15/12/2025
The Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP) is delighted to welcome Lightcast as a Global Partner, strengthening our long-standing collaboration to support employability providers, practitioners, and organisations with world-leading labour market intelligence.
Lightcast, an international leader in labour market analytics, brings together real-time job postings, economic modelling, and detailed skills data to help organisations understand evolving workforce trends. For many years, their insights have supported strategic conversations across the UK and internationally, informing how professionals navigate changing labour markets and support people into meaningful work.
This new Global Partnership reflects a shared commitment to evidence-based employability practice, ensuring that those working in the sector have the insight and confidence to respond to rapid shifts in skills demand, emerging industries, and local labour market opportunities.
Through the partnership, Lightcast and the IEP will work together to:
- Enhance practitioner understanding of labour market trends and regional skills needs
- Support professionals in using data to guide career conversations and participant goal-setting
- Strengthen employer engagement through clear insight into industry and occupational demand
- Provide accessible intelligence that helps the workforce navigate a dynamic and fast-changing labour market
This collaboration builds on many years of partnership in which Lightcast’s labour market intelligence has helped shape professional development, informed sector-wide dialogue, and supported the IEP’s mission to elevate standards across the employability profession.
Andy Durman FIEP, EVP, Global Business Unit, Lightcast said:
“Lightcast is proud to deepen our relationship with the IEP at a time when high-quality labour market insight has never been more essential. Across the world, organisations are navigating rapid economic shifts, new skills needs, and significant transformation in the world of work. Our mission is to provide the data that empowers employability professionals to respond with clarity, confidence, and impact. Partnering with the IEP allows us to support practitioners directly, ensuring they have trusted intelligence that strengthens the support they deliver every day.”
Scott Parkin FIEP, Group CEO of the IEP, said:
“Lightcast brings unparalleled expertise in labour market intelligence, and their insight has been instrumental in shaping how our sector understands work, skills, and opportunity. For employability professionals, having access to accurate, actionable data is vital to supporting people effectively into sustainable employment. We are thrilled to welcome Lightcast as a Global Partner and look forward to working together to embed strong evidence and insight across the profession.”
This partnership underscores the IEP’s commitment to supporting the sector with robust insight, practical tools, and data-led professional development, ensuring that those delivering employability services can navigate a constantly changing labour market and help more people progress into good work.