Data for the Next Move Forward
Comprehensive, accurate information from every angle to give the most complete, nuanced, up-to-date picture of the labor market possible. We deliver clarity to enterprise and staffing, education institutions, and regional leaders.
An Unparalleled View of the Labor Market
At Lightcast, our comprehensive data includes the most detailed information on skills, jobs, supply, and demand throughout the global labor market. With over 20 years of experience, we have the expertise to help you understand the present and anticipate and adapt for the future.
How it works
We gather the data that's relevant to your goals
Lightcast Data is a combination of labor market information, job postings, global data, skills data, compensation data, + online profiles.
We give data the Lightcast treatment
Our team and tech clean, categorize, and draw meaning from the data. We turn millions of relevant inputs into actionable insights just for you.
We deliver the data + insights however they serve you best
Whether you’ve got great tech support or none, you can leverage the insights right away. Access ongoing training to gain confidence and solve more problems with data.
We gather the data that's relevant to your goals
Lightcast Data is a combination of labor market information, job postings, global data, skills data, compensation data, + online profiles.
We give data the Lightcast treatment
Our team and tech clean, categorize, and draw meaning from the data. We turn millions of relevant inputs into actionable insights just for you.
We deliver the data + insights however they serve you best
Whether you’ve got great tech support or none, you can leverage the insights right away. Access ongoing training to gain confidence and solve more problems with data.
Lightcast data has the breadth and depth to power practical decisions.
Employers can...
plan talent strategy, train their workforces, and find workers in a dynamic labor market
Educators can...
plan curricula, ensuring the skills they teach are in demand and will launch graduates into satisfying careers
Government Agencies can...
plan economic development strategies and guide job training programs
- Skills
Skills are the basic unit and shared language of the labor market. Identifying the skills required to a job enables clear understanding of the role—much more than a job title on its own can. Our tools identify skills that workers have and employers want, classified according to the Lightcast Open Skills Library, so that you can articulate and understand your exact need and how to meet it.
- Job Posting Analytics
For over two decades, Lightcast has been a pioneer in big-data analysis of job postings from all over the internet, and this is what sets us apart. Our tools collect raw data on postings from more than 65,000 online sources, then synthesize and interpret those findings to provide meaningful insight in near real time. Job posting analytics can identify supply and demand for workers, skills, and jobs all over the world, as well as important contextual details like compensation trends.
- Traditional Labor Market Information
Government sources all over the world publish their own research and statistics on compensation, industries, occupations, education, and demographics for their populations. This data is slower and less specific than Lightcast proprietary data, but it's still useful for understanding big-picture details on the labor market.
Lightcast products include relevant government data that has been unsuppressed and enriched using our proprietary methodology to help create the most complete and comprehensive insight possible, and we synthesize international data using the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy to enable clear, standardized comparisons all over the world.
- Social Profile Data
When individuals post their resumes on the internet or build online profiles that include career information, they create an additional layer of data on skills and other relevant characteristics. That information, aggregated and anonymous, provides further detail into the supply of talent in a region, education outcomes, and career pathways. Lightcast uses this profile data to supplement our data from other sources.
Take a closer look
View our Knowledge Base
An atlas of occupations and skills
The proprietary Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy covers nearly 2,000 occupations and over 30,000 skills, allowing us to make apples-to-apples comparisons between roles, whether they’re across occupations or across nations.
How our customers use it
The Lightcast skills taxonomy creates a common language for the world of work, helping connect employers, education institutions, communities, and individuals. Students and jobseekers can use Lightcast Skills to write better resumes and discover the top skills in demand. Colleges and universities can use Lightcast Skills to design and market work-relevant programs that help students communicate their skills to potential employers. Communities can use skills to describe the talent that businesses need, the abilities that local workers have, and any gaps between the two.
Our free Open Skills tools use this data to optimize resumes and job postings, helping match skills to occupations and workers to jobs.
Delivered via APIs
All of the data referenced above is available through tools as well as APIs. Explore our full menu of APIs and find out more about how to get direct access to these datasets, as well as our proprietary taxonomies and models.
Global in Scope
Lightcast solutions can solve problems almost anywhere you can imagine. Our database has information on over 150 countries for reference and consulting, while our global software products come ready with data on 28.
Countries use all kinds of different names and definitions to understand their own labor markets, so we solve this disparity by using our own taxonomy that unifies titles between countries and helps everyone speak the same language.
Having this broad view helps you compare markets across borders, determine where your company might expand, and understand the local skills landscape all over the world.
