Market Expansion

Leveraging Lightcast APIs, you can analyze skills, roles, and career progression across markets and regions. This helps organizations understand workforce supply and demand, identify growth opportunities, and support market expansion decisions. Below are some common use cases.

Use Cases

Market Demand and Competitors

Find job postings for specific industries, identify top hiring companies, and analyze median posted wages to understand market demand and competitor activity.

APIs Used

Authentication
Job Postings – US – Our job postings data API

Python Example

Quantity of People Working in Certain Roles with Certain Skills

Classify a raw job title to the Lightcast Occupational Taxonomy (LOT), and then retrieve employee profiles that match the selected role and skill combination.

APIs Used

Authentication
Profiles – Global – Our global profiles data API
Classification – To classify the raw title to the Lightcast Occupational Taxonomy (LOT)

Python Example

Growing Markets Based on Government Population Data

Retrieve current, future, and projected population data for specific regions using government data to identify growing markets.

APIs Used

Authentication
Core LMI – Government population and labor market data

Python Example

Supply and Demand Summary

Find workforce supply and job demand for a specific role within a selected city to understand local market conditions.