Starting today, we bring you the ability to reorder the sections on your LinkedIn profile via drag-and-drop. This enhancement, one of the most highly-requested profile features from our users, gives you the ability to highlight the skills, expertise, and/or experiences that make you stand out.
Your profile is an important part of your online professional identity. At LinkedIn we'd like to provide you with all the tools you need to build and maintain a profile that can showcase your unique professional value. Now you're in complete control over your professional brand. Given below is a quick demo of how it works:
Want to showcase your work experience or education above everything else? Do you want testimonials from your references to be the first thing people see when they find your profile? Have you synced your WordPress blog with your profile or built a great presentation with SlideShare that you want to feature? Now your LinkedIn profile offers the flexibility you need to put your best foot forward.
Customizing your profile's section ordering is quick and easy. You will notice that the headers of each of the sections on your "Edit Profile" page now have handles that can be dragged. To reorder a section, all you need to do is click and drag one of these section headers up or down the body of your profile. When you release the mouse, the section will drop into place where you dragged it, and your adjustment will take effect immediately.
The ability to reorder the sections on your profile is just the first of a huge number of enhancements that are coming to your LinkedIn profile in the upcoming months. And, as always, we'd love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions about how LinkedIn can help you to represent, manage, and share your professional identity.
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Have you ever wanted to reorder your educational background to exhibit the university you went to first at the top instead of it being rendered to the bottom of the section? Say Hallelujah!
As shown below, when you're in profile edit mode, simply hover your cursor to the far left of the section [by the way this works with your Experience, Publications, Volunteer and Causes, Organizations section as well when you have more than one item]. You will now see a vertical gray bar. Grab it and watch what happens. You'll see the words "Drag to reorder educations". You may now reorder your education to however you wish it to be seen. This works in a similar fashion to the up/down arrow to move whole sections. Drag and drop. That's it.
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The Featured section allows you to showcase samples of your work to people who view your LinkedIn profile. This is a great way to provide evidence of your skills and experience.
You can feature your best work samples, such as:
- LinkedIn posts that you’ve created or re-shared.
- Articles that you’ve authored and published on LinkedIn.
- Links to external websites, for example your personal blog or portfolio.
- Media that you can upload, for example your images, documents, presentations, and videos.
To protect the privacy of other LinkedIn members, you can’t feature posts from LinkedIn Events that you’re attending, or Groups that you’re a part of.
Note: You must have already authored and published a post or article on the LinkedIn platform to be able to add it to your Featured section.
If you've never added a work sample, you'll first want to add work samples to the Featured section.
To add a Featured section or add work samples on your profile:
- Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage, then View Profile.
- Click the Add profile section button in your introduction section.
- Click Recommended dropdown, and click Add Featured from the dropdown.
- Click the Add icon on the upper right of the Featured page.
- Select the type of work sample you’d like to Feature and follow prompts.
- Click Save or Done.
Repeat the above steps to add more Accomplishments to your profile.
To edit, remove, reorder or delete work samples that you’ve showcased in the Featured section on your profile:
How do you pin a post to the top of LinkedIn?
Scroll down to locate the correct post and click the More icon to complete one of the following actions: Select Pin to top from the dropdown. You'll see Pinned in the upper right corner of the post. The post will move to the top of the Posts and Recent posts section [member view] of your Page.
How do I order projects on LinkedIn?
To sort your project list:.
Click Projects at the top of your homepage..
Click the Sort by dropdown..
Select a facet: Last viewed by me. Date created: newest to oldest. Date created: oldest to newest. Project name: A-Z. Project name: Z-A..