What You Need to Know About LinkedIn Skill Assessments
During a job search, wouldn’t it be great to have a way to prove your proficiency in a specific skill to hiring managers?
Well, now there is. On September 17, LinkedIn launched its new Skill Assessments feature. These are online assessments you can take to demonstrate your proficiency in an area such as MS Excel or jQuery. All assessments have been designed by subject matter and LinkedIn Learning experts, and they’re based on an in-depth content creation and review process. Moreover, these assessments seem to be well received: Research shows that job seekers who’ve completed LinkedIn Skill Assessments are approximately 30 percent more likely to get hired than those who haven’t.
Interested? Here’s what you need to know.
How LinkedIn Skill Assessments work
To take an assessment, all you have to do is navigate to the skills section of your profile and select the relevant Skill Assessment. Note that the test is timed. If you have a disability, you can activate the accessibility for the Skill Assessment feature. This will allow you additional time to complete each question.
Your score is private by default, meaning that you can control the visibility of the results. If you score in the 70th percentile or higher, you’ll pass the assessment and have the option of displaying a “verified skill” badge on your profile. If you don’t pass, you can take the assessment again once you’ve brushed up your skills. However, keep in mind that you can only take each assessment once per three months.
When you’ve completed an assessment, LinkedIn provides you with an outline of your results. In addition, for a limited time, it offers relevant LinkedIn Learning courses for free so you can improve further. You’ll also receive relevant job recommendations.
According to Andrew Martins in his Business News Daily article “LinkedIn Users Can Now Showcase Skill Assessments,” the following assessments are currently available:
Adobe Acrobat, Angular, AWS, Bash, C, C#, C++, CSS, GIT, Hadoop, HTML, Java, Javascript, jQuery, JSON, Maven, MongoDB, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, Node.js, Objective-C, PHP, Python, QuickBooks, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scala, Swift, WordPress, and XML. Experts believe that there are also more, non-technical assessments in the making.
A good way to showcase your skills
LinkedIn Skill Assessments offer a brilliant way for you to showcase your abilities to potential employers while at the same time giving you the opportunity to hone your skills even further. So, take advantage of what’s offered — and use it to maximize your employability!
Sources:
https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/15288-linkedin-skill-assessments.html