How To Add The Linkedin Job Badge To Your Profile

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LinkedIn, the world’s best professional networking platform recently introduced a new feature that indicates if users got their jobs via LinkedIn. The new feature displays a small LinkedIn badge beside a text “helped me get the job” just under the job position.

I stumbled on this new feature whilst typing a congratulations message to a connection who recently joined Schoolable as a Communications Manager. I reached out to ask how she was able to add the badge and she told me the badge appeared after she added the position.

Personally, I feel this new feature by LinkedIn is to reinstate their mission of connecting professionals to job opportunities and offering a health space for these professionals to connect. I wanted to show the badge on my profile so bad cause I got my current job via LinkedIn as well, so I continued my research on finding the how-tos.

I looked up Reddit & did a few keyword searches on other forums (Twitter & Quora) but couldn’t find any clear instructions on how to display this badge, not even on the LinkedIn website.

So I tried troubleshooting and it worked. Read along if you’d like to display the “LinkedIn helped me get this job” badge on your profile.

Step 1: Log on to the LinkedIn website and type in your email address and password to…