When and Why to Share Linkedin Profiles

LinkedIn is the world's most popular networking and professional development community. It's a powerhouse when it comes to finding a new business collaborator, building a list of potential business hires, or even researching the business or education background of the marketing person you are interviewing. This article will teach you how to share LinkedIn profiles – your own and someone else's.

LinkedIn makes it easy to quickly review the professional background and accomplishments of someone by viewing their profile. You can quickly see the organizations they've worked with, the categories of things they are interested in, and more. Users will even use LinkedIn to display their personalities – like a professional version of Instagram!

Often, you are working on recruiting or researching with someone else. In these cases it is important to share LinkedIn profiles with your collaborators in order to get their thoughts on a person's background. Sending a LinkedIn profile is often easier than emailing a resume, CV, or screenshot of someone's bio.

Or, perhaps you'd like to share your own LinkedIn profile in order to display and communicate your own professional background for self-promotion. You might want to share LinkedIn data in a job application, in your email signature, in an email, and more. There are many categories of times when you'd want to share LinkedIn data!

Thankfully, it's easy to directly share LinkedIn profiles and connections to send someone's profile – or your own – to a friend, colleague, and beyond.

How to Share Linkedin Profiles – Share Your Own

There are many reasons you might want to send your own LinkedIn profile – to show your friends your new promotion via a messaging platform like WhatsApp, link your LinkedIn on your resume, or even put your LinkedIn Profile in your business or personal email signature. It's not hard to share LinkedIn profiles, and there is a simple trick you can use to make yours stand out.

1. Start by customizing your profile URL. On the LinkedIn platform, you can create a unique link that is easy to recognize and unique. This will make it much easier and quicker for people to find and click on your profile. It also makes you appear more professional. First, navigate to your LinkedIn profile and click "Public profile & URL" Click this button, and edit your URL to be something simple and memorable, like your full name. Creating a custom link may seem like a simple transformation, but it really can help with your first impression.
2. Next, copy your profile URL in your address bar and post it or send it wherever you wanted to share LinkedIn information. It's that easy – no LinkedIn share URL generator needed!
3. If you'd like to share the profile in a LinkedIn message, you can select the "More" dropdown menu and choose "Send Profile in Message"

Here is a screenshot of how to share LinkedIn profiles by copying a URL in the address bar:

How to Share Linkedin Profiles – Share Someone Else's

The ability to share Linkedin profiles of both connections and non connections is one of the most useful aspects of the app. It's a real advantage! Whether you want to have a coworker review the education background of an interviewee, or you want to run the business background of a potential collaborator by your team, you will often find yourself wanting to share LinkedIn profiles of other people.

Thankfully you don't need to send a screenshot or type of critical points of their profile yourself! It's easy to share LinkedIn profiles of other people directly.

1. Navigate to the LinkedIn profile of the person you would like to share.
2. Next, copy your profile URL in your address bar and post it or send it wherever you wanted to share LinkedIn information. It's that easy – no LinkedIn share URL generator needed!
3. If you'd like to share the profile in a LinkedIn message, you can select the "More" dropdown menu and choose "Send Profile in Message"

Here is a screenshot of how to share LinkedIn profiles in messages:

Where to Share LinkedIn Profiles - Categories and Occasions of Use

It's common for people to share LinkedIn profiles on their social media accounts like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. You can also include it in your email signature and on your resume or CV. This way, anyone who comes across it can click through and view your profile easily. This boosts your credibility when you meet someone new, prepare to interview at a business, or seek out a critical new collaboration.

However you plan to share LinkedIn information, make sure your profile is complete and up-to-date. Having a profile that is full of information about your work and education and looks professional will increase the chances of people engaging with you.

Share LinkedIn Profiles, Profiles from Email Contacts, and More

Sharing LinkedIn profiles is really useful, but it's not perfect. You can't share your notes on a connection, and you can't share their contact info either.

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