Universal Standard
Over the past 25 years, Lightcast has become the market leader in labor market analysis, classification, modeling, and technical innovation. Our tools provide a durable framework that's interoperable 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.
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.
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Looking for a specific skill? Search our library for free. Explore 35,000+ skills that we’ve collected from hundreds of millions of job postings, resumes, and online profiles.
The Lightcast Skills Taxonomy delivers clarity by allowing everyone to speak the same language. Use our free open standard API to articulate your skills needs, and leave the details to us: our dedicated team of taxonomists and engineers cleans, checks, and updates each entry so that you always have the most accurate and up-to-date picture of the labor market.
Are you a nonprofit pursuing a public good? Lightcast Skills API is freely available to you because we believe in using data for good and creating a labor market that works for everyone. Through the shared language of skills, we can enable a world where every worker and every job can find their best fits as efficiently as easily as possible.
