Work Intelligence
Replace imprecision with clarity. Work intelligence uses skills, tasks, and occupations to help organizations understand how work gets done—so you can connect the right workers with the right jobs, optimize your workforce strategy, and be ready for an evolving future.
For Business
Modernize job architecture using current market definitions of occupations, tasks, and skills.
Identify workforce gaps, assess AI exposure, and align hiring, development, and workforce planning with business needs.
For Education
Understand how occupations, tasks, and skill requirements are changing across industries.
Align curricula and credentials with the capabilities employers need now and are likely to need next.
For Public Sector
Identify changes in regional occupations, workforce capabilities, and employer demand.
Direct workforce and economic development investments toward the areas with the greatest need and opportunity.
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. Too often, jobseekers, employers, educators, and talk past each other, using unclear terminology but skills 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.
Occupations offer structure.
Occupations—the actual job that a worker performs—are fundamental to work intelligence because they’re the primary way individuals relate to the labor market. The Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy (LOT) creates a common language for describing the roles that exist across the global labor market. That shared language makes it possible to compare work across companies, industries, and countries, and to connect occupations directly to the skills and tasks that define them.
Tasks go into detail.
Drawing on our decades of experience analyzing occupations and skills, Lightcast has also created a taxonomy of tasks to understand how work gets done at the most granular, day-to-day level. Tasks describe how a worker spends their time and what they accomplish on the job—which connects to the skills they use to do them, and the occupation they fill. The Lightcast task taxonomy groups tasks into 300 subcategories and 30 categories, with over 37,000 task-to-occupation relationships and more than 500,000 task-to-skill combinations.
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Why Lightcast?
Lightcast is the global leader in labor market insight. 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.
Skills are fundamental to this approach. Our proprietary taxonomy of 34,000+ skills is derived from observed demand and continuously updated to reflect how work is evolving. Each entry in the taxonomy is structured, standardized, and validated to remove noise and inconsistency. By connecting skills directly to jobs and workforce trends, Lightcast helps organizations make smarter, faster decisions based on reliable, defensible data.
Work Intelligence Lets You:
Build A Future-Ready Workforce
See how occupations, tasks, and skill requirements are changing across the market. Use task and skill intelligence to create clearer job profiles, modernize job architecture, and distinguish between similar roles.
See Career Pathways
Help workers and jobseekers understand how one role connects to the next. Use adjacent skills to identify gaps and plan training so the right workers find the right jobs.
Adapt To AI Confidently
Assess AI transformation at the task level, where technological change actually affects work. Identify which activities may be automated, augmented, or redesigned and determine which skills will become more important as roles evolve.
Transform Your Organization
Connect workforce planning, talent acquisition, learning, compensation, and mobility through a shared understanding of work. Benchmark internal information against the external market and focus investment where it can have the greatest impact.
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.
Work Intelligence Products and Solutions
Workforce planning and transformation software built on a skills-based framework. Identify skill gaps, model workforce scenarios, and align talent strategy to business needs.
All-in-one software for understanding the labor market. Make smarter decisions with billions of data points on supply, demand, compensation, skills, and more.
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.
Curriculum alignment software powered by labor market data. Map programs to in-demand skills and ensure learners are prepared for current roles.
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.
Job description and role design software based on required skills. Create clearer requirements, improve hiring accuracy, and attract better-fit candidates.
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.
Access 1,800+ specialized occupations in the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy, including machine-readable IDs, nested categories, and unique occupation types — to support structured analytics and smart mapping.
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-Powered Hiring
A skills 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.
Work Intelligence
That Works For You
You can’t accomplish your business goal when your internal data is disconnected from the external labor market.
Get in touch to see how you can use skills, occupations, and tasks in concert to optimize your workforce. Work Intelligence gives you the flexibility and agility to adapt rapidly to a fast changing world of work
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Work intelligence is just one of the ways Lightcast creates meaning from the world's workforce data. It works together with organizational intelligence and labor market intelligence to illuminate the entire world of work—so you can find the insight and delivery option that best fits your needs.
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