'Fault Lines' is here! Our comprehensive research on the forces reshaping the global labor market.
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Labor Data That Works For You.
Build your future with trusted insight into jobs and skills. Lightcast gives leaders the data they need to unlock new possibilities in the labor market.
Lightcast provides best-in-class global labor market data so you can make better workforce decisions
POWERING SOLUTIONS FOR
Enterprise Education Government
Confident Decisions In Any Global Market
Lightcast data covers 165 countries, representing markets that make up 99% of the world's GDP.
Workforce decisions don’t stop at borders, and with Lightcast, your workforce data doesn't either. We deliver actionable, granular insights so you can easily understand local labor conditions in every market where you operate. Our four Global Data Sets organize every country by data coverage so you can make confident, informed workforce decisions worldwide.
Data + insights however you want them
Data Delivery
With direct access to the most comprehensive labor datasets in the world through us, you have ultimate flexibility to create custom data displays and applications that power decisions.
Software
Conducting research is simple with Lightcast tools — explore interactive maps and graphs, share them with your team, and cut bloated data workflows down to a few clicks.
Professional Services
Our team of consultants and data scientists apply Lightcast’s advanced labor market information to any question — uncovering measurable strategies with a clear roadmap for growth.
Trusted by Industry Innovators and Market Leaders Globally
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Years of Experience
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Of the Fortune 100
775
Workforce and Economic Developement Orgs
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Educational Institutions
We're seeing fault lines in the global labor market.
Comprehensive Solutions for Better Decisions
Skills-Based Hiring
Place skills at the heart of your talent strategy—expand your talent pool, shorten time-to-fill, benchmark against rivals using Lightcast Talent Transform.
Program Development
Design academic programs with labor market insights, to prepare learners for career success by mapping to industry needs using Lightcast Skillabi.
Alumni Tracking
Unlock insight into your students' education and career pathways via our Lightcast Alumni Pathways and outcomes survey tools.
Workforce Planning
Find data-backed insights to plan for future skills and talent needs. Tap into the full picture of labor market data, using Lightcast Analyst.
Business Attraction
Create prosperity by using labor data in Lightcast Developer to help bring businesses to your area, creating jobs, and generating economic activity.
Global Talent Strategies
Elevate your talent strategy and unlock new possibilities with Lightcast data. Our reach and granularity leads the market with an unparalleled level of detail and insight.
Forces Reshaping the Global Labor Market
Fault Lines
The ground beneath the global labor market is shifting.
Whether you’re hiring talent, educating the next generation, or steering economic policy, Fault Lines delivers insight into the convergence of geopolitics, A, and workforce scarcity—and outlines the strategic implications for what comes next.
The Geography of Talent
Talent Attraction Scorecard 2025
How does your region stack up?
We're celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Lightcast Talent Attraction Scorecard with new rankings for every state and metro area in the US. From retirement destinations to remote-work hotspots, see the biggest winners and top trends in 2025.
AI SKILLS
Beyond The Buzz
AI has already rewritten the rules of workforce value. Whether you’re planning corporate L&D, training students, or creating any workforce strategy with an eye to the future, Beyond The Buzz provides actionable takeaways to guide your AI skills strategy–and introduces our AI Skills Disruption Matrix™.
Labor Trends
Workforce Risk Outlook
Using the Fortune 1000 as a representation of multinational companies across 15 critical industries, Lightcast assessed how labor market pressures will continue to impact organizations across operational models, critical roles, geographic markets, and changing skills.
A Demographic Drought Report
The Rising Storm
The population is aging and fewer and fewer people are entering the workforce. This perfect storm of demographic and workforce trends will lead to unprecedented disruption in the labor market. What are the forces shaping this storm, and how can you prepare?
SKILLS VELOCITY
The Speed of Skill Change
Every job is changing. It's 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. Change in the labor market is often gauged through job transitions, and jobs created and lost. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.
Our Data: Comprehensive. Contextualized. Actionable.
Lightcast has compiled more than 18 billion labor market data points, including job postings, career profiles, and compensation data, into a compounded knowledge asset—a collection of labor market intelligence that draws on over 25 years of expertise in data classification, sophisticated machine learning models, and taxonomies of jobs and skills.
While labor market data has traditionally been fragmented and complex, Lightcast data creates clarity so that enterprises, educators, and the public sector can build their workforce strategies with confidence.