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Lightcast Addresses Higher Education's Relevance Crisis with Real-Time Skills Alignment Technology
Lightcast , the global leader in labour market data, analytics, and expert guidance, today announced a series of new educational programme diagnostic tools built into its portfolio intelligence application, Skillabi . Designed for higher education and corporate learning and development (L&D), Skillabi analyzes programme content—course descriptions, learning outcomes, and training materials—and, using sophisticated algorithms, maps it against the largest corpus of high-fidelity labour market data. The algorithms identify gaps and trends, and give portfolio and product development planners actionable intelligence to build or modify programmes to meet evolving workforce demands.
'Our mission with Skillabi is to minimise the distance to the labour market for education and L&D organisations,' said Kevin Gounden , Chief Product Officer at Lightcast. 'Higher education is at a crossroads and programme relevance is the new currency. Our latest innovation is poised to change how courses are designed and maintained because institutional leaders now have a data-driven pulse on the skill demands. They can spot trends and skill gaps early and shape a portfolio that drives employability and enrollment.'
Skillabi leverages Lightcast's compounded insights, encompassing more than 18 billion labour market data points, including job postings, career profiles, along with company and compensation data. It also draws on two decades of skill and occupation taxonomy expertise, data classification, and sophisticated machine learning models to create structure from traditionally fragmented labour market data.
'Skillabi is already proving to be a valuable tool for St. Kate's, particularly within our School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences and our School of Business, where we've begun using it more readily for curriculum design,' said Erin White , Director of Institutional Research at St. Catherine University . 'Though we're early in fully leveraging Skillabi, its insights into labour market needs are already helping us shape more relevant programmes, positively impacting enrollment. It's a promising asset that helps us make informed decisions and better prepare our students for success.'
Skillabi's features include:
Lightcast's data depth and transparency—used by over 1,000 educational institutions, the majority of Fortune 100 companies, state and local government agencies, and global edtech partners—underpins the impact Lightcast's skill diagnostic and alignment software and services can have on learning content, whether part of an L&D program or a broader higher education programme portfolio.
'Our partnership with Lightcast has created a powerful connection between education and skilling and the real-world demands of the workforce,' said
Rohan Chandran , Chief Product and Technology Officer at
Guild , the leading talent development company. 'By integrating Skillabi and leveraging Lightcast's Skills Taxonomy into our Learning Marketplace, we ensure that the skills employees gain through Guild programs are practical, clearly defined and understood, and immediately applicable on the job.'
Skillabi is available now in the US, Canada , and the UK. Request a demo or a trial .
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