Build a future-ready workforce strategy with expert guidance in your corner.

Enhance your talent strategy with consulting tailored to your needs.
Our team of economists, data scientists, and subject matter experts combine deep workforce knowledge with world-class labor data to answer the hardest questions about your business. We illuminate the best path through labor market complexities, helping you build a future-ready workforce equipped to thrive in an age of disruption.
Our Services
Powerful insights and reports
Custom insights to guide skills-based strategic workforce planning, optimize all stages of your talent supply chain, and help you move forward with clarity.
Custom workforce datasets
Custom workforce datasets help you make informed decisions on site selection, recruiting, talent acquisition, compensation, DE&I initiatives, talent strategy, skill mapping, reskilling and professional development, role architecture, and more.
Emerging trend analysis
Custom methodologies and analytics to quantify emerging fields, build custom market and job rankings, and identify evolving trends years before they surface in other data sets.
Our Solutions
Lightcast offers a truly customized, consultative approach to answering our client’s critical business questions. Whether it is a single, unique request or an ongoing need for data and insights, here are just a few of the ways that we can support you:

Prescriptive Consulting Services
Solve your most pressing talent challenges with in-depth consulting and custom research to answer key questions related to strategic workforce planning and other critical talent issues.

Programmatic Consulting Services
Data at scale for analysis, modeling, and product design through custom software exports, datasets, reports, and more to build your specific workforce strategies.

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Access custom dashboard visualizations built for your teams, website, or special project
Save time. Save money. Drive real impact.
Her are some examples:
A large manufacturing company
was able to respond to digital transformation efforts by identifying and developing internal reskilling and advancement pathways, reducing their talent acquisition costs by up to $1.5 million.
A multinational retailer
quickly built an adaptable skill architecture and inventory for thousands of roles within 10 weeks, compared to the over six month timeline they anticipated with a traditional assessment or survey-based approach.
A large software company
created a targeted recruitment strategy using normalized job titles to provide accurate diversity and inclusion benchmarks for their skilled and college graduate workforce.
Custom consulting offerings tailored to your needs:
Skills-First Hiring
- Skills transformation and roadmapping
- Job and skill architecture
- Future-ready skills identification
- Skills gap analysis
- Skill proficiency levels
Competitive Benchmarking
- Compensation benchmarking
- Competitor talent intelligence
- Industry benchmarking
Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Build, Buy, Borrow optimization
- Job description optimization
- Sourcing strategy
- Talent pipeline strategy
Geolocation Strategy
- Site selection
- Global and regional sourcing strategy
- Remote worker strategy
Talent Development
- Career pathways & internal mobility
- Reskilling and upskilling strategy
- Turnover and retention analysis
- Internal career exploration portals
Lightcast Advisory
On-demand advisory support: Custom: * Data pulls * Expert briefings * Short-form reports * Dashboards

How it works:
1. Tell us the workforce problem you are trying to solve.
2. Our workforce consultants analyze billions of data points and evaluate a custom solution.
3. We deliver comprehensive insights, data, and recommendations to help you navigate the changing world of work.
4. Translate the results to your business leaders, with our guidance.
What are the problems you're ready to solve? Let's work together.
Connect with a Lightcast Talent Workforce Consulting team member and utilize data to build a personalized talent strategy.