From Analytics to Action: Leveraging Labor Market Intelligence for Workforce Resilience

How Lightcast’s Beacon platform supports scenario planning and talent strategy
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Track
Impact

Workforce leaders face pressures from talent shortages, AI disruption, and global uncertainty. This session shows how Lightcast’s Beacon platform connects labor market intelligence with internal workforce data to support real-time, scenario-based planning. You will also see how the addition of Rhetorik profile data improves visibility into who is driving workforce trends, enabling more precise benchmarking, targeting, and talent strategy across acquisition, mobility, and pay.

This session will explore
  • Combining external labor market signals with internal workforce data.
  • Using Beacon for scenario-based planning and decision support.
  • Benchmarking talent, compensation, and diversity against peers.
  • Adding Rhetorik profile data to reveal who drives workforce trends.
Learning objectives
  • See how external data can strengthen workforce strategy and planning.
  • Understand practical uses of benchmarking to guide talent decisions.
  • Learn how profile data sharpens targeting and competitor analysis.
  • Discover ways to use dynamic data across HR and business teams.

Cole Napper

VP of Research · Lightcast

Why this is on the agenda

Persistent labor shortages, AI-driven disruption, and shifting markets demand new ways of planning. Organizations need more than dashboards – they need actionable intelligence to anticipate change, benchmark against peers, and build resilience in workforce strategy.