Simplifying Labour Market Complexity
An online series from Lightcast
About the Series
Our new resource, Simplifying Labour Market Complexity, explores how our global, granular, and responsive workforce dataset – built from our world-leading taxonomies – gives us the insights to make sense of highly complex labour markets. We’re now diving into the detail with a series of events aimed at guiding organisations through the application of this data, including for major policy initiatives such as the industrial strategy, devolution agenda, and skills system reform. We kick off with a webinar that is open to all, followed by a number of innovation, training, and roundtable events that are exclusive to Lightcast customers.
Webinar Open to Everyone
Our world-leading taxonomies have enabled us to build a comprehensive workforce dataset that is truly global, highly granular, and fully responsive, helping us to make sense of the vast complexities of today’s labour markets. In this webinar, we look at how this can help us understand sectors such as Advanced Manufacturing, Cybersecurity, and Clean Energy, and discuss how this dataset provides a strong, evidence-based foundation for tackling many of the UK’s major policy drives — including the industrial strategy, the devolution agenda, and reform of the skills system.
Customer Training Session
In this session for customers of our Analyst platform, we’ll explore how you can use the tool to benefit from our world-class occupation and skills taxonomies. As well as a demonstration of how these taxonomies enable you to get insights that are far richer than the official classifications, we’ll also be considering some of the practical use cases of this relating to agendas such as industrial strategy, the devolution agenda, and the skills system. If you are a customer, you can register for this event by clicking the button below.
Customer Innovation Groups
Further Education Innovation Group
In this session, our Global Taxonomy Manager, Hal Bonella, will share insights into how our occupation and skills taxonomies are developed and the reasons behind their creation. We'll explore how they can be applied to specific Further Education use cases, look at some of the new features in our Analyst platform, and share what’s coming next in our development roadmap.
For more details, email Alex Kennedy at alex.kennedy@lightcast.io.
Public Sector Innovation Group
In this session, we’ll be looking at how Lightcast’s Occupation and Skills Taxonomies can simplify labour market complexity and help us to better understand the UK’s growth-driving sectors prioritised within the Industrial Strategy. The session will be highly practical, with the use of workable examples to help customers understand how to best apply our taxonomies to policy-based priorities.
For more details, email Will Cookson at william.cookson@lightcast.io.
Regional Government Innovation Group
This session will explore how to analyse complex, local labour market trends through the lens of skills taxonomies. With themes including the use of data in the context of devolution, Local Skills Improvement Plans, and the Adult Skills Fund, attendees will gain practical guidance on how to align LMI with policy and funding frameworks to better support local economic and skills planning.
For more details, email Lester Biddle at lester.biddle@lightcast.io.
Higher Education Innovation Group
This session will explore the crucial role Lightcast taxonomies play in making complex labour market data more accessible and actionable, supporting strategic decision making in HE. The session will include a case study from a leading university, showcasing how they've applied taxonomies to inform portfolio review, and guide new programme development using global labour market data.
For more details, email Carrie Williams at carrie.williams@lightcast.io.
Customer Roundtable
Most regions have a number of organisations working hard to achieve similar economic, employment and skills goals. However, too often they work independently, rather than collaboratively, to solve these challenges. This discussion will bring together key stakeholders from the worlds of Higher Education, Further Education, and Regional Economic Development in Cornwall, to talk about how they are using Lightcast data, and how it can be used to foster closer collaboration between them to solve regional challenges.
