Your Mission and Our Insight
Making decisions relating to your local economy is hard if you don't have confidence in the insight you’re basing those decisions on. Our aim is to give you both certainty and peace of mind that the decisions your organisation takes to fulfil your mission are based on the best and most appropriately detailed local Labour Market Insight available.
Why Work with Lightcast?
We’re not interested in just being another data provider. What we want is to offer you the kind of insight that will genuinely help your organisation better understand your local labour market, so that you can make both strategic and tactical decisions that will make a huge difference to the lives of the people your organisation affects. To find out more about what makes our insight special, how we deliver it, and how it can help your organisation, get in touch.
ContactWhat Makes us Uniquely Placed to Help Your Organisation?
By joining the hundreds of organisations across the UK and globally who have turned to us for help in solving their labour market challenges, you’ll benefit from our expertise in three key areas, which together form a package we are confident no other labour market data company can offer you:
With over two decades experience developing and enriching both structural Labour Market Insight and Job Posting Analytics, we are confident we can offer you a dataset describing local, regional and national labour markets that is unparalleled in its breadth and depth.
Whilst our data is the engine of all we do, we deliver it in a variety of ways according to needs and budgets, including a variety of intuitive software platforms, direct data access through APIs and Snowflake, as well as consulting reports answering more complex labour market queries.
Along with the quality of our data and our products, we are passionate about giving you the best possible customer service, which we offer by employing a team of sector experts to onboard, train and support you and help you get maximum value from your investment with us.
How Do We Deliver Our Labour Market Insight to You?
Our data is delivered in a variety of ways to suit differing needs and budgets. These are:
Our flagship platform, Analyst, gives you instant access to key intelligence on jobs, skills and industries, at all geographical levels down to local authority. We also offer a number of sector-specific dashboards, as well as our hugely successful Career Coach Suite.
Our dataset can also be accessed through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), as well as Snowflake, giving you complete flexibility to use the data throughout your organisation in a number of ways, including integration into your Business Intelligence tools and CRMs.
For more complex labour market queries, we offer a variety of applied research solutions, tailored to your needs, which draw on the expertise of our economists and data analysts to answer the specific questions and challenges your organisation is trying to solve.
Check out our 7 point customer pledge to see how we will provide ongoing support to ensure you get the most out of our solutions.
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Which Sector Are You in?
Further Education
Colleges and training providers are using our data for planning a curriculum that meets local skills needs, engaging with local employers, and showing both prospective and existing students how their courses can lead to future careers.
Higher Education
Universities are using our data for aligning their portfolio to industry needs, engaging with employers, improving graduate employment outcomes, marketing their courses, and identifying target markets for international student recruitment.
Communities & Government
Organisations involved in economic development are using our data for better understanding their labour market, identifying local economic strengths, assessing skills needs, and keeping up-to-date with ongoing employer demand.