Introducing LinkedIn Learning Career Hub to Develop and Retain Critical Talent for a Dynamic World

This moment — marked by economic uncertainty, fast-changing skills, and accelerating AI adoption — calls for a new approach to career development. 

That’s why were excited to introduce LinkedIn Learning Career Hub to help companies develop and retain critical talent for a dynamic world. It’s the only platform powered by an organization’s internal job and skill architecture, real-time insights from over 1 billion career paths, and personalized learning experiences to accelerate skill development.

Across the global economy, AI is reshaping work, and the gap between the skills employees have and the ones businesses need is widening. Nearly half (49%) of talent development practitioners say their leaders don’t believe employees are equipped to execute on strategy.

At the same time, the workforce is evolving. Today’s professionals will likely hold twice as many jobs as their counterparts just 15 years ago. They’re hungry for growth, and if they can’t find it internally, they’ll look elsewhere. 

Without intentional career development, companies risk a stagnant, disengaged workforce, a shrinking internal pipeline of future-ready talent, and the costly job of hiring new talent. Adding to the pain: too often, hiring, learning, and internal mobility remain siloed and disconnected.

That’s why career development matters now more than ever. It sits at the intersection of business need and individual ambition — where motivation meets organizational goals, and learning drives real impact. But most organizations aren’t acting on this opportunity. Two-thirds of organizations haven’t yet figured out how to deliver impactful career development as part of their talent strategies. 

How LinkedIn Learning Career Hub will reinvent career development for employees

Rolling out later this year, Career Hub has already attracted charter customers from around the world. When the product is generally available, LinkedIn Learning Hub customers will get instant access to Career Hub. 

Career Hub has all of the content and capabilities that companies and people have loved about LinkedIn Learning for the past 10 years. It’s also introducing a new, more agile and impactful approach to career development that enables both deep personalization and broad scale.  

It does this by drawing 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.

“Our employees are looking for more detail on career paths at our organization, and LinkedIn Learning Career Hub allows us to bring it to them,” says Bree Sykes, senior learning and organizational development business partner at Tripadvisor, the global travel guidance platform based in Needham, Massachusetts, that is one of the charter customers using Career Hub.

Career Hub helps talent teams in four key ways:

1. Apply real-time skills intelligence. Stay ahead of skill gaps with real-time suggestions powered by insights on how skills and careers are changing on LinkedIn.com, with data from more than 1 billion careers, keeping your talent architecture current and your workforce future-ready.

2. Build data-driven career pathways. Our all-in-one platform combines personalized learning, built-in content, and real-time skills insights to guide employees toward the skills and roles your business needs — driving deeper engagement and accelerating the right skill development.

3. Activate opportunity matching at scale. Career Hub connects employees to internal roles and projects that match their skills, increasing their visibility to recruiters internally and helping you retain and grow key talent from within.

4. Meet employees where they are. Empower your employees to build skills and grow their careers with tools they already know and trust — Linkedin.com, Learning, and Recruiter — all seamlessly connected through Career Hub.

Now let’s go deeper with a video and more details on how Career Hub can help your organization harness career development to build the skills for today and tomorrow. 

Watch a video overview on what to expect

A smarter more connected approach to career development

Here’s a more detailed look at how Career Hub can help your organization thrive:

Build and maintain your talent architecture. Career Hub mirrors your organization’s structure from day one. Whether you already have a talent architecture or are building one from scratch, simply upload roles and skills into LinkedIn Learning through bulk CSV uploads, or integrate with your HRIS provider — like Workday. Maintain your talent architecture with trending skill and talent insights powered by LinkedIn data so you know where to invest before skill gaps grow. 

Empower personalized career journeys. Once you’ve customized Career Hub to your talent architecture, the data flows into employee-facing features — integrated with information from the employee’s LinkedIn profile. With Next Role Explorer, employees can discover potential career paths and clearly see what skills they'll need to grow into these roles. Role guides provide clarity on the responsibilities and top skills needed for each position. 

AI-powered personalized learning plans put learning into action, surfacing targeted content so employees learn the right skills at the right time. Role Play with AI-Powered Coaching accelerates upskilling through customizable practice scenarios where employees build critical human skills with actionable feedback and recommendations to close skill gaps.

And all of this is supported by our robust library of trusted, globally accessible content taught by industry experts and designed for different learning styles.

Activate opportunity matching at scale. Career Hub surfaces internal job matches based on your employee’s career goals and makes it easy for them to apply for internal opportunities. It will soon include short-term projects and gigs — helping you deploy talent where your business needs it most. The opportunity matching process fuels strategic talent decisions by revealing how employees are advancing along their career paths, including which internal roles employees are viewing on LinkedIn and which roles they’re interested in moving into.

Final thought: Career development can be the engine for your talent ecosystem

A simple truth has guided the evolution of LinkedIn Learning: Career progress is people’s No. 1 motivation to build new skills. Careers inspire people to seek out new learning and dedicate their strongest energy to a cause. 

Liz Thiel, vice president culture and talent at Netsmart, shares this vision, saying, “We joined the group of charter customers for LinkedIn Learning Career Hub because of our deep commitment to our employees’ careers and our interest in helping people develop the right skills faster with scaled personalization. We see great potential in real-time skills intelligence and the ability to better connect employees to internal roles.”

Career Hub aligns individual career growth with your organization’s goals, giving you a talent ecosystem that moves as fast as your business.