The Shared Language of the Labor Market
Replace imprecision with clarity. With a skills-first approach, employers can better understand their current workforce and future needs, education and workforce development leaders can align their training to business needs, and everyone can understand the labor market better so they can move forward with confidence.
Skills Are The Foundation.
Skills are the base unit of the labor market. They allow workers to clearly articulate their abilities and employers to clearly articulate their workforce needs. Skills define work itself—as opposed to degrees, which are static and often disconnected from current demand, or job titles, which are different across industries and organizations.
Too often, jobseekers, employers, educators, and community leaders talk past each other, using unclear terminology that limits how much each side can understand the others. Skills are the solution, because they create a shared language that everyone can speak. With skills, organizations can hire for what actually matters, expand talent pipelines, see workforce gaps clearly, and close them efficiently.
For Business
- Clearly identify gaps in your workforce and align hiring and development to close them
- Define roles based on required skills, improving hiring accuracy and internal mobility
For Education
- Align curriculum to in-demand skills so graduates are prepared for available roles
- Provide learners with a clear, consistent way to articulate the value of their education
For Public Sector
- Identify regional skill gaps and target workforce investment more effectively
- Align training programs to employer demand to reduce mismatch and improve outcomes
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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.
The Skills Advantage
Build For The Future.
Understand how skill demand is shifting and how your organization can adapt. Skills data shows which capabilities are emerging and declining, so you can create future-ready job architecture and role design.
Recruit With Precision.
Define roles based on required skills and target candidates who can perform the work. Improve hiring outcomes by focusing on capability, instead of ambiguous proxies.
Train With Confidence.
Design training and curricula around skills that are actively in demand nearby. Skills intelligence bridges the gap between learning and workforce outcomes, reducing the risk of misaligned investment.
Transform Your Organization.
Reshape roles, career paths, and workforce structure around skills instead of static job definitions, so you and your workforce can stay ready and adapt quickly when business and job requirements change.
Talent Transform
Workforce planning and transformation software built on a skills-based framework. Identify skill gaps, model workforce scenarios, and align talent strategy to business needs.
Disruptive Skills
An interactive tool to help predict the future of work. See the top-growing skills in your industry and their salary premium, so you can begin planning your organization’s future workforce needs.
Skillabi
Curriculum alignment software powered by labor market data. Map programs to in-demand skills and ensure learners are prepared for current roles.
SmartReq
Job description and role design software based on required skills. Create clearer requirements, improve hiring accuracy, and attract better-fit candidates.
Professional Profiles
The world’s most complete database of labor data from worker profiles. Analyze talent supply, career pathways, and how skills are distributed across the market.
Lightcast Skills API
Use our industry-leading library of over 34,000 skills—cleaned, organized, and vetted by our team of human experts—to make sure your internal data aligns with the broader labor market.
Skills Navigator
Interactive software for exploring skills, roles, and career pathways. Identify adjacent skills, map mobility paths, and support reskilling decisions.
Explore our Skills Library
At Lightcast, we collect millions of labor market data points every day. In order to make use of them, we need to recognize how they connect. Our taxonomies are how—generating actionable insight through connections.
The Speed of Skill Change
The average US job has seen one-third of its skills change from 2021 to 2024. See our breakdown of every occupation by its “Skill Disruption Index,” score on a scale of 0 to 100 and more in this Speed of Skill Change report.
Skills-Based Hiring
A skills-based approach finds qualified candidates who may have been previously overlooked. When you assess candidates based on the specific skills a job requires rather than college degrees or years of experience, HR professionals open the door to even more talent.
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