Workforce Insights To Drive Smart Decisions

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.

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 160,000 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.

Government sources all over the world publish their own research and statistics on compensation, industries, occupations, education, and demographics for their populations. We clean, expand, and connect these insights, making them more actionable and easier to understand across different regions and industries. This includes using the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy to enable clear, standardized comparisons all over the world.

When someone posts their resume on the internet or builds an online profile with their career information, they create a record of how workers describe their own experience. We aggregate anonymous data from millions of online professional profiles, adding another layer of insight into workforce skills, career paths, and talent availability.