Lightcast Taxonomies provide a structured approach to understanding the labor market by organizing skills, occupations, and job titles. These taxonomies enable businesses, communities, educators, and individuals to create a job market that works for everyone. The taxonomies clarify the relationships between jobs and skills, allowing for greater efficiency and optimization in the world of work. An occupation describes the role a person performs, a title is what the individual's job is called, and skills are used to accomplish it. Lightcast collects millions of labor market data points daily and uses these taxonomies to recognize how they connect. The Lightcast Open Skills Library contains over 32,000 skills, while the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy organizes over 1,900 specialized occupations. Lightcast Titles refines millions of raw titles into a standardized set of over 75,000 titles. These taxonomies are updated regularly to reflect emerging skills and roles, providing real-time insights into the labor market.

Features:

Open Skills Library The entire labor market depends on skills—they're how you understand what a job demands and what a worker can supply. A skill can be anything from a formal certification to soft skills like collaboration and time management.

• Granular: Detailed enough to account for a variety of specific jobs and skills.
• Specific: Accounts for both general skill areas as well as more distinct skills.
• Global: Can be used across different businesses, industries, regions, or countries.
• Responsive: Updated regularly, accounting for emerging skills and technologies.

Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy The Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy is how we organize occupations internally—and, like Open Skills, it comes from what we see in real-world postings and profiles.

• Career areas: Generally adhere to different industries.
• Occupation groups: Subsectors of career areas.
• Occupations: Roles within an occupation group that point towards distinct goals.
• Specialized occupations: Clusters of job titles and skills that define recognizable roles in the labor market.

Lightcast Titles Lightcast Titles are an important part of the infrastructure supporting the function of the skills and occupation taxonomies. From the millions of raw titles collected from postings and profiles, our modeling team refines them down into a more standardized and accessible number (currently near 75,000).

• Organizations can create a consistent standard to organize their core jobs data.
• Create a connection to external labor market data.
• Connect to useful taxonomies like LOT and Open Skills.
• Creates universal meaning versus an inward-looking limited view.