New LinkedIn feature lets you endorse network members
The professional social network rolls out feature for boosting credibility to a user's skills and expertise.
LinkedIn has introduced a new feature that lets users endorse members of their professional networks.
The Endorsements feature is essentially another form of offering a reference on a LinkedIn profile. It also gives more credibility to skills and expertise listed on a profile in comparison to what might be listed on a paper resume. Similar features exist on other sites that depend on social connections, such as Airbnb.
The professional social network has tried to make offering endorsements as easy and painless as possible. LinkedIn already has programmed recommended endorsements on profile pages, so at a base level, all you have to do is go in and confirm them with just one click.
If you want to be really proactive, you can suggest some more skills and expertise qualities for said contact on your own. From there, LinkedIn will both e-mail you when you have received an endorsement and list who endorsed you on your profile.
LinkedIn touts that the benefits include being able to recommend the skills of contacts and while building your own online professional identity at the same time.
Endorsements launches today on LinkedIn in English first across the United States, India, New Zealand, and Australia. The feature will be rolled out all languages available on the social network to all members over the next few weeks.
This story was first posted as "LinkedIn endorsements offers more credibility behind skill sets" at ZDNet's Between the Lines.