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Job Postings

Who Wants Which Workers?

The Lightcast Job Postings API provides data about the demand for US workers by showing the job postings that employers are creating. This includes both historic trends and also the most up-to-date insight possible (data updates daily).

With the Job Postings API, you can uncover a wealth of data-driven insights that revolutionize the way you navigate the job market. When you understand what employers are asking for, you gain crucial insight to fuel your strategies, refine your decision-making processes, and gain a competitive edge.

Available Region-Specific Postings:
Global Postings
UK Postings
Canada Postings

Available Company-Specific Postings:
Company Direct

The Lightcast Job Postings API Allows You To:

Comprehensive and Reliable Data

For everyone involved with the labor market, Lightcast job posting data provides the tools you need to make data-driven decisions, seize new opportunities, and stay ahead of a dynamic world of work. Powered by our proprietary, best-in-class taxonomies, the Lightcast Job Postings API delivers the most accurate understanding of job postings on the market, delivered in the exact way you need it.

Worker Profiles

Workers Profiles (anonymized)

When someone uploads their resume or work experience online, that data provides helpful clues about their employers, occupations, skills, and geography. The Lightcast Profiles API aggregates, anonymizes, and standardizes that data to show what kinds of workers are doing which jobs.

Imagine the Profiles API as being on the opposite side of the coin as the Job Postings API: profiles show US supply while postings show US demand. Lightcast worker profile data allows you extract meaningful patterns and trends to help make data-driven decisions and develop targeted marketing strategies. And because it uses data workers themselves supply, these insights are more reliable than any third-party research. For a global view of worker profiles, explore here.

Worker Profiles (with contact information)

Lightcast Profiles with contact information provide the missing link between insight and action. Organizations gain compliant, up-to-date professional and contact data that enables deeper understanding and more effective engagement. Lightcast Profiles available via APIs provides:

Classification API

Make The Data Work For You

Understanding the billions of data points associated with the labor market means organizing them in a way that makes sense to you and your organization. There are plenty of tools available—at Lightcast, we've developed our own proprietary taxonomies to help process skills, occupations, and job titles, but there are also external classification systems from government statistics agencies and other organizations.

The Classification API is your primary tool for parsing and working across the many taxonomies available in Lightcast data. It allows you to see the full view of a given taxonomy and also provides the basis for mapping data points across different taxonomies. Use it to extract and classify bodies of text using whatever system works best for your needs.

Taxonomies that are surfaced within the Classification API include: 

• Lightcast Open Skills

• Lightcast Titles Taxonomy

• Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy (LOT)

• SOC 

• NOC 

• SIC 

• NAICS

• ISCO

Core Labor Market Information (LMI)

Government Data At Your Fingertips

The labor market statistics compiled by government statistics agencies provides a rich and historically valuable dataset to complement other data sources. We refer to this as traditional labor market information, or LMI.

The Core LMI API is Lightcast's central tool for accessing and utilizing US government labor-market data, as well as numerous non-US datasets, including the Workforce Estimation Model. This API allows a user to access various datasets which each contain different aspects of government-sourced labor market data such as data surrounding Industries, Occupations, Demographics, Education Completions, and much more. The data is aggregated from multiple government sources so you don't have to pull separate reports—then it's cleaned, enriched, and updated on a quarterly basis to give you the most up-to-date view of the labor market.

Compensation and Salary

Market Salary API

The Market Salary API takes a different approach for evaluating and predicting salary metrics for occupations. It can make intelligent predictions in cases where government sourced data doesn't yet exist or isn’t granular enough.

The Market Salary API is a tool that can give you information about how much you should expect to pay for a specific role in a specific market, taking into account factors such as location, industry, education, and experience.

Compensation API

The Compensation API provides estimated salary ranges for a candidate or employee on the basis of many factors, including region, skills, and experience. The estimate is based on Lightcast’s collection of job postings with associated compensation and Lightcast’s comprehensive SOC-level earnings data, both nationally and regionally.

Modeled Collection

Career Pathways API

The Lightcast Career Pathways API provides a direct method of seeing career progression by exploring common career pathways for a specific occupation. This API makes use of a proprietary model that utilizes postings and profiles data to provide career trajectories.

Career Pathways is a model that provides insights into Next Step occupations, Feeder Occupations, and Skill Gaps between a current occupation and target occupation. It primarily utilizes the skill shapes of each occupation as well as the market salary to allow for career progression, also accounting for typical education, experience, and training requirements. 

Common use cases that can be filled through the Career Pathways API include:

• Building internal career ladders

• Recommending career growth opportunities for learners

• Assisting users in identifying the steps needed to move between opportunities.
  
  

DDN API


The DDN API (Defining, Distinguishing, and Necessary) provides direct access to skill value data as it relates to an occupation. This API can provide valuable insights on how certain skills can assist in career development and prospects. 

Here's how these three skill clusters are defined:

Defining Skills: Represents the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of the job. An employee needs these skills to qualify for and perform successfully in this occupation.

Distinguishing Skills: Advanced skills that are called for occasionally. An employee with these skills is likely more specialized and able to differentiate themselves from others in the same role.

Necessary Skills: Specialized skills required for that job and relevant across other similar jobs. An employee needs these skills as building blocks to perform the more complex Defining Skills.

The occupational skill categories enable you to see beyond recall rate (what skill is most requested for the occupation), and hone in on the skills that best describe the job, and what a person is doing in it.

For example, rather than just seeing that "communication" is one of the top skills requested in all job postings, DDN allows you to see see when communication is necessary but not sufficient to understand a role.

Viewing skills to this level of granularity and segmentation can be helpful in use cases such as:

• Help job seekers identify what are “must have” skills on their resumes to improve their chances of landing their dream jobs

• Improve your curriculum to keep it up to date with the most in-demand jobs and skills. 

• Build a core curriculum around Necessary Skills. 

• Build advanced tracks around Defining and Distinguishing Skills

• Make your students and workers more marketable by teaching them distinguishing skills

• Help students develop skills that improve their salary prospects by focusing on acquiring salary premium skills.
  

Projected Occupation Growth API

Lightcast Projected Occupation Growth provides an estimate of how a Lightcast Occupation is projected to grow over the next several years. This growth model incorporates information from Lightcast job postings and other historical and projection models based on BLS and OES data. This API can provide insights on a variety of factors including:

• Future Job Market Insights. Utilize the data on occupation growth to provide insights and predictions about the future job market. This can involve creating reports or articles that highlight emerging occupations and industries, projected employment trends, and the skills in demand. Such insights can be valuable for job seekers, students, career counselors, and policymakers in making informed decisions regarding education, training, and workforce planning.

• Workforce Development Initiatives. Collaborate with government agencies, educational institutions, and industry associations to design workforce development initiatives that align with the projected growth in specific occupations. These initiatives can include apprenticeship programs, vocational training, and skill-building initiatives that focus on the occupations expected to experience high demand. By equipping individuals with the right skills for future job opportunities, these initiatives can enhance workforce productivity and employability.

• Training and Education Programs. Develop targeted training and education programs based on the occupations expected to grow. These programs can help individuals acquire the skills and knowledge required for in-demand occupations. By aligning educational offerings with the projected job market, these programs can enhance workforce readiness and improve job prospects for participants.
  

Projected Skill Growth API

Projected Skill Growth API provides information on skill trends within the labor market. This API allows organizations to understand the projected growth of demand for a skill over the next two years.

To measure the evolution of skill requirements in the labor market, Lightcast has developed a robust and dynamic skills taxonomy based on its analysis of hundreds of millions of online job postings, resumes, and social profiles. Skill projections extend the above insights to the future, and are the most advanced, granular, and up-to-date set of skill projections that exist in the industry. The projections cover a two-year timeframe, providing organizations with a valuable perspective on anticipated skill demand and growth percentage range.

Similarity API


The Similarity API is designed to understand and find connections between different jobs, skills, and roles in the workforce. The user is able to input a role or skill, and the API provides similarities from role-to-skill, role-to-role, skill-to-role, or skill-to-skill. With the language of the labor market like a huge puzzle, the Similarity API is like a guide that knows how these pieces fit together. It analyzes countless job-related documents to figure out patterns and relationships to better understand what makes this job similar to that one.

Salary-Boosting Skills API

The Salary-Boosting Skills API returns information on key skills that can boost an employee's salary. The skills returned by this API are part of the Lightcast Skills Taxonomy, and are derived from a model which evaluates profiles and postings to find the skills most commonly associated with higher salaries. Key stories that can be told through this service include:

• Skill-Focused Career Guidance. Career guidance that uses the data to provide personalized recommendations to individuals seeking to increase their earning potential. Analyze a person's current skill set, compare it to the data on high-earning skills, and provide a roadmap for acquiring the most valuable skills in their field.

• Job Search Platforms. Incorporate data on high-earning skills and allow jobseekers to highlight their proficiency in specific skills and match them with job listings that offer higher salaries based on those skills. This would help individuals find opportunities that align with their skill set and financial goals.

• Skills Analytics for Employers. Provide companies and hiring managers with skill analytics and market insights based on the data. This would help them understand the value of specific skills in the job market and make informed decisions regarding employee compensation and skill development strategies.