8 Tools for Competitor Org Charts
Competitive intelligence requires you to create strategies that will combat your competitors. But how exactly can you use competitive intelligence tools for employee information? How do you make sense of the information available at your fingertips? How can you build competitor org charts?
It's important to use the best tools and information. Below, we will discuss some of the top competitive intelligence tools for analyzing competitors’ recruitment and org charts. These are some of the tools we use in competitor research for our customers to analyze competitors and understand what they are doing and what they plan to do next.
1. Careerbuilder Salary
For competitor analysis, one of the most popular competitive intelligence tools is CareerBuilder. By using CareerBuilder, you can use the salary search engine to do competitor research when searching for the salaries of specific job titles.
2. Glassdoor
Glassdoor is a competitive intelligence tool in that it can be used to find how much competitors are paying, what employees think of their employers, and how different departments are staffed.
3. Indeed
Indeed is the number one job site in the world that attracts over three hundred million monthly visitors. As a business, you can also use Indeed as a tool to help you stay in the know about what other companies are offering in terms of benefits and salary. Having the proper knowledge of what other companies are offering will allow you to keep a competitive analysis and to keep the upper hand when making new hires.
4. Job-Applications
Job-Applications is another useful competitive intelligence tool for online job applications. Their salary website page has a long list of employers sorted alphabetically. Each job listed includes information about salary, pay breakdown and job description. As a company, you can use Job-Applications to benchmark your own offering against competitors, but also to understand what competitors are prioritizing.
5. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the world’s largest company network with more than nine hundred million members, and serving over two hundred countries. We have written before about using LinkedIn for competitor analysis, and it remains one of the best tools for building competitor org charts and understand how competitors are resourced.
6. PayScale
PayScale is another useful tool for investigating how companies pay their employees, what roles they consider important and how they are structured in areas such as engineering, marketing and so on. PayScale offers extensive information on pay levels by role and other breakouts.
7. Salary.com
Salary.com’s personalized salary competitor report tool can help you benchmark salaries by analyzing the market for similar roles. Salary.com data for salaries is also useful at an industry and regional level.
8. The Official Board
The Official Board is a global data website that provides detailed corporate organizational charts that are very beneficial when making a competitor report. On this website, you can view the org charts of 80,000 companies. Their database is regularly updated, has corporate information sources, and is verified by email with company executives.
Bottom Line
We hope, after reading this article, that these top competitive intelligence tools for employee information will assist you in building org charts and analyzing competitors
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