Skills Taxonomy
A comprehensive classification of workforce skills and competencies.
Overview
Understanding Our Skills Taxonomy
Lightcast's skills taxonomy provides a structured framework for classifying and analyzing skills across the labor market. Our taxonomy is built from analyzing millions of job postings, resumes, and profiles to identify and categorize the skills that matter most to employers and workers.
- Comprehensive Coverage
Our taxonomy includes over 30,000 skills organized into a hierarchical structure, providing both breadth and depth in skills classification.
- Real-time Updates
Our taxonomy is continuously updated based on real-time job posting data, ensuring it captures emerging skills and evolving terminology.
- Skills Relationships
Our taxonomy maps relationships between skills, identifying complementary skills, skill clusters, and transferability between occupations.
Categories
Skill Categories
Our skills taxonomy organizes skills into four main categories, each with multiple subcategories.
Human Skills
Interpersonal abilities and traits that enable effective interaction with others
Examples:
Technical Skills
Specific abilities related to performing specialized tasks
Examples:
Domain Knowledge
Understanding of specific industries or fields
Examples:
Tools & Technologies
Proficiency with specific software, hardware, or equipment
Examples:
Applications
Skills Taxonomy Use Cases
Our skills taxonomy powers a wide range of applications across education, workforce development, and talent management.
Curriculum Development
Map educational programs to in-demand skills to ensure graduates are job-ready.
Skills-Based Hiring
Focus recruitment on the skills that matter, not just credentials or job titles.
Workforce Planning
Identify emerging skills and plan for future workforce needs.