This week is the one-year mark of offering verification for free on LinkedIn. In 2023 we introduced this authenticity feature for members to connect with real people, real companies and real jobs. In the last 12 months we’ve expanded verification access thanks to our collaborations with CLEAR, Persona, and Microsoft Entra. Globally, 800M members now have the option to verify at least one detail of their professional identity. Today, 50% of job views on LinkedIn are of jobs with verifications on them. In the coming days we’re launching Recruiter Verification. With this new feature, we offer members and customers verification options that cater to every aspect of the job search process - for recruiters, job seekers, and job postings. Recruiter Verification will help recruiters verify their professional identity as a legitimate representative of their company and make this information visible to job seekers. Based on our own data and reports from platforms across the internet, we know that posing as a recruiter is a common way bad actors attempt to scam people. While we successfully intercept the majority of detected fake accounts and scams, verification is a step in our ongoing efforts to help foster genuine and trustworthy interactions on LinkedIn. As authenticity becomes increasingly important to the workforce of the future, we’ll continue identifying more ways to be inclusive so more members and customers can participate in verification. Stay tuned to follow our ongoing efforts to expand and invest in authenticity on LinkedIn.
Tim Chattaway
2mo
Hmm, so is the only metric to verify someone is a verified recruiter is if they pay for LinkedIn Recruiter? If so that's not verification, its confirmation of payment.
Bob Salem
2mo
Well done Oscar and LinkedIn team. When I complained to you in 2022, the "Pig Butchering" was in its prime. My daily LinkedIn invites from deceptively amazing attractive, young, and successful executives (CEO, COO, CFO, VP, and Investors) swamped my account. Glad to see LinkedIn still cares for its members.
John W.
2mo
Great idea. Ideally, every job posting should have a verified recruiter associated with it. And verified applicants should likely receive priority in the application queue. I’m also curious if LinkedIn will be verifying degrees as well. The goal should be to become the most trusted platform online.
Andrinique D.
2mo
Awesome ! Now LinkedIN needs to nail down their Customer Support / Help Desk, as it stands now the support is not efficient ! Also, implement an mechanism that will block fake jobs from being posted and preventing jobs being reposted multiple times with a specific time period ( 60 days ?? ).
Gregg Burkhalter
2mo
Does the recruiter have to have a LinkedIn Recruiter paid subscription in order to be verified as a recruiter?
Clarene Mitchell
2mo
I appreciate efforts like this from LinkedIn that ensure a quality platform.
👩🏾💻Whitney L.
2mo
So needed. I can’t tell you how many people I know who had have fraudulent encounters from false and devious job postings.
Hilton McCall
2mo
Trust is the cornerstone of authenticity, great to see the LinkedIn team are working towards a more trusted platform Oscar Rodriguez
Garry Reynolds
2mo
I'd love to hear more
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2moI have been unsuccessfully attempting to verify my account for more than 3 months. Verifying with a school or work account if not an option, so Clear is my only option to verify my account. After hours of investigation, I was informed that Clear is unable to verify my account because I do not have Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile. Verification is a great way to reduce the risk of bad actors. However, the lack of options to become verified is leaving some users behind, arguably the users that will be affected the most by the inability to verify, the recently unemployed or those who do not have the time or money to switch to a more expensive cell carrier. Are we trying to make it harder for those with less ability to be noticed on LinkedIn and placed in a well-suited role? LinkedIn advertises 'Verified profiles have 60% more views', implying that unverified accounts receive 60% less views. Why is there no other way to verify, reducing inequality? The support team surely would have verified me and resolved the problem, if this was an option. Additionally, Clear uses facial recognition technology to verify people in other scenarios. Why can it not be deployed here?