From cook to C.E.O., LinkedIn looks to plot the career path you’ll need to travel to hit the bright lights.

If you aim to be a chief financial officer of a 5,000-person company, the data show you need to get an M.B.A. within nine years of starting work.

Graduate from college with a physics degree and there is a 22% chance you’ll be a software engineer in two years.

Join the military and your chances of being homeless someday go way up, since you lose your support network when you leave the service.

LinkedIn’s Deep Nishar, vice president of products and user experience, spends his days building algorithms that show the career steps to a chief exec spot.

Learn more about him and his work at Forbes.

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