The most important part of trust is knowing who is authentic. In other words, is the person you are engaging with a real person? Are they who they say they are?
This week we expanded verification to help members and businesses built trust on and off… more
The most important part of trust is knowing who is authentic. In other words, is the person you are engaging with a real person? Are they who they say they are?
This week we expanded verification to help members and businesses built trust on and off LinkedIn:
*Professionals can help verify each other’s experience to give people another way to build credibility through the people they’ve actually worked or studied with.
*Businesses can protect their brand reputation with more controls over who is associated with their brand, including new tools to address inaccurate employee associations.
*LinkedIn verified identities can travel to more places off LinkedIn, with Truecaller and PeerSpot joining the growing list of ‘Verified on LinkedIn’ partners.
Get verified on LinkedIn or read more in this article from the Wall Street Journal.The Wall Street Journal
Americans’ anger with fraud in the job search is reaching a fever pitch. Now, LinkedIn is rolling out new tools to help users figure out what is real—and avoid… more
Americans’ anger with fraud in the job search is reaching a fever pitch. Now, LinkedIn is rolling out new tools to help users figure out what is real—and avoid handing over money or their résumés to scammers.
The new levers, which the company plans to release this month, focus on verification, a system through which users can submit government identification and their professional email addresses. In turn, their profiles display a check mark, giving it a sign of authenticity.
The company says it stops tens of millions of fake members who could scam users by posing as recruiters. Still, some slip through the cracks.
The LinkedIn update fills a hole that scammers have used to wrest job seekers’ data and sometimes their cash. Some scammers list themselves as employees of companies where they have never worked. A desperate job seeker might not fact-check that affiliation and, thrilled to be contacted by the purported recruiter, send over her résumé or pay for consulting services to improve her chances at getting a job.
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How do I know if a candidate is real? Why is a person connected to my Company Page even though they don't work at my company?
These are some of the common questions I get from our Hiring and Marketing customers.
The good news is we are making incredible… more
How do I know if a candidate is real? Why is a person connected to my Company Page even though they don't work at my company?
These are some of the common questions I get from our Hiring and Marketing customers.
The good news is we are making incredible progress in building trust on LinkedIn. While we have been focused here for a while - we have over 115 million verified members on the platform with 75 members verifying their identity every minute - we are just getting started.
You can learn more about our new wave of verification updates from Oscar Rodriguez as we continue to take steps to ensure trust remains a core part of the LinkedIn experience:
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"Who is real" has become the most important question on the Internet. You can't talk, let alone do business with someone, when you don't trust who they are.
We’ve made good progress here. 75 people now verify their profile every minute, adding to the 115M+… more
"Who is real" has become the most important question on the Internet. You can't talk, let alone do business with someone, when you don't trust who they are.
We’ve made good progress here. 75 people now verify their profile every minute, adding to the 115M+ members who have already verified. Along the way, we have learned a lot too. Every government manages identity differently, there is a cost to validating if a person or company is real, not all companies have work email addresses and more. Overcoming these challenges at scale is hard, but critical to get right.
We have a few new features going live to help:
1. We're enabling network verification, promoting verified members to verify connections that they worked or studied with. Obviously there are many edge cases here. Thus, we are building a series of guardrails around this, including ensuring the verifier is already verified, collecting multiple confirmations, time of connection limits, two-factor authentication requirements and more.
2. Company admins can now remove accounts that falsely claim employment from their page (fyi - this will take some time to roll out more broadly) .
3. Rather than requiring everyone to undergo separate, often lengthy, ID checks, you can choose to display your "Verified on LinkedIn" status directly on a growing list of partner platforms, now including Truecaller & PeerSpotlike 250celebrate 39love 18insightful 5support 3
Having a verified profile is important on LinkedIn. We're launching new features to make verification more accessible and trustworthy.
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Authenticity is quickly becoming one of the most valuable currencies on the internet and knowing what’s real and who you can trust matters more than ever.
That’s why I’m SO excited about where we’re taking verification at LinkedIn. More than 115 million… more
Authenticity is quickly becoming one of the most valuable currencies on the internet and knowing what’s real and who you can trust matters more than ever.
That’s why I’m SO excited about where we’re taking verification at LinkedIn. More than 115 million members are now verified, and we’re building new ways to make that trust more human and useful.
Now people who have actually worked or studied alongside you can help verify those shared experiences. Our professional stories aren’t built in isolation and the people who were there are part of what makes those stories credible!
We’re also helping companies better protect the brands they’ve worked so hard to build by making it harder for bad actors to falsely claim they work there.
More from Oscar Rodriguez on where verification is headed next: https://lnkd.in/dPHRt2c6.like 584celebrate 40love 30insightful 12support 7
