Verifications on your LinkedIn profile

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Add a verification badge to your profile to signal authenticity and build trust, giving others more confidence to connect with you. Verified members see 60% more profile views on average.

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Verified information on your profile helps you signal authenticity and build trust through a verification badge, giving others more confidence to connect and interact with you. Our data shows that verified members naturally see 60% more profile views and 50% more engagement on average.

Currently, you can verify your:

Identity
Workplace
Educational institution

Verification badge

A verification badge is an icon that appears next to your name on your LinkedIn profile page.

Your verification badge helps you signal authenticity and build trust, giving others more confidence to connect with you. If a user clicks on your verification badge, they can learn more about your active verifications.

You can view verification badges on other profiles when you are logged in to LinkedIn, and members who are logged in to LinkedIn can view your verification badge. Verification badges may also appear on job posts or LinkedIn Company Pages, signaling that the job and/or page is authentic. Learn more about badges for jobs and Pages.

Currently, LinkedIn supports several forms of verification. Each form of verification has its own eligibility and availability criteria, which you can learn more about below.

You can verify your profile information at any time.

Identity verification

An identity verification means that a member’s government-issued ID was verified by one of LinkedIn’s verification partners. Currently, identity verification is limited to select geographies. We may expand identity verification globally and add more verification partners in the future.

In the U.S., Canada, and Mexico:

Identity verification is performed by CLEAR, a third-party identity verification service. It's available for those with a valid government-issued ID and a personal phone number registered in either the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. To learn more about how this verification works and the steps to verify, check out Identity verification via CLEAR. A free CLEAR account will be created for you during the process if you don’t have one already. This is separate from the paid CLEAR Plus membership for airport security access. If you already have a CLEAR account, you can continue the verification using your CLEAR identity.

In India:

Identity verification is available to members with DigiLocker credentials that meet certain other requirements.

In many additional countries:

Identity verification is performed by Persona, a third-party identity verification service. It’s available for those with a valid NFC-enabled passport. To learn more about the availability, how this verification works, and the steps to verify, check out Identity verification via Persona.

LinkedIn members have the option to verify their identity by uploading a government ID and/or taking a live selfie using services provided by the above trusted partners. These trusted partners (and their authorized processors) have sole access to such data and it is deleted according to the applicable trusted partner’s privacy policy. LinkedIn will store the photo from your government-issued ID for identity verification purposes. No biometric data associated with your ID is collected or used.

Workplace verification

A workplace verification means that a member has confirmed their association with the specific company using their work email, Microsoft Entra Verified ID, a LinkedIn Learning license provided by their company, or an active LinkedIn Recruiter license provided by their company.

Via work email:

You can verify your workplace by providing your current company email address and confirming it through a code sent to that email. Currently, this method of verification is eligible to limited companies. To learn more about how this verification works and the steps to verify, check out Workplace verification using your work email.

Via Microsoft Entra Verified ID:

If your company uses Microsoft Entra Verified ID and has taken specific steps to enable workplace verification, you’ll be able to verify and display a verification on your LinkedIn profile. To learn more about how this verification works and the steps to verify, check out Workplace verification via Microsoft Entra Verified ID.

Via LinkedIn Learning license:

If your company has provided you with a LinkedIn Learning license and has been included in workplace verification, you can display a workplace verification on your LinkedIn profile. To learn more about how this verification works and the steps to verify, check out Workplace verification via LinkedIn Learning.

Via active LinkedIn Recruiter license:

At this time, workplace verification is not available to all companies. However, if your company provides its employees with the LinkedIn Recruiter corporate subscription product, and you are assigned a Recruiter User role, Recruiter Admin role or a custom role featuring a Hiring Project Creator license with Recruiter Search permissions, you may be able to add and display a Verified Recruiter label workplace verification on your LinkedIn profile. To learn more about how this verification works and the steps to verify, check out workplace verification with a LinkedIn Recruiter license.

Educational institution verification with a LinkedIn Learning License

An education verification means the individual's association with an educational institution has been verified using a supported LinkedIn Learning license provided by that institution. If your educational institution has provided you with a LinkedIn Learning license and has been included in educational institution verification, you can display a verification on your LinkedIn profile. To learn more about how this verification works and the steps to verify, check out Educational institution verification via LinkedIn Learning.

Verification details

Verifications are optional and are not required to complete your profile. Verifications and adding a verification to your profile is available with no additional cost. You can remove verifications from your profile at any time.
A verification badge indicates your identity, workplace, or educational institution is confirmed and will be visible on your profile when you complete the verification process. Users can click on the verification badge to learn more about your active verifications.
The information used for verification (i.e. the email address, information on your ID card, or the workplace credential) is only used to verify specific information and will not be visible to anyone.
The issuing country of your ID may be visible on your profile. You can remove verifications anytime in settings. Learn more about our practices in our Privacy Policy.
The location and the placement of the badge may change as the feature evolves.
A verification may be removed if your organization changes the approved email domains for workplace verification with work email. If you change your name, you may have to re-verify to keep your verification visible on your profile. When you verify your identity, workplace, or educational institution, the name you use must match the name on your LinkedIn profile.

Your verification may be shown on other features on the LinkedIn platform or on certain third-party partners for use and display outside of LinkedIn. For example, if you’re a customer with access to Job Slots and you actively post jobs, your verifications may show up on the jobs you post. These verifications are meant to help you build trust with job seekers and potential candidates.

We continue to expand eligibility and availability, and new types of verifications may become available in the future.

You can verify your profile information at any time.