Disruptive Skills Matrix
Identify the skills that are critical for your organization's future success.
The Disruptive Skills Matrix
The Disruptive Skills Matrix gives a high-level view of the projected change in demand and cost of skills over the next two years to empower your workforce planning.
Lightcast skills data is predictive.
With the future of work always changing, you need to be able to anticipate what’s next.
A custom Lightcast Disruptive Skills Matrix will help organizations like yours understand the skills landscape for your critical roles in order to predict and plan your next move.
With this tool you can:
See the top growing skills in your industry
See the salary premium for those skills
Begin planning for your organization's future skill needs
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Quadrant Descriptions
Escalators
Low cost to hire Moderate need for new training programs Moderate risk to future productivity
Stabilizers
Low cost to hire Weak need for new training programs Low risk to future productivity
Disruptors
High cost to hire Strong need for new training programs High risk to future productivity
Challengers
High cost to hire Moderate need for new training programs Moderate risk to future productivity
Skills Types
Lightcast offers an open-source library of 32,000+ skills gathered from hundreds of millions of online job postings, profiles, and resumes.
Specialized Skills
Skills that are primarily required within a subset of occupations or equip one to perform a specific task (e.g. "NumPy" or "Hotel Management"). Also known as technical skills or hard skills.
Axis Metrics
To measure the evolution of skill requirements in the labor market, Lightcast has developed a robust and dynamic skills taxonomy based on its analysis of hundreds of millions of online job postings, resumes, and social profiles.
Skill Value
The difference in market salary for a role with and without a given skill requirement expressed as a percentile (e.g., for a skill in the 50th percentile, half of all skills command a lower salary premium).
Projected Growth
This metric forecasts two-year skills growth, identifying skills that are growing or declining compared to other skills.
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