Adding a LinkedIn experience is an important step in keeping your account fresh and gaining new connections. When someone visits your profile, the professional trajectory field is one of the first pieces of information displayed and works as a good business card.
The experience section of LinkedIn brings together all the positions that the person has held in their professional career, in a format similar to that of a resume. It is possible to inform company name, function, description, working time and skills used — this information can also be redirected to the “Skills” section of the profile.
What is the difference between experiences and skills?
The terms have different meanings on LinkedIn. The “Experiences” field is used to explain everything you’ve done in your career, with details of your career path and positions. The “Skills” section, on the other hand, serves to gather your professional skills, such as mastery of a tool or a technique used at work.
What to put in the experiences section?
It is worth entering as much information as possible, even when you are still at the beginning of your professional career. LinkedIn’s field accepts volunteer work, internship contracts, chartered jobs, board memberships, and so on.
Take the opportunity to enter many details about what you have accomplished in other jobs and the results achieved in each position in the “Description” field, with information that is not usually available in the resume. In addition, it is recommended to insert skills and media files produced in the work.
How to add professional experience on LinkedIn
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- Open the LinkedIn profile;
- Select the “Add profile section” button;
- Click on “Add position”;
- Start filling the form with all the professional information;
- Press “Save”.
Among the optional features, you can activate the “Notify the network” button to create a post about the new position, add skills that were relevant to the position and insert media files about portfolio and works produced in that period.
There is also an alternative way to enter the roles, found in the experiences section itself:
- Open the profile;
- Scroll down to the “Experiences” field;
- Click on the “+” icon;
- Select “Add position”;
- Fill the form.
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- Open the profile;
- Tap “Add section”;
- Enter the information and press “Save”.
How to edit or remove an experience
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- In the profile, scroll down to the “Experiences” field;
- Select the pencil icon;
- Click on the icon next to one of the positions;
- Change the information;
- To remove, click on “Delete experience”.
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- Access the “Experiences” field;
- Tap the pencil icon;
- Select the icon next to one of the positions;
- Change the information or tap “Delete Experience”.
These changes are only valid for the primary language profile. If you have a secondary profile in another language, you will need to manually add experiences.
