Looking for ways to enhance your skills in a rapidly changing work environment?
This could help. LinkedIn has launched a new “LinkedIn Learning Career Hub,” which is designed to help guide professionals through industry-relevant updates and skills, in order to ensure that they’re on the right track to achieve their career goals.
As you can see in this example screen LinkedIn’s Career Hub will provide an easy way for both companies and employees to maximize their learning, based on industry trends and needs within the organization.
The new Career Hub includes three key pathways for training and development:
- Trending Skills insights will help organizations understand the skills that their employees have, so they can identify gaps, and track emerging trends across industries. “It combines internal data from employee LinkedIn profiles with external benchmarks to support smarter learning and talent decisions.”
- Internal Mobility, meanwhile, is focused on employees, and aims to help connect employees with internal career opportunities. LinkedIn will highlight the skills needed for these roles and suggests relevant courses users can take to enhance their skills.
- Which then leads to Role Guides, which will provide more in-depth information on how employees can upskill and align their capacity with relevant roles. “This feature brings together LinkedIn’s data and insights, quality content, and talent expertise to equip you with next steps to build skills for specific roles at your company.”
As you can see in this example, LinkedIn’s Career Hub will show you career opportunities and pathways within your organization, while Role Guides will give you more insight into the skills required, and how your current skills match up.
That will then point you to relevant courses, with a specific focus on AI upskilling, and ensuring that members are maximizing their understanding of how AI tools are changing their workplace.
Indeed, LinkedIn has also unlocked 34 AI courses, and 4 AI Skill Pathways, within LinkedIn Learning through to November 22nd, giving more users the opportunity to enhance their knowledge on this aspect.
It’s also published a new centralized overview of AI tools for varying purpose, based on usage among LinkedIn members.
Because as you might expect, LinkedIn has seen a massive increase in interest in AI-based skills and roles, as more and more industries look to jump aboard the AI train.
Yet, at the same time, research shows that many businesses are failing to maximize their use of AI, because their staff are not equipped to make best use of such tools, and are instead reverting to lazy use of AI as a replacement for human work.
AI is best used as a guide, and in a curated, compartmentalized way, and as such, more businesses need to train their staff on proper AI use, in order to truly build on these opportunities.
Which is why these new LinkedIn Learning elements are so important, and could power the next shift in technological usage.
You can learn more about LinkedIn’s Career Hub here.
