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The Underrated LinkedIn Section You Didn't Know Held the Key to Your Success

20 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this short instructional video, the speaker highlights LinkedIn’s recommendations section as the platform’s most underutilized feature. While most users focus on self‑descriptive elements—profile picture, banner, about, experience—the recommendations area provides third‑party validation, acting as social proof of a professional’s impact and success. The speaker argues that without recommendations, viewers lack evidence of a person’s achievements. He urges viewers to actively request recommendations, treat them as a critical credibility asset, and refresh them every six to eight months to keep the profile current and compelling.

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The most underrated section of LinkedIn is recommendations. If you look at LinkedIn as a whole, from the top to the bottom, it's always about you talking about yourself. I am this, this is my profile pic, this is my banner, this is my about section, this is my experience, blah blah. There's only one section in the whole LinkedIn profile. I don't know what they have down the bottom, to be honest. I've actually written to LinkedIn a long time ago and said you should put this higher up. That's where people vouch for you. People are putting their name on the line to talk about you and how you've helped them. This is a social proof of every LinkedIn profile. If you haven't got recommendations, then people don't know what success or impact you've had. Get recommendations. Get them every 6 months to 8 months. Update them.