US JPA - Removing Skill Cluster Fields

We are targeting June 19, 2025, for removing the skill cluster fields in the US Job Postings API. These fields include: - msaskillcluster - nationalskillclus...

LOT v7 becomes the default in Career Coach APIs

On July 10, 2025, the Careers, Jobs, and Assessments APIs are changing from LOT v6 to LOT v7 by default, and v6 will no longer be available. For more informa...

Data Shares - Global Postings - Removing all LAA Incoming and Outgoing fields

We are targeting July 3, 2025, to remove all LAA Incoming and Outgoing fields from Global Postings in Data Shares. This is because the evergreen LAA fields n...

Data Shares - US Postings and Profiles - Removing all area Incoming and Outgoing fields

We are targeting July 3, 2025, for removing all area Incoming and Outgoing fields from US Postings and Profiles. This is because the evergreen area fields ar...

Lightcast Postings and Profiles Data Update - Improvements to Lightcast Job Titles

Lightcast is improving its title normalization process on postings and profile data. More information can be found here. https://kb.lightcast.io/en/articles/...

Career Coach API Breaking Changes: Updated Categories and Pathways

Lightcast is releasing the US 2025.3 datarun on August 11th. To consume the updated data when it becomes available, no action will need to be taken. However,...

Data Shares - Core LMI US - Removing dataset DAT_MEDIAN_HOUSEHOLD_INCOME in favor of field MEDIAN_HOUSEHOLD_INCOME in dataset DAT_ACS_INDICATORS

We are targeting August 1, 2025, for removing from Data Shares the dataset DAT_MEDIAN_HOUSEHOLD_INCOME in favor of field MEDIAN_HOUSEHOLD_INCOME in dataset D...

Data Shares - Global Postings - Removing legacy occupation fields in favor of LOT fields

We are targeting August 1, 2025, for removing the legacy fields OCCUPATION and OCCUPATION_NAME from Global Postings in Data Shares. These fields have been su...

Job Postings API - Global - Removing legacy occupation filters in favor of LOT filters

We are targeting August 1, 2025, for removing the legacy filters "occupation" and "occupation_name" from the Global Job Postings API. These filters have been...

Profile APIs - Upcoming Changes to years_of_experience Field

On October 24, 2025 Lightcast will be removing the field yearsofexperience from all Profile APIs. If you are looking to understand the years of work history ...

Data Shares - All Geos - Postings & Profiles - Replacing LAST_UPDATED_DATE (Postings) and meta "updated_date" (Postings, Profiles) in favor of timestamp equivalents

We are targeting August 29, 2025, for removing the below elements displaying a date in favor of elements displaying a timestamp to take advantage of the adde...

Data Shares - ANZ, SG Postings - Removing MIN_EDULEVELS, MIN_EDULEVELS_NAME, MAX_EDULEVELS, MAX_EDULEVELS_NAME, REQUIRED_EDULEVELS_NAME, and PREFERRED_EDULEVELS_NAME due to addition of ISCED

UPDATED We are targeting September 26 for removing MINEDULEVELS, MINEDULEVELSNAME, MAXEDULEVELS, MAXEDULEVELSNAME, REQUIREDEDULEVELSNAME and PREFERREDEDULEVE...

Data Shares - ANZ - Postings - Removing versioned ANZSCO 2021 fields

We are targeting September 26, 2025, for removing the versioned ANZSCO 2021 fields from Singapore Postings. ANZSCO20211 ANZSCO20211_NAME ANZSCO20212 ANZSCO20...

Data Shares - SG - Postings - Removing versioned SSOC 2020 fields

We are targeting September 26, 2025, for removing the versioned SSOC 2020 fields from Singapore Postings. SSOC20201 SSOC20201_NAME SSOC20202 SSOC20202_NAME S...