LinkedIn LinkedIn Recommendations

With LinkedIn, you can ask colleagues, clients, and other people in your network to you endorse you through LinkedIn Recommendations. Kind of like a reference letter, recommendations reinforce your professional identity online. Thankfully, LinkedIn makes it easy to request recommendations and return the favor.

LinkedIn recommendations from colleagues constitute “Social Proof.” Someone else has vouched that you are good at your job and can deliver results if they get into business with you.

Writing recommendations for others can be powerful and shows that your LinkedIn presence isn’t just about promoting yourself, it’s about being part of the overall network of professionals. 

Note:  If someone asks for a recommendation, but you don’t feel comfortable endorsing this person, be honest but polite in telling him you would rather not.

To recommend someone, click on Profile and select Recommendations.  From this page you can manage recommendations you’ve received from your connections, request recommendations, and make recommendations for others. 

If you’d like someone to recommend you, find a position you’d like to be endorsed for and click “Ask to be endorsed.” Then select a colleague from your current or past position to endorse you.