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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.
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.
Why organizations partner with Lightcast
Every workforce challenge is different. That's why every engagement starts with your goals—not a predefined methodology.
Our experts combine the world's most comprehensive labor market data with deep expertise in economics, workforce development, education, and talent strategy to deliver recommendations you can confidently act on.
Understand your challenge
Analyze labor market and skills data
Deliver actionable recommendations
Consulting capabilities
Skills-powered workforce strategy
Skills architecture
Skills mapping
Skills gap analysis
Future skills identification
Reskilling and upskilling
Career pathways
Internal mobility
Strategic workforce planning
Talent acquisition strategy
Talent supply and demand analysis
Compensation benchmarking
Competitive intelligence
Build-buy-borrow analysis
Job architecture
Job description optimization
Sector talent strategies
Talent attraction
Site selection
Migration analysis
Economic development strategy
Regional competitiveness
Industry analysis
Credential analysis
Program alignment
Career pathway design
Workforce pipeline development
Employer demand analysis
Custom datasets
Executive reports
Dashboards
Emerging trend analysis
Economic impact studies
Custom data exports
See our work in action
Here are a few select projects that showcase the breadth of work we manifest for clients across education, enterprise, and the public sector.
UNESCO - Global Skills Tracker
America Succeeds - Durable Skills
National Restaurant Association - Sector Dashboard
Action Greensboro - Economic Impact Analysis
Guild - Build, Buy, Borrow Dashboard
The Minnesota Business Partnership - Workforce Report
Let's solve your workforce challenge.
Whether you're transforming your workforce, strengthening your regional economy, or aligning education with labor market demand, our consulting team can help.