If you've been wondering about the LinkedIn skills assessment feature on LinkedIn,
then keep watching, because in this video, I'm going to lay out everything you need to know about
this feature on LinkedIn. How do you take the skills assessment? Will it actually help you land
your next opportunity? What do you do if you fail the assessment? If you want to know all of this
and more, stick around, because I have everything you need to know about this topic, but before we
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a new video because I post weekly content and I want you to be the first to know about it. What is
the LinkedIn skills assessment? The LinkedIn skills assessment is an online assessment
that is administered by LinkedIn that allows you to show how proficient you are in a skill that
is listed on your profile. You'll be asked to answer 15, multiple choice questions related to
that specific topic. Once LinkedIn raises your assessment, you have to score within the top
30% of LinkedIn's benchmark in order to obtain what is known as a skills badge. That pretty much
lets people who are viewing your profile, that you are proficient in that skill. You can display this
skills badge on your profile, and you'll also come up in recruiters search at the time of this video,
LinkedIn offers these skills assessments in three different areas. The first is technical
skills like JavaScript, Python And XML. The second is in business skills like Google ads,
Microsoft Excel and QuickBooks. And the third is design skills like Adobe illustrator,
Photoshop, and keynote. Now let's get into how to actually take the assessments in LinkedIn.
Okay? So once I'm in my LinkedIn profile, I'm going to scroll all the way to the skills section
of my profile. Here it is. Once I'm there, I'm going to click the button that says take a skill
quiz. I can now see all the different quizzes and assessments that LinkedIn has available. I can
filter it by all recommendations. These are the ones that LinkedIn recommends based on my profile,
industry, knowledge and tools and technology. Once I click into one of these assessments, again,
I have some details and some tips that LinkedIn gives me. It says that you can only retake this
once. If you don't have the badge, I could choose to practice the assessment with questions about
affecting your score, or I could directly choose to start the assessment. In that case,
I will just click the blue start button. So from there, you'll take the assessment and get
your results. It's important to know that your results are private by default. So once you've
taken the assessments, LinkedIn will not publish your results on their platform. It will be
private. You have the option to display the skills badge that you obtain if you score within the
top 30% of LinkedIn's benchmark, what happens if you fail? Don't worry. You could retake the test
once more within six months of taking your initial test, but don't worry. Even if you fail,
LinkedIn will not publish your results. So it doesn't hurt to take the test even if you don't
pass. Now, let's get into the golden question. Will taking a skills assessment actually boost
your chances of getting a job? Well, according to LinkedIn candidates who completed LinkedIn
skills assessments are significantly more likely, approximately 30% to get hired.
Why is that? Well, if you think about it from the perspective of a recruiter,
if I'm using LinkedIn's recruiter tool, I can actually go onto my tool. If I'm searching for
candidates to fill an open position, and I need them to be specifically skilled in a certain
area or a certain tool, say QuickBooks, I can actually filter my search in my LinkedIn
recruiter tool to only show me those people that have the QuickBooks skill badge on their profile.
This means that they are skilled in this area. Not only will it make my time a lot easier,
but it actually helps me to filter candidates based on those that have the skills badge on
their profile. LinkedIn also says it's not mandatory for you to take the assessment. However,
taking the assessment will help you stand out by showcasing that you have the desired skills of an
ideal candidate, as well as increase your chances of getting noticed by other recruiters.
In my opinion, I've had so many clients land jobs through LinkedIn
without having the skills badge. It doesn't hurt to have them. If you have the time and you want
to optimize every part of your job search, a skills assessment might help for me. The most
important thing that I tell my clients to do is to ensure that your profile is fully optimized using
keywords that recruiters are searching for. That is the most important thing. Have you
taken a LinkedIn skills assessment before? Let me know in the comments below, I'm curious to know.
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