Maintain a strong LinkedIn presence when you are employed. |
To make your profile (or parts of your profile) more or less public, visit this article.
To make other important privacy setting changes (which can keep you from making career-damaging mistakes), log onto LinkedIn and then click the triangle next to your name in the far upper right corner. (Note: You will need to re-enter your password to access your Settings page.)
In the Privacy Controls section of your Setting page, you can elect to:
Turn on/off your activity broadcasts
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Place a check mark in the box to make your activities public. |
Turn this option on
if you are comfortable with your network receiving LinkedIn Updates when you:
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- Update your profile’s headline
- Add a new current job position
- Add a new current school
- Add a new link to a website
- Recommend someone
- Add a connection
- Follow a LinkedIn company page
- Follow news
Note: Joining a group, adding an application or updating
your photo generates an update even if you turn off your activity broadcast
notifications. To keep people from viewing updates about recent
groups you’ve joined, manually remove the group update from your activity
feed. You can do so by locating the update on your
Activity Feed on your Edit Profile page (under the headline “YOUR NAME’s Activity” on the right navigation bar). Click the
specific update until an “X” appears, then click the “X” to remove
the update.
Make sure you are in Edit Profile mode before trying to remove an update. |
Turn your activity broadcasts off if there is a chance your current employer could see that
you are making major profile updates or are following companies (since both efforts
could infer you are job seeking). Switch your activity broadcasts on after making such modifications so that
your network can see you are active on LinkedIn.
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Select the Everyone option to allow your network to see your activity feed. |
Select who can see
your activity feed – This setting lets you determine who sees your activity
broadcasts (mentioned above) and any information you include in your “Share
Your Update” box on your home page. Your activity feed is displayed on the
right navigation panel of your profile when visitors are logged onto LinkedIn.
Your activity feed does not show on your public profile.
To make your activity
feed viewable to all visitors, select the “Everyone” option so even
recruiters who are not in your network can view your activities. The other
options allow only “Your Network” (1st, 2nd and 3rd
degree connections), “Your Connections” (1st degree connections), or
“Only You” to see your activity feed.
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If you elect one of the anonymous options, you will be prevented from seeing who viewed your profile. |
Select what others
see when you've viewed their profile
Choose from these options:
- Your name and
headline (Recommended)
- Anonymous profile
characteristics such as your industry and title. (Not recommended*)
- Totally anonymous
(Not recommended*)
* These last two options are not recommended because they
prevent you from seeing who has visited your profile (such as
recruiters and hiring managers). NOTE:
Even if you elect to show your full name and headline, you won’t see the names
of people who chose to visit your profile anonymously.
TIP: Want to stealthily check out an old flame’s profile
without them knowing? Simply change your setting to be totally anonymous, visit
his/her page and then change your settings back to your name and headline.
Select who can see
your connections – Be a pal and choose to let your connections view your
connections list so that they can build their network and find friends that you have in common – that’s what social
networking is all about.
Change your profile
photo and visibility – Make your profile photo available to “Everyone” so
even people not in your network (such as recruiters and hiring managers) can
see who you are. Also, (according to a LinkedIn study) by including your photo in your profile, you will be
seven times more likely to get visits to your profile and six times more likely
to be invited to connect.
What questions or comments do you have about changing your privacy settings? Share them here! Thanks, Kathy
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