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Learn how to navigate the Community with our user guides and help resources.

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
📣 Introducing a Flexible Community Experience!

At LinkedIn, we’re always looking for ways to improve how our members interact, engage, and unlock valuable insights.With that, we are excited to announce the transition the LinkedIn Talent Community to a more flexible format. This change creates a blend of public and private spaces within the Community, giving potential new members the chance to explore and immerse themselves in the content and discussions before signing in to unlock the full experience! ⭐️ Current, Registered Members: Please note that in the new experience, it may appear that you are logged in while viewing publicly available content. To continue enjoying the full Community experience, you may be prompted to log back into the site.  Staying logged in ensures you have full access to posts, images, comments, and all the features our Community offers. We believe this new model will enhance the experience for both current and potential members, creating a more dynamic space and making it easier for newcomers to discover

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Wael Bakhaty
Certified Community Expert
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
👋🏼 Introduce yourself and meet the Community! 👋🏼Get Started

Welcome to the LinkedIn Talent Community! We are delighted you are here! Take a moment to introduce yourself in the comments below. (Fun facts, gifs & memes are always fun too! Just keep it professional folks 😉)👋🏼 What is your name, and what is your industry and profession?  🌏 Where are you located? 💻 What LinkedIn Talent Solutions products are you using? How long? ⭐️ What do you hope to get out of your experience in the Talent Community?  🙋🏼‍♀️ I’ll kick us off!👋🏼 I’m Courtney, and I am your Community Manager. I’ve been in the talent & HR SaaS space for over 10 years - as a Customer Success Manager (shout out to CSMs! 🙌🏼), in internal enablement, and the best of both worlds in community-building! 🌏 I am located off the beautiful Emerald Coast of Florida (Gulf of Mexico), USA 🌊 🏝️☀️ where I try to take in water activities 🏄🏼‍♀️ & digging in the dirt 👩🏼‍🌾 as often as possible.💻 I’m a massive fan of LinkedIn Learning, as a learner! Skill-development is an

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Christine Tabb
Community Newcomer
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
[FAQ] New, Flexible Community Experience

Welcome to the new Talent Community experience! Explore a dynamic blend of public and private spaces, where you can discover incredible resources, get inspired, and see what we’re all about. Ready for the full experience? Just log in to unlock exclusive content, explore best practices, make deeper connections, and everything our Community has to offer!Here are some FAQs about the new Community experience!  What content will be publicly visible? A selection of valuable LinkedIn resources shared by employees, insightful LinkedIn data, case studies, and other publicly available materials will be available for everyone to view. This will give potential members an understanding of the value of Community before joining. What content will require a login? To unlock the full experience, you’ll need to log in. Private content like exclusive events, peer-to-peer insights, personalized posts, comments, and your shared images are reserved for only our logged-in members. Creating an account ensures

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wmann
Certified Community Influencer
Meghan-Community Team
Certified Community Expert
Meghan-Community TeamCertified Community Expert
published in Community Onboarding
Discover LinkedIn’s New AI Resources: The Community AI Hub & AI Empowerment Center

In a world where AI is reshaping how we work, connect, and learn, LinkedIn is making it easier than ever to stay ahead. We’re excited to introduce two powerful new resources designed to help you harness the full potential of Recruiter’s AI features: the Community AI Hub and the AI Empowerment Center. 🌐 Explore the Community AI HubVisit the AI Hub →The Community AI Hub is your gateway to real conversations, resources, and thought leadership around Recruiter & AI. Whether you're curious about the latest innovations, looking to learn the tools, or eager to see how your peers are using AI in their roles, this hub is where the AI conversation is happening. Dive in to discover: Tips and best practices for Recruiter AI’s features  AI trends and thought leadership curated by the LinkedIn team Member spotlights sharing real-world use cases Discussions and events that keep you plugged into the AI ecosystem Let’s continue the conversation to make this a growing community of professiona

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Grace Wang
Certified Community Learner
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
🏅 Community Mission and Discretionary Badges

Hello Community members, We consider every action you take on the community as mini-milestones to be celebrated! 🎉The badges on your profile and the rank next to your name are our way of giving back for all that you do in engaging with your fellow community members. Mission Badges 1. How do you earn Mission Badges?These are to be awarded automatically by the Community when members perform a certain number of posts or comments in our Community.2. Types of Mission Badges Getting StartedYou have created your first Community post. Thank you for embarking on this journey with us. Looking forward to getting to know you. Great job!​     Top ContributorYou have created at least 10 posts. Your contributions have helped you and our Community to find the answers to open queries. Great job!     [in]novatorYou have contributed with unique ideas to our Community. Keep rocking!​    Trending TopicA post you’ve started is becoming popular. Your discussion already has more than 10 comments from your pe

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wmann
Certified Community Influencer
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
🎖️ Community Member Ranks & Badges

Our main goal with the Community is to see you grow as a professional and leader, recognize you for your milestones and achievements, and ultimately help you become a Certified Community Champion. Our user ranks were established to recognize you for your achievements while unlocking access to additional Community resources and exclusive perks. Below you can find all the user ranks, how you can level up, and the unique perks you can receive at certain ranks.How Do Member Ranks Work?An active and healthy Community relies on the contributions made by its members. Community members automatically increase their ranks based on their interactions. Your active participation will be reflected by your high user rank, which shows other Community members you are an engaged member and a trusted source they can reach out to.  Here are some of the activities that will earn you points:  Liking a piece of content. 👍 Receiving a like. 👍 Mentioning someone. ＠ Receiving comments on your post(s). �

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wmann
Certified Community Influencer
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
Keep using your Community account when changing companies

Changing companies? No worries!Take your Talent Community account (and badges) with you wherever you go.📧 Just email tcommunity@linkedin.com with your new email address, and we’ll update it for you.No need to create another account, however, you may update your Profile picture, details and expand on your A bit about yourself area any time!

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
👋🏼 New Members: Get Started Here!Get Started

Hello! 👋🏽Welcome to the LinkedIn Talent Community, exclusive for LinkedIn talent, learning and HR customers. On behalf of the entire Community team, I want to say that we are so happy you are here! To help you get started, here are some tips and resources that aim to enhance your experience in the community.📣 Everyone enjoys a friendly hello 👋🏼! Review the 5 tips below, jump over to Introduce Yourself to the Community!ResourcesHere you will find Community and Product resources to help you a quick start. Community Resources include Community Guidelines, FAQs, ways to earn badges, as well as Member Roundtable recordings and recaps. We are expanding Product Resources with weekly Product Tips, feature updates and more so check back often. 👉🏼 TIP: Right-click on the links in this article to open them in a new browser window and keep your spot here!DiscussionsHere you will find Community Announcements, Member Spotlights, and the latest topics from your peers. Have a product question?

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OLADAPO AKINLOYE
Certified Community Newcomer
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
🔦 Resource Spotlight: Learning CenterResource

Have you visited the LinkedIn Talent Solutions Learning Center lately?The Learning Center hosts over 2000 on-demand, instructor-led-training and guided experiences such as tutorials, videos and other materials across 11 languages. These resources are designed to empower you to get the most of your LinkedIn Talent Solutions products.Live webinars in multiple regions and languages Recorded webinars in multiple languages Quick tips to expand your skills (Hello! Find your InMail Template Magic ✨ )Take a quick tour here.

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
🔔 Community Notification CenterCOMMUNITY FEATURE

Recruiter and LinkedIn Learning aren’t the only ones getting some cool new features! Have you noticed the new Notification Center here in the Talent Community?The Notification Center is an ‘in-app’ experience that provides you with near real-time updates on community activity such as mentions, replies, and new posts. You can access your notifications from the top-right corner of your screen, and engage with them by clicking in, or mark them as read.  Notification types supported in the notification center:Mentions Replies New topic in a subscribed Category/Group Approval joining groups Invitations to groups Private messages Right answer📧 For activities that currently trigger an email notification, they will now be displayed in the Notification Center. The notification status can be one of the following:Unread: New notifications are marked as unread. They change to read status when clicked/opened, or when "Mark all as read" is clicked. New: The New section shows all recent unread notif

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
✍🏼 Update Your Community Profile to Help Us Serve You BetterCOMMUNITY TIP

Hello Community Members!We want to make sure you’re getting the most out of our community with content, events, and communications that matter to YOU. To do this, we need your help!By updating your community profile with your role/title, Company, interests, functional focus, and geographic location, you’ll allow us to tailor the experience to meet your unique needs. Whether you’re a recruiter, sourcer, or learning professional, this quick update will ensure you don’t miss out on the most relevant discussions, resources and events. 📍 Here’s how you can update your profile:From any page within Community, go to your avatar at the top right corner. Click on your avatar and select My profile.    Select Edit profile. Be sure to Save changes!   It only takes a moment, and it’ll make a big difference in how we engage with you. Thank you for helping us improve your community experience!Please feel welcome to reach out directly if you have any trouble updating your profile, and the Community

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Meghan-Community Team
Certified Community Expert
Meghan-Community TeamCertified Community Expert
published in Community Onboarding
📣 Community Localization Updates

Did you know that our young Community has already surpassed 10,000 members?! 🎉 As we continue to grow, a large focus for the team behind this community is ensuring that it appeals to every global customer, regardless of the language you speak. This why we are excited to announce some fun updates to the Community site, as well as what we have coming soon!  NEW Site Language Picker You may have noticed already, but there is a NEW language picker now live on the site. Clicking on this drop down allows you to translate basic phrases on the site to any of the following supported languages: Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish.  An image highlighting the new Community site language picker NEW Language Groups Recently, the Community launched our official Italian and Spanish language groups! They join our already thriving French, German (DACH), and Portuguese groups with the goal to provide content that is not only in your preferred l

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Meghan-Community Team
Certified Community Expert
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
📌 Community Tip Tuesday: Where can I find my private messages in the Community?Community Tip Tuesday

📥 Did you receive an email notification that you have private message in the Community but you aren’t sure where to find it? To locate your sent or received private messages within the Community, follow these steps:Go to your profile image or avatar at the top right of the page. Click on your profile image to open the menu; select Private messages.         Voilá! Here you will find all of your sent and received private messages.         Stay tuned for the next 📌 Community Tip Tuesday to learn how to send private messages to fellow Community members or the Community team. 

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
📌 Community Tip Tuesday: Where did the "Start a new post" button go?Community Tip Tuesday

If you find yourself on a Community page that does not have the ‘Start a new post’ prompt (see 👇🏼), do not fear! You can also begin a new post directly from the Search 🔍 widget.‘Start a new post’ prompt To start a new post from within Search widget, simply begin typing in the search bar. You’ll notice the search will begin returning results from the Community & Learning Center; scroll to the bottom to ‘Start a new post’.  ‘Start a new post’ from within Search widgetVoilá! Ask a question, start a discussion or share a product idea from anywhere you are in the Community.

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
📌 Community Tip: How to subscribe to a categoryHow To

You’ve probably noticed that you receive email notifications when you create a post and someone replies, or if someone @mentions you in a discussion. But what if you’d like to receive notifications for an entire category or forum within the Community?For example, if you’d like to be notified anytime there is a new post (article or discussion) in the Highlighted Events category, simply hit the Subscribe button on that page. To learn more about how to subscribe to an individual topic or post, or how to manage your notification settings, check out these Community FAQs.

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
✨ Community Guiding PrinciplesGet Started

Welcome to the LinkedIn Talent Community! The Talent Community is a space for us to work together in a really efficient, collaborative, and innovative way. To make this Community the best possible space for everyone, we would like to share with you our simple guiding principles: Be RespectfulWe like to keep things friendly and expect everyone to be treated with respect. All of us come from a diverse background and we welcome that here in this forum. Please be committed to treating your fellow community members with the utmost kindness and respect. This is a welcoming community of users (most importantly human beings) and we must make it a priority to keep this forum a safe space where everyone feels comfortable. No name-calling, offensive behavior, or bullying is allowed ever.  Contribute & CollaboratePost thoughtful content and questions, engage with your peers, and learn from one another. Our moderators will post helpful content but we really want to learn and hear from you! Take

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Wael Bakhaty
Certified Community Expert
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
❓Community How To & FAQsF.A.Q.

👋🏼 Hello and welcome! We know you may have questions as you begin familiarizing yourself with the Talent Solutions Community, and we want to make sure we have answers. We’ve started a running list of questions we anticipate, but please reply below👇🏼 if there’s something we haven’t thought of, and I’ll add it here with a reply!Let’s get started! What is the purpose of the Talent Solutions Community?The Talent Solutions Community serves as a hub to connect customers with valuable resources like the Learning Center to enhance your product knowledge and skills with on-demand and live training, the library of articles for technical support in the Help Center, and most importantly, to each other! The Community is a space to collaborate with peers by sharing best practices, asking questions, and connecting with each other.How do I update my profile?Once you’ve logged into the Community, you can update your profile by going to your avatar at the top right corner, click on the avatar, then

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Anneski
Community Influencer
Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
Courtney-Community ManagerCertified Community Champion
published in Community Onboarding
📌 Community Tip: How to search for an existing Product Idea, submit a new Product Idea, and upvote othersHow To

 As a Community member, one of your perks is access to the Ideas page to share product feedback on LinkedIn Talent Solutions by suggesting new features and/or enhancements directly with the LinkedIn Talent Solutions team. If you haven’t yet tried out the Ideas feature, find out how to get the most out of it below.Access the Ideas FeatureOnce logged into the Community, you’ll be able to find Ideas in the top menu bar, between “Product Updates” and “Events”, from any page in the Community.    Search for an Existing Idea Before you submit your product idea, it might be helpful to check if other members have also thought of the same thing. To see if a similar idea has already been submitted, type a few keywords in the search box on any page from the Homepage to the categories in the Community. If there is a similar suggestion there is an 💡 icon beside the ideas when the search results open down.For example, if you’d like the ability to schedule InMail messages, you’ll see that there are a

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Courtney-Community Manager
Certified Community Champion
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