Verifying your skills: LinkedIn
You can now verify your skills on LinkedIn. The platform has introduced skill assessments, where on completion it adds a ‘verified skill’ badge to your profile. This is still in testing so is only available in English and isn’t accessible to all users.
76% of professionals want employers to be able to verify their skills, according to a new LinkedIn research. In response to this, LinkedIn has added the assessments, so people are able to validate their skills to employers to help stand out.
Once you have completed the assessment you will earn a badge that can (optional) be display on your profile LinkedIn Recruiters and LinkedIn jobs. Therefore, Recruiters and hiring managers as able to identify quickly qualified candidates.
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Another thing about the addition is that once an assessment has been passed, recommendations and relevant jobs will be sent to the user.
Completing the assessments can improve your chances of getting hired, in an announcement by the company:
“When skills are validated you can showcase your proficiency and become more discoverable to opportunities — early results show candidates who complete LinkedIn Skill Assessments are significantly more likely (~30%) to get hired.”
How to take the skill assessments
If you go onto your own profile and scroll down to the skills section, there will be a ‘take skill quiz’ button.
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The results are private. You need 70% or above to pass the assessment, once you complete it you will have an option to add the badge to your profile. The badge is only valid for 12 months and will expire after.
Do not worry if you don’t pass, you can take the assessment one more time in another 3 months. LinkedIn will provide an overview of the assessment regardless of the outcome. It will also unlock relevant learning free for a limited time.
What assessments are available
The assessments are in three categories; Tech, General and other skills. But hope to add later. Here are some specific assessments, just a note that because it is still in testing you may not have all of these options.
Tech skills:
Angular, AutoCAD, AWS, Bash, C, C#, C ++, CSS, GIT, Hadoop, HTML, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Maven, MongoDB, NodeJs, Objective-C, PHP, Python, R, React.js, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scala, Swift, WordPress, XML.
General skills:
Adobe Acrobat, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Word, Quickbooks.
Other skills:
Maya, Revit.
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