Skills
That Work
Skills are the foundation of the labor market, and they can enable every individual, employer, educator, and community leader to succeed in the labor market. Here are the use cases and solutions that show you how.
A skills-powered approach enables a labor market that works for everyone.
Understanding skills is the first step to unlocking new possibilities throughout labor market. Using skills,
Employers can find the talent they need and develop their workforce for the future.
Educators can better understand labor market needs and help students see and prepare to meet them.
Communities can align local institutions, businesses, and individuals to maximize a region's economic potential.
Individuals can more clearly see what a job requires, and better tailor their education and training toward the opportunities they want to pursue.
The labor market is changing fast, but that doesn't mean you can't stay ahead of the curve. Skills create the understanding to light the path forward.
Lightcast delivers clarity on skills for educators, employers, communities, and individuals. Pick one to get started.
Skills Solutions For Every Organization
Skills help create a labor market that works for everyone.
Education
Educators can better understand labor market needs and help students see and prepare to meet them.
Employers
Employers can find the talent they need and develop their workforce for the future.
Public Sector
Communities can align local institutions, businesses, and individuals to maximize a region's economic potential.
Individuals
Individuals can more clearly see what a job requires, and better tailor their education and training toward the opportunities they want to pursue.
Skills That Work For Education Institutions
Skillabi
Skillabi shows how the skills you teach align with the skills employers want. Building on the foundation of the Lightcast Skills Extractor, the platform uses a direct, skills-to-skills comparison to translate your course content into work-relevant skills that are recognized and valued by employers. Using the Lightcast Skills Library provides Skillabi with unparalleled precision for evaluating curriculum alignment so that students succeed.
Skills Extractor
Use our free skills extractor to parse useful and in-demand skills from your syllabi using the power of the Lightcast Skills Library. Students can also use the tool to extract skills from resumes or job postings.
Skill Categories
Dive into our Skills Library yourself. We have over 30 skills categories, which act as a way to logically group the thousands of entries in our database and create a hierarchy to easily view related skills.
Skills prepare students for lifelong success.
Education providers need to understand skills because they matter to the learners they serve—and the employers that hire their graduates.
In an economy driven by technology and rapid skill change, it’s become essential to evaluate and articulate learning content using a skills based approach. Doing so enables colleges and universities (and the entities that support them) to more effectively align education with career success, and more clearly articulate the value of their offerings to today’s learners.
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Access our library of over 34,000 skills. Each has a name, a unique machine-readable identifier, and a type (technical skill, human skill, certification/license).
Skills are how employers attract, retain, and promote their talent.
The labor market is as tight as it's ever been, and the stakes are high for businesses to find new employees and make effective use of the workers they have. A skills based approach can provide the answer.
Skills-powered hiring expands potential hiring pools with more diverse talent, shortens time to fill roles, and allows you to benchmark against competitors and attract more qualified candidates. A better understanding of skills also allows you to better understand your workforce for a more comprehensive planning and development strategy. The labor market is changing fast, and skills are how you can stay ahead of the curve.
Benefits of skills-powered hiring:
Expand your talent pool with more diverse talent
Shorten time-to-fill and save on unnecessary hiring costs
Benchmark against competitors to attract more qualified candidates
API
Integrate Lightcast skills data into your hiring system and strategy to find the right talent, faster.
Software Solutions
Use actionable skills data to inform talent acquisition strategies, optimize job descriptions, and target the right markets.
Workforce Consulting
Optimize your hiring process with custom data sets, personalized analysis, and targeted recommendations.
Skills Resources for Enterprise and Staffing
The Speed of Skill Change
Over the past three years, the average job has seen 32% of its skills change. It's abundantly clear that the labor market today is much different than the labor market of three years ago—and now, skills give us a lens to see exactly how much.
Solutions for Skills-Powered Hiring
Map job titles to skills and standardize your job architecture.
Consider skills with comprehensive labor market data to strengthen your overall job architecture and more specifically, your role skill profiles. A skills-based approach helps you achieve market-optimized job titles and job hierarchies.
Analyze and benchmark current and future market skill needs.
Assess current and future skills requirements within each role by competitor and industry benchmarking, skill forecasts, and identification of emerging and disruptive skill needs.
Architect market-optimized skill and role profiles.
Understand skill profiles to create market-aligned job titles, salary ranges, advancement pathways, education and work experience requirements, skills proficiency levels, and more.
Optimize job descriptions and fill jobs with qualified candidates.
Expand your talent pool, increase candidate diversity, and reduce hiring costs with targeted skill and credential requirements.
Time to put skills to use.
We'd love to show you how Lightcast can help you make informed hiring decisions. Get in touch to see skills in action and elevate your people strategy.
Skills connect local workers to local jobs.
Community leaders and developers use skills to more accurately describe what businesses need and what the local workforce can supply. The result is better connections: employers find the workers they need, jobseekers find their best-fit jobs, and development organizations know how to provide training that sets workers up for future success— all using a skills based approach.
See how Lightcast skills can make a difference in local workforces: explore the products, resources, and free tools below.
Developer
Our premier data platform with the most comprehensive labor market insight for your community. Developer combines millions of job postings and online profiles to deliver granular, accessible analysis on jobs and skills for any region.
Custom Portals
Use real-time data on jobs and careers to expand the pool of talent available for an entire industry. Custom, organization-specific portals can help potential workers understand what your field has to offer and guide them towards meaningful opportunities. Expand your potential talent pool with skills.
Read More About Putting Skills To Use
Rebuilding Our Semiconductor Workforce
The CHIPS Act is infusing billions of dollars of investment into semiconductor manufacturing—and that means hiring new workers to manufacture them. Regions where workers have the relevant skills are where employers want to invest. Our free report shows lays out the need and how communities can make their case to meet it.
Using Skills To Strengthen Regions
Speaking the common language of skills can bring educators, companies, and workforce and economic developers together to address the talent needs of specific regions and industries. Skills also have the agility and granularity to show a community's existing strengths to inform local talent strategies.
This free research shows real-world examples and actionable next steps for skills in communities.
Free Skills Tools
Skills Extractor
Employers and individuals can use our free skills extractor to parse useful and in-demand skills from resumes, job postings, and even course syllabi using the power of the Lightcast Skills Library.
Skills are how you show your value in the job market.
You know what you're capable of—now you need to show it. Knowing how your skills align with available jobs is the first step in unlocking labor market success. And when you articulate them in a way that employers understand, you're in a better position to start strong in the labor market and continue growing throughout your career. We have the tools and resources to help you on your way.
Use your skills to unlock success in the labor market. Explore free Lightcast resources and tools below.
Resume Optimizer
A skills-based solution. Enter or upload your resume to see what skills it identifies, uncover new opportunities, and understand how well it lines up with the job you want.
Start Using the Lightcast Skills API
Ready for more?
Access our library of over 34,000 skills. Each has a name, a unique machine-readable identifier, and a type (technical skill, human skill, certification/license).