Hello, everyone, welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie,
where I teach you different ways that you can make money
online and become a work from home freelancer. So I have
done a few different tutorials lately about how to use
LinkedIn and find remote jobs on LinkedIn, and make your
profile more attractive to potential recruiters or when
you are actively applying for jobs. So LinkedIn has a
recruiter feature. And people who are searching for
candidates or for talent can actually filter through to
search for the right candidates. And they can
search and find people who have proven that they have
certain skills. So it's easy on LinkedIn to put that you
have a dozen skills. But unless you actively prove that
you have these skills, people don't know for sure, and
that's why they have these skill assessments. So if you
pass these different skill assessments, you will get a
badge on your profile. So it's important to do the skill
assessments for the different skills you have, so that if
someone is actively trying to find talent, or a person to
hire, they will not filter you out. So there are many
different skill assessments available on LinkedIn. There
are technical skills, business skills, and design skills. So
again, this is a feature that allows you to take assessments
or quizzes on these skills, and get the badge to verify
that you actually have these skills. So there are all sorts
of technical skills, business skills, so Microsoft
PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Google ads, and design skills.
So Adobe Photoshop, after effects. So I'm going to show
you in this tutorial, how to take these tests where you go
to take them, I'm going to show you what happens when you
pass what the tests look like, and also show you what happens
if you fail. And if there's an opportunity to retake the
test. And then I'm going to show you how to put these
skills on your profile and actually display the badge.
Because once I pass one of these assessments, I could not
figure out how to actually display the badge on my
profile and display it at the top. So I'm going to teach you
how to do that as well. So let's get started. Okay, so
I'm on my LinkedIn profile. And what you're going to do is
scroll down on your profile until you get to the skills
section. And you may or may not have already added your
skills here. But what we're going to do is click on the
demonstrate skills button. So from here, we're going to
scroll down to where it says take skill assessments. And as
you can see, for each different test, you have to
answer 15 multiple choice questions. And if you score in
the top 30%, you'll earn a skill badge. So just click on
skill assessments. And this is going to direct you to all the
different skill assessments you can take. So at the top
here, you can click either on all to see all the skill
assessments available. You can click recommended industry
knowledge, tools and technology or you can search
for your desired skill. In my case, I decided to take the
Microsoft PowerPoint skill assessment. So I just clicked
on the skill assessment. Then they show you a little bit of
information about the test, you'll see the topics, you'll
see how many multiple choice questions and you'll see how
many minutes you get per question, you get 1.5 minutes
per question. Now before you start, you must complete this
assessment in one session, make sure your internet is
reliable. You can retake this assessment once if you don't
earn a badge. And we won't show your results to anyone
without your permission. So when you're ready to take the
test, just click Start. And that will take you through 15
different questions down here you can see there's a
countdown so you have a minute and 30 seconds to answer each
question. So what you'll do is you'll just click on your
answer, and then you'll click Next to go to the next
question. So once you're finished all 15 questions,
you'll click View Results. And they will instantly tell you
whether or not you passed. So you can see it says great
work, you earned a badge. I was in the top 5% of the
people who took this test. And then here it says Show your
badge on your profile and in recruiter searches. So you
want to make sure this is enabled and is toggled on. If
you want to turn it off, you can just click off. Then
scroll down and click done. So now you can see that I will
have one badge which is the Microsoft PowerPoint badge.
I recommend only taking skill assessments that are related
to your field and into the type of work that you are
trying to get into or that's relevant to your personal work
experience. So you can click back to go back to more skill
assessments. And you can try another one and let's say you
want to take one but you want to practice before you start.
Just click on practice. And then that will let you try to
questions without affecting your score. And in practice
mode, you can check your answer after each question. So
if I go into practice mode here, I can try to answer one
of these questions. And if I get it wrong, they'll let me
know which is incorrect and which is correct. And then
once you're finished the practice, you can click back
to question overview, or you can click start to start the
quiz. Now, if you fail, it will say unfortunately, you
didn't pass in six months, you'll get another chance to
retake the assessment. In the meantime, LinkedIn learning
can help you prepare. So there are free courses that may help
you improve. It says courses are available for 24 hours
after you start them. So you can take some of these courses
if you want to try to pass these skill assessments. So
after I got my first badge, I wanted to display it on my
profile. But when I scrolled down to skills, I was not
seeing it on my profile. So what you have to do to make
sure it pops up on your profile. And if you want it to
be one of the first skills that is displayed is click on
the Plus button beside demonstrate skills. And you
have to add that skill, LinkedIn does not
automatically add that skill to your profile. So make sure
you add the correct skill that you just took the test for. So
in this instance, it's Microsoft PowerPoint, then you
can tell them where you would put the skill to use. So you
can put it under your experience or your education,
for example, and then click Save. So do that for all the
assessments that you have taken. And then you can see
here, if I scroll down, you can see that Microsoft
PowerPoint, the skill is there. And it also has the
Verify badge that says I passed the LinkedIn skill
assessment. Now I want to rearrange this, especially if
this was really important to your job, we want to reorder
our skills. So we're going to go to the top, click on the
three dots, and then click reorder. And from here, you're
going to click on this little button and drag your skill to
the top. So that will be one of the first fields that
people see. And they'll see that you have the verified
badge that you pass that skill assessment. So now when we go
to my profile, you'll see that I just reordered it, so it's
at the top, so you want to make sure to do that. It just
makes your profile look much more professional and it
proves that you have those skills. So make sure to take
all the assessments for the different skills that you
have. This is a great way to be able to make your profile
look more professional and also so that recruiters will
be able to find you if they are looking for someone who
has some of the skills that you have. So thank you guys so
much for watching this video. Make sure to subscribe to my
channel for more videos just like this one, and I will see
you in my next tutorial.