Lightcast released a new report to help our clients understand career pathways. See feeder and next-step jobs, salary differences between job transitions, and the necessary skills needed to move from one job to the next.
New
Added Employers Competing Metric to Job Postings Analytics
The Job Posting Competition/Analytics summary packet at the top of the report now includes the total number of employers that are advertising for the specific role defined in the search parameters and are therefore competing for the same talent. This is contrasted to the total number of employers that are hiring generally within the region. Now instead of forcing users to go to Job Postings Table or Occupation Snapshot/Overview to find the competition data point, it’s right at the top of the report, ready for users to analyze and benchmark against.
More Granularity in Job Posting Report Timeframes
Available now in all of our job posting reports, you can run reports for much more specific date ranges! This will allow you to see how job postings and trends in job posting data are changing much more in real-time.
GOT is now Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy (LOT)
We officially changed the name of our Global Occupation Taxonomy (GOT) to Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy (LOT).
LOT is a proprietary taxonomy composed of 4 different levels (Career Area, Occupation Group, Occupation, Specialized Occupation). This taxonomy has a 1-1 relationship between levels, allows users to start broadly and then get to a level far more granular than O*NET and SOC, and is also updated at least annually. The frequency with which this taxonomy is updated makes it especially useful for identifying emerging roles and occupations.
Addition of Skill Categories and Subcategories to Analyst!
We have added skill categories and subcategories to Analyst.
Now instead of having to search through individual skills you can just pick a broad category like “Science and Research” and search all skills associated or use a subcategory and get more detailed and search all skills associated with “Data Analysis.”
Skill categories and subcategories are available in the initial menu of our job postings reports and can be visualized in our Report Builder. We will be adding the ability to browse and search the skill categories and subcategories as well as improvements to how they are visualized and displayed in our reports.
New Company Groups
Now you can create groups of company names to search for across different reports.
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Program Filtering and Visualization Additions
- Addition of Institution filter in the Program Overview and Program Table
- Use this to compare/contrast against one or several institutions
- Useful to understand all institution offerings in a certain drive or geographic radius
- Addition of ‘spark’ chart showing 5 year completions trends in Completions by Institution Table
- Addition of Market Share Visualizations
- Use these to understand the breakdown of different CIP levels and institution type market share
Addition of “Software” Skills
We have added “software” as a new category of skill in our Skill Taxonomy. This will allow you to quickly and easily see what are the most requested software skills associated with a search to help you understand what is in demand or where there are potential skill gaps.
