New research from LinkedIn shows that 76% of professionals wish that employers were able to verify their skills. LinkedIn is introducing skill assessments which allow users to demonstrate their expertise and add a “ verified skill” badge to their profile. Once this code is entered into LinkedIn Lookup, they’re considered verified. Verification is as simple as LinkedIn sending an email to their work email address with a four-digit code. LinkedIn does allow people to get a checkmark for its LinkedIn Lookup product, which means they work for the company they’ve specified. Join Virlan to learn more about getting a a blue tick on LinkedIn. It would seem that a network for communicating with peers, sharing company news, networking and job seeking would have a Facebook-like way to verify a profile or company page, but LinkedIn runs things a little differently.
