[BittFaulk]

Actually OED says that there is a verb form of "path" that's appropriate here, though it's obsolete:

"3. intr. To go in or as in a path; to pursue one's course. Also refl. in same sense. "

More likely, this colloquialism was just invented by HR types who wanted to put a buzz-word around one's search for a better job.

[/BittFaulk]