LinkedIn, established in 2003, aims to improve productivity and spur success by connecting professionals globally. The network comprises over 850 million members, including specialized executives from across diverse industries. LinkedIn's operations span multiple product lines such as Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions, and Premium Subscriptions. With the main office in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has a worldwide presence with several global offices.
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Massive range of courses covering a variety of topics - business, technology and creative skills. You can have certificates added to your profile and also do lots of bite-sized training which you can pause and restart when convenient.
What I like most about the product is the customization features. There is the ability to create learning paths for the organization and create custom learning paths as a user based on career interests. I like the integration with the companies HR systems as well. Employees can easily see job postings they might be interested in and plan to learn the skills necessary for the role. Finally, I love the reporting features. These help us identify where employees are leaning in the most and support discovery and scoping for employee development initiatives built in house.
What I liked most is the flexibility to learn at my own pace, and the highly practical approach to learning, it's not just theory presented in a boring way but truly applicable with real life examples and teachers that embody what they are teaching through their own lived experiences.
The cost is fine for me but I think it could be off-putting. It's a shame that on all the courses I've done, there has been no way of interacting with the instructor or other participants; not sure if this is the case with all courses but I've done quite a few and never had this so far! The other downside is that the depth of the courses can vary greatly. Some just skim the surface, which for me is a waste of time, although others are deeper but it's hard to know what you're going to get.
One of the main issues with the platform is the sheer volume of resources. There are a lot of courses and many of them are outdated. For example, courses created pre-covid that do not account for remote/hybrid working environments or trainings that reference social distancing and masking when these practices are not widely deployed. Another challenge is difficulty finding relevant information. Key word searches bring up many relevant topics and sometimes completely irrelevant topics that increase the time spent searching and take away from the time spent learning. Finally, the product is costly with low utilization.
Some courses are too surface-level, especially with topics that are around deep technical expertise. I would say that LinkedIn Learning is meant more as a supplement to other technical learning platforms, or for personal growth goals.