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# Aspirations overview

# Aspirations overview {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Zurich
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* Updated July 31, 2025
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Create and set your aspirations to help inspire and guide you on your career growth and development journey.  
Create and track personal and professional aspirations.

Aspiration Types
:   A general category used to help focus your aspiration.

Interest
:   Interest gives you an opportunity to contribute to a given area of interest. You can set an
    aspiration for any topics you want to explore.

Skill
:   Skill gives you the opportunity to become a specialist in something you're already good at, or to tackle something new.

Role
:   Role gives you the opportunity to earn a new title in your current trajectory, or to try
    something in a different field.

General
:   If your aspiration falls outside the interest, skill and role categories, general gives you
    the opportunity to make something from scratch.