One of the most powerful ways to bring credibility to your background and experience is through the recommendations of others. This has always been true for networking, letters of recommendations and referrals. The same is true of our LinkedIn profiles. If you haven’t yet been recommended on LinkedIn, you may want to create a strategy to build out your LinkedIn recommendations.
In part 1 of this series, we’ll go over how to request a Recommendation on LinkedIn. Stay tuned for part 2, where we’ll show you how to recommend someone else on LinkedIn.
You must first visit the Profile of the person you’d like a Recommendation from. On their Profile, you will click on “More”:
In the drop down menu, you’ll see a selection to “Request a Recommendation.”
From here, LinkedIn will walk you through the process. You’ll fill out a personalized request including your relationship to the person and what position you were in at the time that you began work with him or her:
It’s important to note that you can only request Recommendations from 1st level Connections.
Next, you will create a personalized note to complete your request. Here is an example that may be helpful:
Hi, [name],
This type of message establishes a connection and also gives them an additional option if they don’t have time to write a Recommendation, but are still interested in recommending you.
Please keep an eye out for our next in:form post on How to Recommend Someone on LinkedIn.