Case Study: Guild builds talent pipelines with Lightcast skills data

Guild maps 2,000+ learning programs with Lightcast to boost talent mobility

Guild, a talent development company, faced the challenge of ensuring that employer investments in employee education programs would translate into tangible career mobility and strategic business gains. Their clients lacked visibility into the skills being taught, making it difficult to connect learning to organizational success. To address this, Guild partnered with vendor Lightcast and utilized their skills data and taxonomy.

The solution involved integrating the Lightcast Skills Taxonomy into Guild's Learning Marketplace and using the Lightcast Skillabi™ product to map and verify the skills taught in educational programs. This provided employers with trusted, structured data on the skills their employees were learning, enabling them to better activate new talent and facilitate internal mobility. Lightcast's tools gave both employers and employees unmatched visibility into how learning directly translates into career advancement and business impact.

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