LinkedIn Learning: Role Guides

LinkedIn Learning Role Guides are curated, role-based learning libraries within the LinkedIn Learning Career Hub designed to help employees explore, prepare for, and master specific job roles. They aggregate relevant courses, learning paths, and skills data to provide a "one-stop shop" for career development.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff

Responsible Group: IT Training and Outreach

Overview

Role Guides are one page overviews that bring together key skills, courses, and resources to help students, staff, recruiters, and managers explore career paths, understand role requirements, and identify learning to support professional growth. They provide a clear, data driven view of in-demand skills and learning opportunities for specific roles that are based on LinkedIn Learning’s Economic Graph. There are 39 roles created by LinkedIn to explore across three categories: business, technology, and creative.

Key Features

Role Guides are curated collections within LinkedIn Learning’s Career Hub that include:

• A role summary
• Top skills to develop
• Understand the basics for this role with short videos
• Build skills for this role
• Create a learning plan
• Where you could go next if you were in this role

Access

The recommended way to access Role Guides is through a web browser. Role Guides can also be accessed on mobile application with limitations.

Desktop App

1. Visit myapps.microsoft.com.
2. Sign in using your @uark.edu credentials.
3. Select the LinkedIn logo.
4. You will be redirected to learning.linkedin.com. If not automatically signed in, log in again using your @uark.edu account.
5. Select the Menu Icon in the left navigation.
6. Select Career Paths
7. Scroll past the Role Explorer to view available Role Guides.

Mobile App

Download LinkedIn Learning from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Log in with your UARK credentials.

Select “Topics” > Under “Role Guides”, select “Show All” > Choose which Role Guide you want to explore.

Training

• Learning FAQ: Explore Role Guides in Learning (LinkedIn Learning)
• Explore content for Next Role Explorer and Role Guides (LinkedIn Learning Video)

Need Help?

• Submit a UARK IT Help ticket for access issues.
• Submit an IT training request for personalized support from the IT Training and Outreach.

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