→ Learn how to request a Recommendation on LinkedIn [2018]

Pasos para solicitar recomendaciones en LinkedIn

Would you like to get job recommendations on LinkedIn? Guiding us from the official LinkedIn help page, we have prepared for you a small guideline to manage recommendations on this social network.

There are two ways to manage recommendations on LinkedIn: From your profile and from your contact's profile.

Below we explain the steps you must follow in each form.

Request a recommendation from your LinkedIn profile

• Log into your LinkedIn account
• Click on> Me
• Click on> View profile
• Click on> Add section (Blue box)
• Select> Additional Information
• Click on the (+) symbol, located next to> Request a recommendation
• A window will appear with the following message: "Who do you want to ask me to recommend?"
• Fill in the fields: Relationship and position at this time
• Click on> Next
• Write a personalized message and click> send

Request a recommendation from the profile of one of your LinkedIn contacts

You can only ask your 1st level contacts for recommendations.

• In the search engine bar, type and select the contact's profile
• Click on> More ...> Request a recommendation
• Answer the relationship and title questions
• Write your personalized message
• Tap> Send

Recommendations on LinkedIn are positive comments made by your clients or the company where you worked, so that when another employer wants to hire you, they have much more confidence in you and increase your chances of obtaining the job.

What are LinkedIn recommendations for?

Did you know Recommendations are very important because they can improve your profile on LinkedIn?

Recommendations on LinkedIn are very important because they provide feedback from important people about the quality of your work. And this is undoubtedly a plus for your profile, since it is not the same to hire a professional about whom no one has said anything, than to hire one who has good comments and is also recommended by other companies after seeing the quality in his work.

Undoubtedly, the employer or person in charge of Human Resources, will prefer to hire the second professional.

LinkedIn recommendation examples

If you still don't understand very well what LinkedIn recommendations are, we leave you these examples:

How to see recommendations on LinkedIn?

To see a professional's recommendations on LinkedIn:

• Login to your profile
• Scroll to the> Recommendations section
• Click on> Received
• The list of recommendations that professional received will be displayed

To see your own recommendations:

• Login to your LinkedIn profile
• Scroll down to the> Recommendations part
• You will see your list of your recommendations received and sent

How to write a message to request a recommendation on LinkedIn?

When you want to ask for a recommendation, LinkedIn shows you an automatic message, which says: Hello X, could you recommend me? However, we advise you to personalize your own message in such a way that you can appear more professional.

Example of a message to ask for recommendations on LinkedIn:

Good afternoon X, I am very pleased to work or have worked in your company, it is an honor for me to contribute or have contributed my knowledge and skills in the development of your brand. I would be happy if you could write a recommendation of yours on my profile, where you honestly express how you felt when hiring me, thank you very much, I look forward to your response

How to write recommendations on LinkedIn?

You can to accept  if a contact has asked you for a recommendation.

If they haven't asked you, but want to recommend them anyway, do the following:

• Enter the profile of that contact
• Click on> More ...> Recommend to
• Select the options they ask you
• Write your recommendation message
• Click> send

It is important that you be very sincere when recommending a person.

How to hide recommendations on LinkedIn?

To hide a recommendation you have received:

• Click> Me> View profile
• Enter the recommendations section
• Click on> the edit icon
• Go to> recommendations received
• Find the recommendation you want to hide
• Select the> Hide option
• Click> Save

To hide a recommendation you submitted:

• Click> Me> View profile
• Enter the recommendations section
• Click on> the edit icon
• Go to the> sent recommendations window
• Find the recommendation you want to hide
• Click> visible to
• Selection> Only you