Labor Market Intelligence
Labor market intelligence helps organizations understand how work is changing, where talent is available, and how to stay ahead of disruption.
With clearer data on jobs, skills, wages, supply, demand, and career pathways, leaders can make better decisions about hiring, training, planning, and growth.
For Business
- Forecast workforce needs and identify where talent is available before gaps become urgent
- Align hiring, training, and location strategy to real labor market conditions
For Education
- Connect programs and credentials to the jobs, skills, and wages learners are pursuing
- Use labor market data to guide future training and prepare students for real opportunities
For Public Sector
- Identify regional workforce gaps and target investment where it can have the greatest impact
- Build stronger career pathways that connect jobseekers, training providers, and employers
Labor Market Intelligence Turns Signals Into Strategy.
Employers are trying to find the right talent, educators are trying to prepare learners for real opportunities, and public leaders are trying to build stronger regional economies. Labor market intelligence intelligence delivers the insight you need at the point of decision: showing what jobs exist, what skills are needed, where talent is located, and how opportunity is changing.
While work intelligence focuses on how work gets done (providing data on skills, tasks, and occupations), and organizational intelligence focuses on benchmarks, impact, and context, labor market intelligence focuses on the supply and demand of workers.
Labor market intelligence also enables better decisions today to shape better outcomes tomorrow. When organizations understand career pathways, emerging occupations, changing skill requirements, and regional labor trends, they can invest in future training with more confidence. That means bigger talent pipelines, more market-aligned programs, stronger mobility, and less mismatch between people and opportunity.
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Why Lightcast?
Lightcast is the global leader in understanding the labor market. Our proprietary taxonomies, advanced AI, and expert guidance transform complex data into clear, actionable intelligence. Our real-world labor market data—including over 3 billion job postings, 1.2 billion career profiles, and over 100 government sources—enables more accurate planning, better hiring decisions, and a clearer understanding of how to make the global labor market work for everyone.
Labor Market Intelligence That Works For You
Craft Smarter Strategies
Plan around real labor market conditions instead of assumptions. Workforce intelligence helps you forecast demand, identify talent gaps, and build strategies that reflect how work is actually changing and where the market is moving.
Understand Career Pathways
See how people move between jobs, skills, programs, and industries. With clearer pathway data, organizations can support mobility, design better training, and help workers move toward stronger opportunities—which improves retention, too.
See How You Compare
Benchmark your workforce, programs, wages, and skills against the broader labor market. Understand where you’re competitive, where there are gaps, and where you need to take action.
Find New Markets
Evaluate locations based on the workers, skills, wages, and industries that matter most to your goals. Labor-focused location strategy helps organizations expand, recruit, and invest with greater precision.
Labor Market Intelligence Products and Solutions
Analyst/Talent Analyst
Labor market analytics software for workforce leaders. Evaluate programs, understand demand, and align offerings with real career opportunities.
Developer
Regional labor market and economic analysis software for public-sector leaders. Analyze industries, occupations, and talent supply to guide workforce and economic strategy.
Career Coach
Career exploration software for learners, jobseekers, and institutions. Connect users to careers, skills, wages, and local job opportunities to support better decisions.
Alumni Pathways
Outcomes analytics software for higher education. Track alumni careers, salaries, employers, and skills to measure program impact and improve alignment.
Talent Migration Dashboard
Workforce mobility dashboard for economic development and public-sector teams. Visualize where talent is moving and shape attraction and retention strategies.
Professional Services
Workforce consulting for business, education, and government leaders. Turn labor market data into custom analysis, reports, and actionable strategy.
eIMPACT
Customizable dashboards that display organization statistics and workforce data to help drive economic growth.
Embark
Elevate decision making and demonstrate ROI with career outcomes data from the Embark first destination survey.
NACM
The National Alumni Career Mobility survey provides a robust set of insights on career preparation, satisfaction, and economic mobility to assist higher ed decision makers.
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Whether you're planning your workforce, aligning education to demand, or strengthening regional economies, we're here to help. Fill out the form to connect with a data expert and explore the right solution for your organization.
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Labor market intelligence is just one of the ways Lightcast creates meaning from the world's workforce data. It works in concert with work intelligence and organizational intelligence to illuminate the entire world of work—so you can find the option that best fits your needs.
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