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

Education

Overview of key findings and trends from the latest National Alumni Career Mobility report

A deep dive into the strategic influencers institutions can use to improve equity and outcomes

Learn best practices and hear an overview of key findings and trends from last year’s National Alumni Career Mobility and Embark First Destination surveys.

Alumni Career Insights from the 2024 NACM Annual Report

Alumni Surveys Research Fellow 

Alumni Career Insights: Takeaways from the 2024 NACM Annual Report

Alumni Outcomes

Learn how Lightcast's newly acquired alumni surveys can benefit your institution. 

How Alumni Surveys Provide Insight for Learner Success

Using alumni feedback to drive high-impact career readiness practices on campus

How Alumni Surveys Provide Insight for Learner Career Success

Lightcast's Alumni Pathways platform has been helping colleges and universities improve and demonstrate their value with alumni outcomes data since 2016. Now, new features will allow you to get more insights into your alumni data than ever before. 

Alumni Pathways Innovation Update

New tools to measure and improve learner career success

Explore how educational institutions benefit from detailed alumni employment data that goes beyond what’s available through surveys and public sources. Join guest speakers from the WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and Lake Washington Institute of Technology to learn best practices for using this data effectively.

Alumni Career Insights: Takeaways from the 2024 NACM Annual Report

Speakers

Alumni Surveys Research Fellow

Key Topics

More webinars from Lightcast

How Alumni Surveys Provide Insight for Learner Career Success

Alumni Pathways Innovation Update

Using Alumni Career Outcomes Data to Attract Funding and Support Guided Pathways