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Overview
LinkedIn Learning My Career tools support professional development and long-term career planning by helping you explore career options and manage your Individual Development Plan (IDP). One of the primary tools, Career Paths, uses data from the LinkedIn Economic Graph to provide a personalized snapshot of potential career trajectories based on the Learner's current Role.
The LinkedIn Economic Graph is built from real-time, aggregated data on job postings, professional profiles, and resumes across the LinkedIn platform. By leveraging this data, Career Paths helps you understand how people with similar Role progress in their careers and identify opportunities to grow, pivot, or advance.
Key Features
- Personalized career insights: Career Paths adapts to your current role to show realistic next-step career options.
- Data-informed guidance: Recommendations are based on real-world career movement captured in the LinkedIn Economic Graph.
- IDP alignment: Career Paths can inform goal-setting and learning choices within your Individual Development Plan.
- Flexible exploration: View advancement, lateral, or career-change pathways without committing to a single direction.
Tip: Career Paths are meant to support exploration and planning. They are not prescriptive or evaluative and should be used as a conversation starter for growth, not a prediction.
Access
You can access LinkedIn Learning from a web browser or mobile device. Be sure to log in using your UARK email address.
How to configure Career Paths
To receive accurate Career Path recommendations, your Role must be correctly set in LinkedIn Learning in the My Career Plan section.
- Within LinkedIn Learning, select the Menu button.
- Select My Career Plan.
- Select the ? icon next to Role to open the Edit experience window.
- In the Job title field, enter the job title that best matches your current role.
Note: Your exact university job title may not appear. If so, select the closest comparable role. For example, a university title such as Technology Professional Development and Learning Coordinator may align with Learning and Development Coordinator.
- Select Continue.
Optional: You may connect your personal LinkedIn profile to the university’s LinkedIn Learning platform by selecting Connect LinkedIn Account and following the prompts. This step is optional and not required to use Career Paths.
After updating your role, return to Career Paths. You may need to refresh the page for changes to appear.
How to Read Career Path Results
The Career Path visualization displays different roles that people commonly move into from the Learner's current Role. These insights are based on aggregated LinkedIn Economic Graph data and may reflect trends specific to the industry.
- Most Common: Roles that the majority of people transition into from Role.
- Similar: Roles that are closely related and often considered lateral moves.
- Pivot: Roles that represent a career change into a different field or function.
Select any of the Roles (in the screenshot below identified as A) to view percentages of people who move into those positions at the University of Arkansas (B) Skills to develop (C), create a Learning Plan (D), or view Role Guide (E).
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