SkillsDBvsLightcast
Lightcast maps the external labor market. SkillsDB maps your internal workforce — what skills your people actually have today, and how to develop them.
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About Lightcast
Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass) is the global standard in labor market intelligence. Their platform aggregates data from 2.5 billion job postings, 800 million career profiles, and 100+ government sources across 160+ countries. Lightcast provides skills taxonomies, labor market analytics, compensation benchmarking, talent supply/demand analysis, and workforce planning data. They serve enterprises, staffing firms, education institutions, and economic development organizations.
But labor market intelligence tells you what the market demands — not what your people can actually do. SkillsDB provides the internal counterpart: assessed proficiency across your workforce, so your planning is grounded in both external demand and internal reality.
Why Teams Choose SkillsDB
Internal Reality, Not Just External Trends
Lightcast tells you what the labor market demands. SkillsDB tells you what your workforce can actually deliver — assessed proficiency, verified gaps, real development progress. You need both to plan, but you can’t develop what you haven’t measured.
Develop, Not Just Analyze
Market data informs strategy. But strategy without execution is a slide deck. SkillsDB gives you the tools to actually close gaps — assessments, learning plans, career pathways, certification tracking, and measurable proficiency growth.
Every Employee, Assessed
Lightcast works with aggregated market data. SkillsDB works with individual employee proficiency — manager grades, self-assessments, benchmarks, and development plans. The internal ground truth that makes workforce planning actionable.
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