Simplifying and standardizing the job title ecosystem.
The Lightcast Titles taxonomy is designed to help companies clean up their chaotic job titles, so they can transform the way they benchmark their talent.
Lightcast Titles: Simplifying Job Data with Innovation
At Lightcast, we’ve built something unique with our Lightcast Titles Taxonomy—a powerful tool that transforms messy, real-world job titles into clear, well-classified data. Starting with millions of unique raw job titles from postings and profiles, our advanced modeling distills them into a manageable set of about 75,000 standardized titles. It’s like turning a chaotic library into a neatly organized catalog—without losing the essence of each job.
Connecting Jobs, Skills, and Occupations
Job titles don’t always fit neatly into boxes. For example, an “Air Traffic Controller” clearly matches the “Traffic Controller” occupation in our Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy (LOT). But not every title is so straightforward, and that’s where our innovation shines. Using our advanced models, classifiers, and taxonomic expertise, Lightcast Titles Taxonomy is a dynamic system that empowers organizations to:
Standardize job title data for consistency across their workforce.
Connect internal data to external labor market insights.
Tap into rich resources like LOT and Lightcast Skills libraries.
Think of the connection to our other taxonomies, such as LOT, as a very smart organizer of titles: it takes a collection of job titles – like Subway’s “Sandwich Artist” – and groups them with relevant job titles commonly used by employers and job seekers within the labor market – such as “Fast Food Worker” – for meaningful analysis. This structured classification of job titles, roles, or similar labels, is essential to be able to make accurate comparisons, facilitate integration with other systems (such as HR software), support better reporting (such as benchmarking or workforce planning), and compare programs across countries, regions, or metros. It’s a simple idea, executed with cutting-edge precision, to unlock labor market intelligence and help business leaders, policymakers and educators make decisions using a broader market perspective.