Greetings Friends
Wishing you all a very lovely spring 🌸 and of course best wishes for Memorial Day. 🇺🇸 Let's be sure to never forget our heroes.
I have been super busy with presentations and general client work. I am grateful for the opportunities. In between all of this, I try my best to keep up with the crazy amount of LinkedIn changes. Let's get started with the new features:
LinkedIn Updates – May 2023
For Job Seekers
👉 Job seekers can indicate a position is a "top choice" as they apply. I think this is an excellent way to differentiate yourself with an employer.
👉 LinkedIn is now prompting Premium members to add key skills to their profiles. Select a preferred job and LinkedIn will suggest relevant skills. Then you decide if they should be added to your profile.
👉 Job seekers can soon find verifications for jobs and companies. This is important to fight scam job listings.
👉 Look for "Recommended for You" jobs in the Jobs tab. Nice.
For Creators:
👉 LinkedIn is integrating and promoting AI at a pretty good pace. They are now beta-testing suggested content for draft posts.
👉 Creators can find "Conversations happening now" that are relevant to their topic areas. It's an opportunity to jump in with your insightful comments.
👉 I just heard that hashtag counts will become visible as we post. That would be great info to have.
👉 LinkedIn is beta testing "ideas for your next post" which might be very helpful.
👉 Look in notifications for "Your scheduled post is now live." Great to get the validation of the successful launch of the post.
Interesting for all:
👉 Follower Expulsion. LinkedIn recently eliminated phony, banned, and restricted accounts. This may have impacted you if you notice a lower follower or connection count.
👉 Look for a prompt to "expand your network" in the Notifications tab. This is a beta test and is based on the new connections of your connections.
👉 LinkedIn is testing a custom "Call to Action" button for some premium accounts. Previously, this was just available for Creators, so I applaud this expanded opportunity for more people.
👉 Select your feed preferences in Settings now. You can choose between "most relevant" or "most recent." Go to Account Preferences and then Feed Preferences.
👉 Another security feature. You can elect to be notified with an account log-in as a mobile app user.
👉 Check out LinkedIn's new video series called Catalyst.
👉 Premium members are being invited to offer a two-month free trial to friends. This has been standard with Sales Navigator, so it looks like they decided to extend to regular Premium. Pretty nice.
👉 Find your reactions now on your personal "Posts and Activity" page.
May 🌸 Gratitude and Advice Corner:
👉 Check out the upgraded profile verification feature - details here in my post.
👉 Speakers and AI? Here is my take on this hot topic. Post
👉 Happy 20th Birthday to LinkedIn! 🎂 Post
👉 Speaking of AI - Artificial Intelligence - will you vote and let me know which photos of me are real or fake? Post
👉 Gratitude to friends Bart Barkey and Gail Lowney Alofsin who invited me to speak at his live Leadership event - Check it out. Link
👉 Video for YOU - Quick and easy - Update your skills Video Post
👉 Check out this post about Sales Follow-up advice Post
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