You can leverage the Featured section on your LinkedIn profile to showcase the best samples of your work, as evidence of your skills and experience. Check out some FAQs to learn more about the Featured section.
The Featured section is a new area on your LinkedIn profile where you can showcase work samples that you’re most proud of. For example, you can feature posts that you’ve authored, articles you’ve published on LinkedIn, and even external media like images, documents and links.
Any media you may have previously had in your About section has been moved to the Featured section. This allows you to showcase your work to people who view your profile in a more prominent way.
By using the Featured section, you can pick and choose the content you’re most proud of and curate what other members will see.
In contrast, the Activity section highlights all your activity for the past 45 days. This includes your articles, posts, comments, and likes on other LinkedIn posts. Your Activity section is located just below the Featured section on your profile.
You can feature any posts you’ve authored, articles you’ve published on LinkedIn, as well as external media, documents and links. We encourage you to showcase content that you’re proud of and that you feel is representative of your professional identity. Learn how you can feature samples of your work on your LinkedIn profile.
You can include as many samples of your work as you want in your Featured section, and you can manage what you’d like to feature by adding and removing content at any time.
If you don’t have any content to feature, your Featured section will be hidden from people who view your profile.
We abide by the visibility settings that you’ve set on your profile. For example, if you specify that the visibility of your posts is limited to your connections only, then only your connections will be able to see the content in your Featured section. Learn more about what people can see on your profile.
The content included in your Featured section will not be discoverable through search.
No, in order to view content in the Featured section of someone’s LinkedIn profile, the viewer must have a LinkedIn account and must be logged in to LinkedIn.
By default, newly featured content will show up first in your Featured section. However, you can always manage how your content is displayed by reordering it.
If you’d like to feature content as you’re posting it on your feed, you’ll have to click the
There is currently no way to automatically pin content that you’ve uploaded to your Featured section.
Depending on the type of content you’ve featured, you can decide whether to:
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Remove from Featured – to unpin the content from the Featured section, but not delete the content. You’ll still be able to find the unpinned content in your Activity section.
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Delete – to permanently delete the content from the Featured section (and your LinkedIn profile).
No. The Featured section is currently only available on individual LinkedIn profiles.
However, if you use your individual LinkedIn profile to represent your company, you can use the Featured section to highlight your work content. Companies can also leverage LinkedIn Pages to publish and share content about the organization’s activities, job opportunities, and culture.