Gazelle: Use-Cases, Insights and Reviews | 2025 Cuspera

Employ Prince George's, Inc. wanted to help local residents and businesses in Prince George's County, Maryland. They needed a way to show stakeholders the real needs of the community and get funding.... They used Lightcast’s Developer platform to access labor market data and better communicate with government and business leaders. This helped them secure $6 million in funding for local businesses. They also doubled the number of citizens served and assisted 6,000 local businesses since their founding.
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Boston University wanted to help PhD students talk about the skills they learn. They created the PhD Progression program with digital badges. Students can earn over 160 badges online, each taking 45 ...to 90 minutes. The badges use Lightcast's skills taxonomy and SkillsMatch to connect learning to real jobs. Over 600 students joined, and 1,600 badges have been awarded. This helps students explain their skills to employers.
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Simply Get Results needed global labor market data to help businesses define their skills strategy. They chose to partner with Lightcast instead of building their own data solution. By embedding Ligh...tcast data into their platform, they could map skills, identify gaps, and benchmark against competitors. This partnership helped Simply Get Results bring their product to market faster. The reliable data from Lightcast allowed them to innovate and expand their services for customers.
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Princeton University Graduate School wanted to help students see more career options beyond academia. They used Lightcast data to show students how their PhD education connects to many jobs. The Grad...FUTURES program used labor market data to guide students and shape core skills for all programs. This helped students and faculty understand more career paths. The data made it easier to talk about jobs outside of teaching and research.
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Guild wanted to help companies make employee education more useful for both workers and businesses. Many companies struggled to see real results from their learning programs because they could not tr...ack what skills employees gained. Guild used Lightcast’s Skills Taxonomy and Skillabi tools to match learning programs with business needs. This helped companies see what skills their workers learned and made it easier to build talent pipelines. The partnership made employee learning more connected to real job needs.
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Pernod Ricard wanted to understand the skills of their 19,550 employees across many countries. They needed a new way to organize and track these skills for better planning. They used Lightcast data a...nd Talent Transform™ to build a new skills architecture and connect it with Workday. Lightcast helped them map and update their skills, and made sure the system worked with their HR tools. Now, Pernod Ricard uses a custom dashboard to track skill usage and stay ready for new trends.
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