Lightcast Open Skills Taxonomy

Ready to level up your learning outcomes? Break them down into individual skills that can be mapped to currently in demand occupations.

The Lightcast Skills Taxonomy is a comprehensive, data-driven classification system that organizes thousands of job-related skills based on real-world labor market data. It helps translate between the language of education (courses, programs, learning outcomes) and the language of work (skills, job postings, and career pathways).

Scroll down the page to find some free tools:

  • Skills Library: search over 33,000 skills aligned to occupations
  • Skills Categories: Browse and drill-down through categories to find skills you might be missing in your course
  • Skills Extractor: Paste in your syllabus or any other text to find the matching skills

Visit the Lightcase Open Skills Taxonomy.