Universal Standard

Over the past 25 years, we have invested in labor market analysis, classification, modeling, and technical innovation -- so you can unlock a durable skills/title/occupation framework that enables interoperability across HR systems, education platforms, government agencies, and workforce technology providers worldwide.

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35,000+ standardized skills in the Lightcast Skills Taxonomy, including subcategories, skill types, descriptions, skill metadata curated by Lightcast, and more.
75,000+ standardized titles in the Lightcast Titles Taxonomy, including unique machine-readable IDs, and more.
1,800+ specialized occupations in the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy, including machine-readable IDs, nested categories, and unique occupation types — to support structured analytics and smart mapping.
Title-to-skill and occupation insights.
Expanded labor market intelligence, including Job Postings API, Compensation Benchmarks API, Career Pathways API, and countless other API options to power your labor market insights.
    Lightcast Titles Taxonomy


    The Lightcast Titles Taxonomy distills over 20 million real-world jobs titles, collected from over 1 billion job postings, resumes and profiles, and standardizes them into a proprietary taxonomy of 75,000+ titles. While some titles, like "Air Traffic Controller," map directly to specific occupations, this relationship remains flexible, unlike the fixed structure of the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy.


    The Lightcast Titles enables organizations to standardize job data and integrate it into other labor market resources and taxonomies. This creates a universal framework for benchmarking, analysis, and transforming internal job classifications into actionable, externally relevant data.

    Lightcast Skills Resources

    Oil, Energy Independence, and the Workforce Gap

    April 30, 2026

    Heroes in the Capsule and on the Ground

    April 16, 2026

    The AI Job Market in Italy

    April 15, 2026