The report discusses about the availability of talentpool for niche skill set and where the companies are hiring from

1. Global Location Niche Skill-set Insights
June 2013
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3. Niche Skill-set
Following are the niche skills Talent Neuron Studied
Source: Talent Neuron research and analysis 3
Skill Definition
AWK Programming language used mainly for processing text files
Linguistic Semantics The study of literal, decontextualized, grammatical meaning
NLP
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the computerized approach to analyzing
text/speech that is based on both a set of theories and a set of technologies
NLU
It is branch of NLP that deals with conversion of text into a more formalized
representations such as first-order logic structures that are easier for computer
programs to manipulate.
WCF
A part of the .NET Framework that provides a unified programming model for
rapidly building service-oriented applications that communicate across the web
and the enterprise
SNOMED
SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine -- Clinical Terms), is a
systematically organized computer collection of medical terms providing codes,
terms, synonyms and definitions covering diseases, findings, procedures,
microorganisms, substances, etc.
TTS Text to speech technologies
Stochastic Parsing Probabilistic Context free grammar evolved from Natural Language
Semantic Tagging Predefined tags to annotate text and provide a reference to associated meaning
MOS Mean opinion Score: It helps to assess voice quality

4. Niche Skill set
The following cities featured in the top for niche skills availability
AMERICAS REGION
Bay Area
Seattle
RTP
Bellevue
Boston
Cambridge
Atlanta
Dallas
Montreal
Rochester Hills, MI
Salt Lake City, Utah
Sao Paulo
Toronto
Vancouver
Chicago
New York
EMEA REGION
Dubai
Dublin
Franklin
Graz, Austria
Haifa
London
Moscow
Tel Aviv
Warsaw
Yehud, Israel
APJ REGION
Bangalore
Beijing
Pune
Chennai
NCR
Hyderabad
Singapore
Shanghai
Source: Talent Neuron research and analysis
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5. Niche Skill-set
The following cities featured in the top for niche skills
AWK NLP WCF TTS SNOMED
Bangalore Bangalore Atlanta Atlanta Arlington
Bay Area Bay Area Bangalore Bangalore Baltimore
Cambridge Beijing Beijing Bay Area Bangalore
Chennai London Boston Beijing Bay Area
Dallas Moscow Chennai Bellevue Boston
Hyderabad NCR Hyderabad Chicago Chicago
Manila Pune Montreal RTP Philadelphia
Pune RTP Shanghai Rochester Hills Pittsburgh
RTP Seattle Toronto Singapore Richmond
West Lake Tel Aviv Vancouver Tampa Tampa
Source: Talent Neuron compensation and benefits Survey Q1 2013 5

6. Niche Skill-set
The following cities featured in the top for niche skills
NLU Semantic Tagging Stochastic Parsing MOS
Bay Area Arlington Bay Area Atlanta
Beijing Bay Area Folsom
Bellevue Burlington Hutchinson
Cambridge Glendale Plantation
Columbia Madison RTP
New York New York Washington D.C.
Pittsburgh
Redmond
Rochester Hills
Sunnyvale
Source: Talent Neuron compensation and benefits Survey Q1 2013 6

7. Niche Skill-set
Illustration list of companies hiring for Niche skills in the key locations
Source: Talent Neuron compensation and benefits Survey Q1 2013
AMERICAS REGION
City Illustrative Companies
Bay Area A9.com, Quizlet
Seattle Amazon
RTP Cisco, IBM
Bellevue
eDataForce, Microsoft
Boston Humedica, Aspect
Cambridge Google, Charles River
Analytics
Atlanta
Metasys Technologies
Dallas
Infotech Enterprises
, Semiconductor
companies
Montreal Microsoft
Rochester
Hills, MI
Siemens
Communications
Salt Lake City eBay
Sao Paulo Cisco
Toronto Kobo
Vancouver Avanade
Chicago Accenture
New York
Access Intelligence
EMEA REGION
City
Illustrative
Companies
Dubai HCL Infosystem
Dublin Microsoft
Franklin Xerox Corporation
Graz, Austria Enso Detego
Haifa Google
London Microsoft
Moscow Google
Tel Aviv Google
Warsaw Samsung
Yehud, Israel Wochit
APJ REGION
City
Illustrative
Companies
Bangalore
Symphony
Services,
Innovation labs
24/7
Beijing Microsoft
Pune IBM, Mphasis
Chennai IBM, HCL
Technologies
NCR Sapient
Hyderabad
Microsoft
Singapore IBM, Renaissance
Solutions
Shanghai Microsoft
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Source: Talent Neuron Research and Analysis
520+ Cities
~12,000 Unique Data
Points Per City
9 Domains &
400+ Skills
~7,500 Companies &
22 Million Profiles
Module 1: Talent Intelligence Module 2: Talent Analytics
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• Talent Pool (Installed and Fresh)
• Salary and Cost
• University
• Peer Companies
• Monitor
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• Public People Profiles
• HR Data Consolidation
• Peer Benchmarking
• Decision Support Analytics
• Workforce Planning
• Skill Circles
• Hypotheses Validation
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