LinkedIn Recommendations

As I prepare for another Creating a LinkedIn Profile program, I noticed that I didn’t include a section on recommendations.  That’s an important piece to LinkedIn. It’s especially helpful for potential employers to read what your past manager co-workers, directors and other folks that you may have worked with think of your work. Here is how you do it:

1. Move your cursor over your photo in the top right of your homepage and select Privacy and Settings. You may be prompted to sign in to your account.

2. Click the Manage your Recommendations link under Settings

3. Click Ask to be recommended  after each job listing

4. In the "Who do you want to ask?" section, enter name(s) of your connections into the text field or click the LinkedIn icon to search a listing of all of your connections.  

5. Use the template LinkedIn provides to ask for a recommendation or better yet, create your own letter asking for recommendation.

6. Hit Send

To make a recommendation for someone else, go to the same Privacy and Settings area and follow the same steps for Manage your Recommendations. Click Make a Recommendation towards the bottom of the page and follow these steps:

1. Select a name of the person you’d like to recommend from your LinkedIn connections

2. Follow the prompts asking how and where you know this person and then write out your recommendation. 

3. Click submit.

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