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Our teams at LinkedIn are constantly enhancing features to help you steer clear of scams & bad actors. Check out this article for a few tips that you may find helpful as you look for your next opportunity!

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.

Authenticity is important, and our members expect the people and companies they engage with to be real and authentic. Learn more about what you can do and how our teams and technology are working behind the scenes to help keep your LinkedIn experience just the way you want it:https://lnkd.in/gdxz6dDU

Great news for LinkedIn members: We've successfully won our legal battle against TopSocial and SocialBD24 for creating fake LinkedIn profiles. This victory reinforces our commitment to maintaining a trusted and authentic community. See Sarah's post for more info.

Today, Keren Baruch shared several new tools for members to establish their voice with LinkedIn Newsletters, one of them being through verification. With 500 million professionals subscribed to the 146,000 newsletters on LinkedIn, our recent verification badge feature will make it even easier to identify trusted voices on LinkedIn. We know how important it is for you to receive quality content from real people when you’re on our platform. This is why verification is a priority for us––it provides authenticity signals so you can make more informed decisions around interacting with other professionals. We'll continue expanding verification globally to 100 million people by 2025. Check out Keren’s post for more details on the new tools for LinkedIn newsletters.

🌟 Hiring: Principal Product Manager 🌟 I'm on the lookout for a subject-matter expert to join our Trust Product Management function at LinkedIn. If you have a deep background in various aspects of the trust ecosystem, such as manual review efficiency, adversarial spaces, elections, and feature onboarding, and you're ready to roll up your sleeves, this might be the ideal opportunity for you. This role is a chance to make a significant impact, ensuring LinkedIn remains safe, trusted, and professional for our 1B+ members worldwide. https://lnkd.in/gH_7iza4

Our teams are working every day to keep people who use LinkedIn safe from evolving threats to privacy, security and safety. Today, I want to share updates we are making to better protect you against unauthorized scraping so you can focus on finding your next dream job, building connections and sharing your expertise with your professional community. Starting today, we are updating our systems to better prevent unauthorized extensions from scraping data.