Lightcast is the world's leading authority on job skills, workforce talent, and labor market dynamics, providing expertise that empowers businesses, education providers, and governments to find the skills and talent they need and enables workers to unlock new career opportunities. 

Lightcast

 - Labor Market Insights

We connect people with jobs by providing businesses, communities, and education institutions with the best labor market data possible. Our data-driven insight enables better, faster decisions.

How We Help

Lightcast software, consulting, and APIs are all powered by over 18 billion data points, refined and categorized by human experts, delivering clarity to everyone we serve.

Data & APIs

Conducting research is simple with Lightcast SaaS products — explore interactive maps and graphs, share them with your team, and execute extensive data processes in just a few clicks.

Software

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

Professional Services

If you're looking for the world's most trusted labor market data, analytics platforms, and expert guidance to help you tackle critical decisions, you've come to the right place. Lightcast is the pioneer and market leader in global labor analytics.

Why Lightcast

Find industry-leading insights, expert content, our media center, and tools and tips from Lightcast.

Resources

How stakeholders in Cornwall are using Lightcast data to simplify labour market complexity.


Simplifying Labour Market Complexity - UK Roundtable

How Stakeholders in Cornwall are Using Lightcast Data to Simplify Labour Market Complexity.

Simplifying Labour Market Complexity: With a comprehensive workforce dataset built on a foundation of world-leading taxonomies


Simplifying Labour Market Complexity - APAC webinar

Simplifying Labour Market Complexity - APAC Webinar 

HR Next Level: Skills Velocity Unleashed - Navigating Tomorrow's Workforce

How fast are critical skills changing? Who will be doing the jobs of tomorrow? In this webinar, we’ll be exploring the accelerating pace of skills velocity and what it means for your organization’s talent strategy.

HR Next Level: Skills Velocity Unleashed

HR Next Level: Skills Velocity Unleashed – Navigating Tomorrow’s Workforce

HR trends come and go, but four disciplines within the field—people analytics, talent intelligence, workforce planning, and behavioral science—have proven increasingly valuable. by understanding how human capital data informs all of these, we can make even better workforce decisions. 

The Tree of Value: Using Data to Break Down HR Silos

Outcomes, ROI, and the Future of Value in Higher Ed

Reimagining Accreditation

Reimagining Accreditation: Outcomes, ROI, and the Future of Value in Higher Ed

Simplifying Labour Market Complexity

Simplifying Labour Market Complexity - UK Webinar

Strategies for Economic and Workforce Development Leaders. Join the National Governors Association (NGA) and Lightcast for an essential webinar on how to build a resilient workforce through skills-based hiring.

Skills-Based Hiring & Adapting to the Speed of Skill Change

AI at Work: Insights from the 2025 Stanford AI Index, Powered by Lightcast

Skills-Based Hiring: An Interactive Q&A with National Governors Association

Join us for an exclusive webinar as Toby Culshaw shares his journey from Amazon to Lightcast as our new VP of Research.

Toby Culshaw plus Lightcast

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HR Next Level: come dati e AI stanno ridisegnando il ruolo del recruiter


come dati e AI stanno ridisegnando il ruolo del recruiter

HR Next Level: come dati e AI stanno ridisegnando il ruolo del recruiter

UK Skills Revolution Collaborator Group: Online discussion panel on skills and skills disruption


Upcoming Webinars

The Tree of Value: Using Data to Break Down HR Silos

HR Next Level: Skills Velocity Unleashed – Navigating Tomorrow’s Workforce

Simplifying Labour Market Complexity - APAC Webinar

How Stakeholders in Cornwall are Using Lightcast Data to Simplify Labour Market Complexity.

Past Webinars

AI at Work: Insights from the 2025 Stanford AI Index, Powered by Lightcast

Skills-Based Hiring: An Interactive Q&A with National Governors Association

Toby Culshaw + Lightcast = ???

HR Next Level: come dati e AI stanno ridisegnando il ruolo del recruiter

Skills-Based Hiring & Adapting to the Speed of Skill Change

UK Skills Revolution Collaborator Group: Online discussion panel on skills and skills disruption