality measures such as years in education, life expectancy and gross national income per capita. Three reasons why I am including it here: 1) potentially useful talent intelligence resource 2) a good lesson in how rank is determined by what you decide to count (think any league table of university, country, company etc) and 3) it’s pretty fun tool to play around with. btw: its also worth noting that the highest scoring countries are also the ones with the lowest fertility rates - we have to start talking about why.

Talent Intelligence Collective Benchmarking Survey 2023

Brilliant piece of research work from brainfooder Toby Culshaw, whose Talent Intelligence Collective group is one of the best online communities around. Here’s what that community said about the state of Talent Intelligence in 2023

Atlas: Sequoia’s Interactive Guide To Europe’s Technical Talent

Significant contribution by VC Sequoia to the tech recruitment landscape - an interactive website talent mapping the tech talent across Europe, which adds in the additional value from offering some observations of the candidate expectations such as erosion of location based pay, ubiquity of hybrid and top priorities of tech candidates. Must read, or download the PDF here. H/T to brainfooder Ruth Barnett for the share.

How Much Should You Pay for Tech Talent?

One of the consequences of the US State requirements to publish salaries advertised jobs, is that you can scrape the data and present it into a talent intelligence website. Comprehensive - an aspirational title as it is far from atm, covering only US data and then only data from states where salary transparency is law - but the idea of having a single place aggregating openly declared salaries is more than solid one. From the same folks who built Levels.fyi and promises one day to be equally valuable for US tech recruiters looking to benchmark compensation.

Developer Happiness Index 2021