Powering Decisions That Drive Clarity and Impact

Using the Most Trusted, Comprehensive Labor Market Data and Analytics

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Worldwide Authority on Labor Market Data

Lightcast data offers the most detailed information on skills, jobs, supply, and demand throughout the global labor market so you can build a future-ready workforce.

• Comprehensive: Data layered together across 2.5 billion job postings, 400 million career profiles, and 100+ government sources to develop 1,900 unique occupations, 30,000 skills, 100 million salary observations, and 5.1 million companies across 150+ countries and 11 languages

• Granular: AI-enabled data updated continuously, historically available, and regionally relevant

• Accessible in any format: Data shares and feeds, software, professional services, or a combination

• Proprietary: Unique taxonomies and methodologies providing insights that drive proven results

• Open Standard: We deliver the industry-standard in skill, title, and occupation taxonomies in an open API, free for anyone to use

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Delivering clear, actionable insight

Watch, and in just 2 minutes, see how we can uniquely help you power decisions so you can build a future-ready workforce with the world's most trusted labor market data.

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Comprehensive Solutions for Better Decisions

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Education

Prepare students and ensure institutional success.

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Enterprise and Staffing

Strategically find, recruit, and manage talent.

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Government

Build your businesses and employ your people.

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“Lightcast’s global external data and market-driven skills recommendations provide enhanced visibility into the skills our employees need to progress in their careers.”

Susie Long, Senior VP for Talent Acquisition

“Lightcast, year after year, from our day one on June 4, 2018 to today, has provided us the North Star of data that is driving our strategy, driving our programs, driving our services, and driving our fiscal investments in the Prince Charter's County economy. And without Lightcast, we wouldn't have that North Star. We'd probably be lost at sea. But thanks to Lightcast and the team, they are providing that data North Star that is leading to our success, the success of our businesses, the success of our residents, and the success of our economy.”

Walter Simmons, President and CEO

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“Lightcast sits on the gold mine of data, that is constantly being refreshed. When we have an idea, we can go in and test the hypothesis, go ahead and publish it, and get it out to the market so people can understand it.”

Bill Pelster, Co-Founder

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“Employers care about skills— so we need to give our students the language to share their skills using language that employers understand.”

Sasha Goldman, Director of PhD Resources

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“We really think that Lightcast has the world's best labour market data, and along with the excellent customer service we get, this means we are able to develop software solutions upon that strength, resulting in bringing genuinely useful skills and talent insights to our customers that help their business prosper.”

Simon Haines, Co-Founder and CEO

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“We as a community needed to start impacting outcomes. We set out to do two things: inform our business attraction efforts and inform our challenge attraction strategy -- and this analysis did that and then some!”

Kate Pangallo, Senior Director of Talent & Strategic Partnerships

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Data + insights however you want them

Data Delivery

With direct access to the most comprehensive labor datasets in the world through us, you have ultimate flexibility to create custom data displays and applications that power decisions.

Software

Conducting research is simple with Lightcast tools — explore interactive maps and graphs, share them with your team, and cut extensive data processes that waste resources down to a few clicks.

Professional Services

Our team of consultants and data scientists apply Lightcast’s advanced labor market information to any question — uncovering measurable strategies with a clear roadmap for growth.

Here To Help.

Whether you’re ready to go or wondering how to start, our team of data experts can help you take the next step. With world-class customer service and over two decades of expertise, we’re committed to helping you make better, faster decisions—driven by data. Use the link below to get in touch with us to talk about your challenges, our potential solutions, and even access a product demo.

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