Hi, I’m Jeri Walker, Career & Job Search Strategist and Founder of Your Best Designed Career
and in this video I'm going to show you how to request a LinkedIn recommendation
so that you can get instant social proof and increase your credibility on LinkedIn.
And be sure to stay to the end of this video because I’m going to share a resource with
you that will help you in your career.
One of the things that will persuade people to do business with you or hire you is if
someone else recommends you.
Just as celebrities may endorse a specific product to influence you to buy it, having
a third party recommendation on your LinkedIn profile is a really effective way to gain
credibility and social proof.
It’s important as you move through your career to ask for these recommendations.
You can ask your manager, your colleague, your direct reports, or even a customer.
And don’t wait until you are job searching to ask for these.
If you’ve just completed a big project, that’s the time to ask for the recommendations.
Now I do suggest that before you send somebody a recommendation request, give them a head’s
up just with a quick conversation.
Let them know that you are going to send them a recommendation request on LinkedIn so that
they’ll know what to look for.
Now, let me show you how to do it.
Okay I’m at my profile now and you will need to be connected to the person that you
are asking a recommendation from so I’m going to ask Julie.
Now once you’re on that person’s profile you click this More button and then you have
the Request a Recommendation option.
And you’re going to have all kinds of choices here as to how you’re connected to this
person how you know this person.
So let’s just say that we were in the same group.
And then I’m just going to pick this employer and then click Next.
Alright, you’re given this default message but you really want to try and personalize
this so that you’ve got a little bit of direction you can give them some direction
as to really what you want them to talk about.
So I’m just putting here can you discuss the time that I helped you with the specific
account or project.
That way they can really have some guidance.
And then click send.
Then if I check my messaging I can see the sent message to Julie that is requesting the
recommendation.
Now if we go to the other side what Julie is going to see when she goes to her messaging
is this message from me asking her to write the Recommendation.
So what she will do is go into this message and click on this link.
And then she can click on this write a recommendation option.
And she’ll just type in her recommendation right here.
Here’s your recommendation.
And she’ll click send.
And then I receive a message again back in my inbox that tells me that she’s sent me
a recommendation so I can click on this link and it’s going to allow me to preview it.
Now you have the options here to ask for a revision but it’s not something I recommend,
if somebody’s taken the time to give you a recommendation you should probably accept
it unless they are way off base.
So generally you’re going to click on this add to profile option which I’m not going
to do right now so let’s just dismiss this.
And that’s how easy it is to ask for a recommendation.
Now you know how to request a recommendation on LinkedIn but do you know what the other
important pieces of your LinkedIn profile are?
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Okay, go get those recommendations.
I’ll see you next time.