{"id":414,"date":"2017-12-18T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T09:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talismatic.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:30:42","slug":"the-grinch-that-stole-competitors-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talismatic.com\/blog\/the-grinch-that-stole-competitors-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grinch that Stole Competitors’ Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come December, and the festive feeling starts kicking in. In fact, for some of us, the premature Christmas excitement begins right after the Halloween and sometimes even before the leaves start falling off the trees. \u00a0And it\u2019s so justified – this whole excitement around Christmas, we mean. You can never be \u2018over\u2019 excited about the season of holidays, after all.<\/p>\n

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Everything we do during our Christmas holidays is steeped in tradition. Spending time with loved ones, decorating the Christmas tree, hanging stockings, leaving milk and cookies for Santa, savoring delectable handmade chocolates and cookies, or singing carols all night long \u2013 these are all customs that we have learned as kids.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s something else related to Christmas that we came across as children.<\/p>\n

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Do you guys remember The Grinch? In Dr. Seuss\u2019s famous children\u2019s book, the Grinch is this grouchy loner who devises a diabolical scheme to disguise himself as Santa Claus and steal all the Christmas goodies from Whoville, a town inhabited by the warm-hearted Whos. The sound of Christmas festivities, as it reached Grinch\u2019s cave on a mountain in the north of Whoville, fills his heart with spite and he decides to spoil the merriment. The story reveals that reason for all this wickedness was the Grinch\u2019s heart, which was \u2018two-sizes small.\u2019 In the end, the Grinch has a \u2018change of heart\u2019 and he realizes that Christmas means much more than feasting and presents. And with that realization, his heart suddenly grows three sizes!<\/p>\n

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This Christmas, the Grinch is back! And he\u2019s back with his big heart and an even bigger purpose! He\u2019s come back to meet the hardworking and perennially busy inhabitants of \u2018HRville,\u2019 the HR personnel<\/strong>. As the adage goes, \u2018old habits die hard.\u2019 So, the Grinch continues to steal, but this time around his approach is ethical and for the larger good of HR. \u00a0Besides, the Grinch simply loves to disguise himself and has now taken on the avatar of an \u2018intelligent\u2019 competitor analysis tool, Talismatic.<\/p>\n

Talismatic brings insights on competitor recruiting strategy and performance to HRville!<\/p>\n

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When recruitment data analytics meets its noble Grinch<\/h2>\n

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Any attempt at recruitment data analytics is incomplete and rather futile if not supplemented with relevant competitor insights. With Talismatic, HR gets to develop its acquisition strategy with not just inward looking data but also data that shows:<\/p>\n