Workforce Plans Built on Guesswork Don’t Survive Market Shifts

Most enterprises plan workforce with outdated snapshots -leaving skill gaps, cost inefficiencies, and missed opportunities.

Outdated Insights

Talent supply, cost, and skill data change faster than annual plans can keep up, creating blind spots in hiring and capacity planning.​

Reactive Decisions

Teams scramble to fill roles after attrition or growth spikes instead of predicting needs in advance.

Disconnected Planning

HR, Finance, and Business units operate on different datasets, making workforce strategies hard to align to P&L outcomes.​

Hidden Workforce Potential

Internal talent with adjacent or emerging skills goes untapped, leading to costly external hiring and slower redeployment.​

Turn Workforce Chaos into Decision Clarity

Draup for Talent uses proprietary labor-market intelligence to bring precision and agility to workforce design.

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Real-Time Intelligence

Continuous data on talent supply, demand, cost, and skills to make planning dynamic and evidence-based.​

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Predictive Role Modeling

Forecast how roles and skill mixes will evolve, and design reskilling or hiring plans before gaps appear.​

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Integrated Scenario Planning

Align headcount, cost, and location strategies with business priorities using explainable AI-driven simulations.

DRAUP's WORKFORCE PLANNING ENGINE

Talent Overview​

Get a detailed view of the regional job market with insights into talent size, demand, growth trends, and hiring difficulty. Analyze wage benchmarks, skill maturity, and availability to identify where supply meets your capability needs.

Top Career Paths​

Understand how professionals progress into and out of a given role to reveal feeder positions, common transitions, and future career trajectories. Use these insights to design internal mobility, upskilling, and retention strategies aligned with industry norms.

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Talent Hotspots​

Pinpoint geographic regions with the highest concentration of qualified professionals for your target roles. Evaluate cost, competition, and migration patterns to inform your location strategy and optimize workforce distribution.

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Top Employers​

Discover which companies dominate hiring for your target roles and functions. Benchmark talent acquisition strategies, sourcing channels, and employer brand positioning to better compete for scarce, high-value skills.

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Compensation Range​

Compare role-based compensation across percentiles, industries, and regions to align your salary bands with market realities. Stay competitive in your offers and drive higher acceptance rates with data-backed compensation insights.

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Use Cases

Where Draup’s Workforce Planning Delivers the Edge

Global Talent Supply & Cost Benchmarking

Compare talent density and compensation across locations before expansion.

Role & Skill Forecasting

Anticipate which roles are emerging, transforming, or at risk of obsolescence.

AI-Driven Reskilling Strategy

Identify adjacent skills and design data-backed reskilling pathways.

Location Strategy Optimization

Pinpoint the best global hubs balancing cost, skill depth, and diversity.

Org Redesign & Scenario Planning

Model future org structures aligned with automation and AI transformation.

Outcomes for SWP Leaders​

Draup gives you data-rich, insight-packed, actionable workforce plans.
Future-Ready Workforce: Anticipate skill shifts before they disrupt critical functions.
Smarter Reskilling: Focus learning investments where market demand is accelerating.
Reduced Redundancy: Align internal roles and training to workloads and emerging capabilities.
Faster Workforce Planning: Replace static frameworks with dynamic skill architectures.
Data-Driven Decisions: Link talent strategy directly to business, tech, and market.

The Draup Advantage

Granular Search

Zero in on the perfect candidate with 30+ filters across

  • Capabilities (Core Skills, Workloads)
  • Experience (Years in Role, Past Companies)
  • Diversity (Ethnicity, Gender, Veterans)
  • Accomplishments (Patents, Publications)

Flexible Querying

Search your way,
from simple to complex

  • Natural Language: “Find female data scientists in San Francisco”
  • Complex Boolean: Build multi-layered queries with AND, OR, NOT
  • Filter-Specific Search: Target exact fields for ultimate precision
  • Skills & Adjacency Search: Go beyond titles. Search by core, adjacent, and emerging skills​

Candidate Insights

See the whole person,
not just the resume

  • Verified talent profiles enriched with skills, experience, and academic/professional credentials.​
  • De-duplicated, ghost-free data enhanced with digital footprints like GitHub repos, publications, and patents.​
  • Actionable insights including project history and job-change likelihood for smarter hiring decisions.​

Enterprises do extraordinary things with Draup

Real stories. Real Success.

Most business and HR leaders recognize the critical role of workforce planning in enabling business performance. Yet, organizations often struggle to execute it effectively. Draup is one of the most promising solutions for closing this gap - unlocking the power of agentic AI and labor market data for faster, more informed talent decisions that drive business results.
Brian Heger
Founder of Talent Edge Weekly
With the insights provided by Draup, we have been able to adjust our approach to recruitment and location selection, empowering our business leaders to make informed decisions. This has not only optimized our talent acquisition processes but also opened up opportunities for making diverse hires in locations we had not previously considered.
Jennifer Basdekis
Staff Talent Intelligence Consultant
Every business leader is trying to understand how AI will transform its workforce, and this means jobs, roles, skills, and systems. Etter from Draup is one of the most advanced, groundbreaking tools I've seen, to help leaders, managers, and HR professionals quickly understand how to redesign jobs to leverage AI.
Josh Bersin
Founder and CEO
Draup’s Ecosystem feature significantly reduces our research time, allowing for quicker access to actionable talent insights. Now, with everything consolidated under one platform, we can easily explore ecosystems in any location. This efficiency drastically speeds up research that would otherwise take days.
Sam Fletcher
Former Head of Talent Intelligence
Discovering the world of business talents worldwide. Supplies knowledge about global talent status and search trends.
Vincenzo Cozzolino
Head of People Strategy & Governance

Powered by unparalleled global labor & market data

Powering 80+ Machine Learning models and 12+ Psychology models
GRANULAR
AI-enabled data updated continuously, historically available, and regionally relevant.
ACCESSIBLE
Data exchange and APIs, platform or a combination.
PROPRIETARY
Unique taxonomies and methodologies providing insights that drive proven results.
850M+
Professionals
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Skills
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University Professors
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Job Descriptions
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Industries
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Custom Talent Reports
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Courses
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Professionals
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Skills
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University Professors
1B+
Job Descriptions
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Industries
1000+
Custom Talent Reports
200K+
Courses
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Roles
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Locations
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Universities
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Peer Group Companies
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Career Paths
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Labor Databases
3200+
Roles
5800+
Locations
54K+
Universities
1.6M+
Peer Group Companies
4M+
Career Paths
100+
Labor Databases
3200+
Roles
5800+
Locations
54K+
Universities
1.6M+
Peer Group Companies
4M+
Career Paths
100+
Labor Databases
GRANULAR
AI-enabled data updated continuously, historically available, and regionally relevant
ACCESSIBLE
Data shares and feeds, software, professional services, or a combination
PROPRIETARY
Unique taxonomies and methodologies providing insights that drive proven results

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Draup different from traditional workforce analytics tools?​

Draup goes beyond dashboards - it uses proprietary, verified global labor-market data refreshed daily, coupled with explainable AI to drive actionable workforce decisions.​

Can Draup integrate with our HR systems?​

Yes. Draup integrates seamlessly with major HRIS, ATS, and planning tools via APIs, enriching your internal data with live market intelligence.

How often is Draup’s data updated?​

Talent, cost, and demand data are refreshed daily from 70,000+ sources, ensuring your workforce plans reflect market reality.

What kind of ROI can we expect?​

Clients typically achieve 30–40% faster planning cycles, 25% fewer skill mismatches, and significant cost savings from optimized hiring and redeployment.​

Does Draup support both strategic and operational planning?​

Yes. Draup powers long-range workforce design (3–5 years) as well as quarterly operational planning - from skill forecasts to location hiring and cost optimization.​

Can Draup help identify which roles will be impacted by AI and automation?​

Absolutely. Draup’s AI impact and skills evolution models highlight which tasks can be automated, which roles need redesign, and which skills to invest in next.​

How does Draup ensure data accuracy and compliance?​

All insights are derived from licensed, ethical, and verifiable sources — fully GDPR-compliant — with audit trails and confidence scores for every data point.​

Can we benchmark against our competitors or peer companies?​

Yes. Draup’s peer intelligence module lets you benchmark your workforce mix, costs, and skill intensity against named peer groups or industry leaders.

How long does it take to deploy Draup for Talent?​

Most enterprise clients go live within 4–6 weeks, including integrations, access setup, and first-round workforce scenario modeling.​

Who in the organization typically uses Draup?​

CHROs, Heads of Workforce Planning, Talent Strategy, and Business HR teams - often in collaboration with Finance and Transformation leaders for joint decision-making.​