The Lightcast Data API provides direct access to the robust datasets that power Lightcast's software solutions. This API allows users the freedom to create custom data displays and applications tailored to their organization's specific needs. By piping data directly to your site, you can help students make informed decisions by adding data to your school's program pages, attract and retain businesses by displaying your region's strengths and labor availability, and integrate Lightcast into your hiring system to find the right talent faster. The Lightcast API ensures your application automatically displays the latest data, maintaining your brand identity while harnessing the power of Lightcast's datasets. It is ideal for those who want to integrate data directly into their existing platform, application, or website and have someone familiar with JSON and HTTP.

Features:

Pipe data directly to your site

• Help students make informed decisions by adding data to your school's program pages.

• Attract and retain businesses by displaying your region's strengths and labor availability

• Integrate Lightcast into your hiring system and strategy so that you find the right talent, faster.

• Same data, more freedom Mix and match data sources to build custom dashboards.

• Always up to date Your application will automatically display our latest data.

• Seamless integration Maintain your brand identity while harnessing the power of Lightcast's robust datasets

What data do you get?

• Industries Analyze your region's top industries and how they relate to the broader labor market.
• Occupations Earnings, historical occupation demographics, and projected employment and openings.
• Skills 30,000 real-world skills and competencies gathered from job postings, resumes, and professional profiles.
• Compensation Estimate salary ranges by region, skills, and experience.
• Completers Graduates by institution, program, and education level.
• Demographics Age, gender, ethnicity, and educational attainment for the population.
• Staffing Patterns Historical and projected employment, by occupation and industry.
• Assessments Holland Code-based assessment traits and question sets, will score and store completed assessments.
• Job Postings See real-time trends related to what skills employers in your region are looking for in new hires.