LinkedIn Learning Career Hub Reveals Real-Time Skill Shifts and Clear Career Pathways

The biggest threat for companies today is the status quo. 

AI is reshaping work in real time, yet many organizations are still moving at yesterday’s pace. 

The top challenge is whether organizations can see skills shifting fast enough to respond. According to new LinkedIn research, 90% of chief people officers say they need real-time visibility into skills. They want to know what their teams can do today, what they’ll need tomorrow, and how to help employees move from here to there. Employees are asking for the same thing in different words: clear guidance on the best goals to set and skills to master for career momentum.

That’s why today I’m excited to share that LinkedIn Learning Career Hub is now available globally — the only career development platform powered by your talent architecture and real-time insights from the world’s most dynamic talent network.

When you connect LinkedIn’s unique skills intelligence with career pathing, something powerful happens. With visibility into how skills and careers are shifting across a billion professionals, leaders can mobilize talent faster and with confidence. Employees gain a clear view of where they can go — and how to start building toward it. Together, that combination becomes the engine of skills agility.

What customers are saying

We’ve been adding career development capabilities to LinkedIn Learning over several years, and we’ve seen inspiring results. Customers already see employees developing AI skills at a rate 3.4x faster compared to those without it. And customers who use career features see employees learning 5x faster. They’re also achieving 20% higher internal mobility and 22% longer employee tenure.

In recent months, we’ve been in the trenches with over a dozen enterprise companies around the world, working with them on how best to deliver value. Early adopters shared that they’re cutting down the time and complexity of their talent architecture work, with flexible uploads and LinkedIn-powered suggestions providing a fast starting point. They’re excited to bring clearer career paths directly to employees, supporting improved retention as employees grow with the business.

What’s new: skills intelligence to close skill gaps and fuel workforce agility

With Career Hub, we’re putting a stake in the ground as a career development platform. But it’s also worth noting that this platform is built on the foundations our customers already rely on:

Trusted expertise. High-quality courses, hands-on practice, and credentials from real experts ensure every skill is relevant and reliable.

Faster skill growth. Personalized experiences, like AI-powered coaching and role play, accelerate learning for employees, while giving leaders the data to measure impact.

Here are the new launch features built on that foundation:

• Intelligent Talent Architecture customization powered by LinkedIn insights
• AI Role Play customization and reporting for organizations
• HCM integration to seamlessly ingest your talent architecture (plus, employee profiles coming soon, starting with Workday)
• Trending Skills insights to compare your employees’ skills to peer benchmarks and highlight the fastest-growing skills in the market to power your jobs-to-skill architecture
• Enhanced reporting on career and internal mobility insights, showing employee goal breakdowns, progress towards those goals, and the roles employees are interested in moving to
• Revamped employee and admin experience, centered on career growth
• And projects and gigs coming next year

Watch a video about what to expect

What makes Career Hub different 

LinkedIn Learning Career Hub is uniquely suited for customers who are reimagining their talent strategies for an entirely new world of work. The platform offers four key areas of strength:

Unmatched skills intelligence: Career Hub draws on data and insights from LinkedIn’s Economic Graph, with deep understanding of the world’s professionals, including data from 1 billion careers, more than 500 million skills added to LinkedIn profiles each year, and 5 million profile updates per minute. This is how Career Hub keeps talent architectures current, connects evolving roles to the skills they require, and powers personalization for the employee experience.

Enterprise scale and integration: By connecting with LinkedIn Recruiter and fitting into your existing systems, Career Hub delivers value across HR, learning, and talent without disrupting workflows.

Enterprise-grade trust: Built with Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles, Career Hub gives companies confidence to adopt AI responsibly and at scale.

Meets employees where they are: Powered by LinkedIn, where employees already grow their careers and engage with learning, Career Hub uses employees’ existing skills to personalize development from the start.

Our charter customers are already finding value

Here are two stories we’ve heard from our early charter customers.

Tripadvisor: Boosting Retention Through Transparent Career Paths  

Bree Sykes is the senior learning and organizational development lead at the Tripadvisor Group, supporting multiple brands — including Tripadvisor, TheFork, and Viator — with unique needs and cultures. Her challenge is aligning these diverse teams and all their stakeholders under a single organizational development strategy and getting to the right approvals. 

“We’ve talked about building a job-to-skills map,” she says, “but it felt insurmountable.” Career Hub gave Bree and her team a head start by generating job descriptions and skill recommendations from LinkedIn data with just a simple CSV upload of role titles.

By leveraging LinkedIn’s Intelligent Talent Architecture, Tripadvisor streamlined job-to-skills mapping across more than 2,500 global employees, aligning roles and careers for diverse brands under one global strategy. 

“Career Hub allows us to bring transparent career paths directly to employees,” Bree says. “An up-to-date talent architecture means better employee career development plans — and better retention when employees are learning and growing along with the business.”

From Spreadsheets to Skills-Based Architecture: LinkedIn’s Career Hub Journey 

Julie Lyon, an HRIS leader at LinkedIn, faced fragmented talent architecture with scattered spreadsheets and inconsistent job descriptions. By combining Intelligent Talent Architecture and Career Hub, her team reduced manual administrative work, integrated with core HR systems, and aligned role data to business needs. “The integration is absolutely making it easier on our team to scale this work. Rather than navigating a ton of disparate CSV files, we can manage it all in one place — our HR system of truth,” she says.

LinkedIn is piloting Career Hub with the strategic finance, comms, and content teams, leveraging tools like CSV file uploads and Workday integration. The results? Transparent career paths, personalized development plans, and reduced administrative work. Employees across LinkedIn are actively testing Role Guides, Next Role Explorer, Career Goal Setting, and AI-powered Learning Plans — giving them clearer visibility into growth opportunities and tailored development paths. LinkedIn’s success proves Intelligent Talent Architecture and Career Hub can scale impact, streamline processes, and empower employees to drive career growth.

What’s next for Career Hub

We have loved seeing how early adopters are using Career Hub to create more agile, future-ready workforces — and how clarity around internal career paths is transforming employee development. 

This launch is an important milestone — and only the beginning. We’re building toward a future where Career Hub scales globally, integrates seamlessly into the flow of work, and empowers employees with projects and gigs. We’re just getting started.