The internet is flooded with job postings, but raw data is messy, duplicative, and unstructured. Lightcast collects, cleans, and enriches global job postings so you can extract immediate, reliable insights.

• Massive Scale: We gather data from over 220,000 active and historical websites worldwide, including company career pages, national job boards, and aggregators—then remove all the duplicates and noise so you can be confident every data point represents valuable intelligence.

• Context-Aware Insights: Our natural language processing tools understand the context of job postings, distinguishing between skills that are required and those that are preferred, and between similar terms with different meanings. This helps turn unstructured text into clear, useful intelligence.

• Multidimensional Analysis: As we collect and process job postings, we extract dozens of disparate details and map them to clean, organized taxonomies. This creates consistency across millions of postings written by different employers in different ways, making it possible to compare them and uncover meaningful patterns.

• Reliable History: For over two decades, Lightcast has enabled better decisions by providing better labor market intelligence to customers. Having decades of historical data allows you to put today’s labor market in context, distinguish lasting shifts from short-term changes, and understand how employer demand has evolved over time.

• Continuous Refinement: As occupations, skills, and the language of work evolve, so does our data. We regularly update our classifications and apply those improvements across both current and historical postings, giving you a consistent view of a changing labor market.