The era of static skills libraries and quarterly skill audits is over. As organizations race to build skills-based workforces, the speed of skill change is accelerating, too—over the past three years, the average job has seen 32% of its skills turn over, almost as much as they had in the previous five years.
An era of constant change means that information needs to be continuously updated to remain relevant. But according to Deloitte, only 17% of organizations can currently update skills data in real time, while most rely on outdated spreadsheets, expensive consulting projects, and manual mapping processes that quickly become obsolete.
That’s why Lightcast has released Talent Transform with Skills Agent—a breakthrough that turns workforce planning from reactive guesswork into proactive, data-driven strategy.
From Static to Strategic: Transforming Skills Intelligence
Talent Transform is designed to integrate with major Human Capital Management (HCM) systems, including Oracle, SAP, and Workday, to bring structure, governance, and intelligence to enterprise job and skills data. It normalizes messy job architectures and generates clean skill profiles, so HR leaders can standardize their workforce with external intelligence and gain visibility into market demand, emerging skills, and peer benchmarks.
While Talent Transform has long provided invaluable workforce intelligence and helped enterprises streamline their workforce strategy, now it has evolved. Skills Agent, a new capability within Talent Transform, regularly provides refreshed data, in tune with the latest market developments, so that skills profiles are never out of date. Skills Agent proactively detects changes in labor market demand, emerging skill requirements, and evolving role definitions, then automatically updates your enterprise's skills data accordingly. This isn't just faster—it's fundamentally smarter.
The foundation of these insights is proprietary labor market intelligence from Lightcast. Drawing from over 73,000 occupations and 34,000 validated skills, Skills Agent analyzes real-time job postings, resume data, and hiring trends to understand how roles are evolving and which skills are emerging across industries.
This market-driven approach delivers three critical capabilities that static libraries simply cannot provide:
Predictive Skills Identification: Skills Agent doesn't just tell you what skills exist today—it identifies emerging skills before they become widespread market requirements, giving your organization a competitive advantage in talent development and acquisition.
Continuous Benchmarking: Every skill recommendation comes with transparent labor market rationale, allowing you to benchmark your internal roles against external market demands, competitor requirements, and industry standards.
Automated Maintenance: Monthly updates ensure your skills profiles stay current without requiring additional legwork, eliminating the cycle of build-deploy-obsolescence that plagues traditional approaches.
Full Transparency: Nobody knows your organization better than you do, so users have the ability to modify Skills Agent recommendations according to your own business needs. You can also import Job Profiles from your HCM to generate Roles in Talent Transform so that the tool is customized to make the greatest impact in your organization.
Strategic Integration for Maximum Impact
The true power of Talent Transform with Skills Agent lies in its seamless integration with your existing HR technology stack. Whether you're using Workday Skills Cloud, SAP's Talent Intelligence Hub, or Oracle's Dynamic Skills, Skills Agent delivers governed skills data directly into your HCM platform, creating a unified ecosystem for skills-based decision making.
This integration capability transforms Skills Agent from a standalone tool into a strategic enabler across your entire talent lifecycle:
Workforce Planning: Make strategic headcount and capability decisions based on real-time skills gap analysis and market demand forecasting
Internal Mobility: Enable transparent career pathing with clear, consistent skill requirements that reflect both current and future role needs
Learning & Development: Align training investments with emerging skills demand, ensuring your L&D programs drive measurable business outcomes
Talent Acquisition: Recruit for the skills that matter most in today's market, not yesterday's job descriptions
A Skills-Based Future
The shift to skills-based workforce management isn't just a trend—it's a fundamental transformation in how organizations think about talent. But success requires more than good intentions. It requires infrastructure, intelligence, and integration capabilities that can scale with your business needs.
Talent Transform with Skills Agent provides all three. It creates the standardized foundation your skills initiatives need to succeed, delivers the real-time intelligence required to stay ahead of market changes, and integrates seamlessly with your existing technology investments to maximize value across your entire HR ecosystem.
Ready to transform your workforce strategy with real-time skills intelligence? Contact our team to learn how Talent Transform with Skills Agent can help your organization build the skills-based future your business demands. Get in touch today to discover how automated skills intelligence can drive strategic advantage for your organization.
