Your talent strategy is missing half your workforce.
STARs Insights makes it visible.
STARs Insights, embedded in Lightcast, reveals where skills-first hiring works best, what capabilities drive success, and how workers move into higher-wage roles.
Opportunity@Work & Lightcast: A partnership built to change how talent is understood
Lightcast
is the data infrastructure behind how employers, educators, and workforce organizations understand labor markets.
Opportunity@Work
is the national leader in research on skills-first hiring.
Together,
STARs Insights are built directly into Lightcast — so organizations can act on them where decisions already happen.
Qualified talent is getting filtered out before you ever see it.
Degree requirements are acting as proxies for skills — leaving a massive pool of proven talent invisible in your systems.
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Better workforce decisions start with how talent is defined. STARs Insights brings a skills-based view into Lightcast.
Fill roles that remain open too long
Identify roles where skills-first hiring is already working, expand candidate pools beyond degree requirements, and focus on the capabilities that actually drive success.
Redesign roles around what the job actually requires
Replace outdated degree screens with skills-based criteria grounded in labor market data, creating more accurate job definitions and stronger candidate matches.
Prioritize where to find qualified talent
Understand where opportunities are available by region, and where employers are already recruiting for skills, allowing hiring and workforce investments to align with real supply.
Align programs and investments to real demand
Focus training, funding, or workforce initiatives on roles and pathways that lead to measurable outcomes.
Two organizations, one mission
Lightcast and Opportunity@Work have partnered for years to make skills-first hiring a reality. Hear Scott Gullick, VP Platform Partnerships at Opportunity@Work and Cara Christopher, CMO of Lightcast, talk about how STARs Insights works inside Lightcast — and what organizations can do right now to expand their talent pipelines.
Where the largest employers go for labor market data
Lightcast is the labor market intelligence platform behind some of the most important workforce decisions in the country — with 18 billion data points and trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 100.
