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Solve your most complex workforce challenges with custom research, workforce intelligence, and expert consulting.
Trusted Advisory
Lightcast's economists, labor market experts, data scientists, and workforce strategists help organizations transform workforce data into actionable strategies for talent, education, and economic growth.
What we can help you deliver
Skills Transformation
Build skills strategies, identify future-ready capabilities, map skills across roles, and develop practical roadmaps for workforce transformation.
Workforce Strategy
Make smarter decisions about workforce planning, talent supply, labor demand, and organizational readiness.
Talent Insights
Optimize recruiting, sourcing, compensation, internal mobility, and location strategy using labor market data.
Community & Economic Development
Strengthen regional talent pipelines, industry competitiveness, and workforce resilience.
Education & Credential Alignment
Ensure programs, credentials, and curriculum reflect employer demand and emerging workforce needs.
Custom Research
Answer unique workforce questions through bespoke research, analytics, and executive recommendations.
Custom consulting tailored to your needs
Prescriptive Consulting Services
Solve your most pressing talent challenges with in-depth consulting and custom research to answer key questions related to strategic workforce planning and other critical talent issues.
Programmatic Consulting Services
Data at scale for analysis, modeling, and product design through custom software exports, datasets, reports, and more to build your specific workforce strategies.
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Key outcomes we've helped organizations achieve
A large manufacturing company
was able to respond to digital transformation efforts by identifying and developing internal reskilling and advancement pathways, reducing their talent acquisition costs by up to $1.5 million.
A multinational retailer
quickly built an adaptable skill architecture and inventory for thousands of roles within 10 weeks, compared to the over six month timeline they anticipated with a traditional assessment or survey-based approach.
A large software company
created a targeted recruitment strategy using normalized job titles to provide accurate diversity and inclusion benchmarks for their skilled and college graduate workforce.
Custom consulting offerings tailored to your needs:
Skills-First Hiring
- Skills transformation and roadmapping
- Job and skill architecture
- Future-ready skills identification
- Skills gap analysis
- Skill proficiency levels
Competitive Benchmarking
- Compensation benchmarking
- Competitor talent intelligence
- Industry benchmarking
Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Build, Buy, Borrow optimization
- Job description optimization
- Sourcing strategy
- Talent pipeline strategy
Geolocation Strategy
- Site selection
- Global and regional sourcing strategy
- Remote worker strategy
Talent Development
- Career pathways & internal mobility
- Reskilling and upskilling strategy
- Turnover and retention analysis
- Internal career exploration portals
Lightcast Advisory
On-demand advisory support: Custom: * Data pulls * Expert briefings * Short-form reports * Dashboards
How it works:
1. Tell us the workforce problem you are trying to solve.
2. Our workforce consultants analyze billions of data points and evaluate a custom solution.
3. We deliver comprehensive insights, data, and recommendations to help you navigate the changing world of work.
4. Translate the results to your business leaders, with our guidance.
What are the problems you're ready to solve? Let's work together.
Connect with a Lightcast Talent Workforce Consulting team member and utilize data to build a personalized talent strategy.