LinkedIn Verification now allows you to verify your work and account

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In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, professional social media platform LinkedIn today announced a number of new verification features that allow users to authenticate aspects of their identity and work histories. Basically, users will now have a few different options for verifying their identity and current jobs on LinkedIn. This way, if someone tries to create a LinkedIn impersonator account, there can be clear differences between the impersonator account and the verified profile.

LinkedIn facilitates verification in three ways, all of which are free for individual users. The more discreet option launched today is to verify your current employer by receiving a security code on your work email and entering it into LinkedIn. The social media platform recently piloted this work email verification feature with a small group of companies.

The second option is to verify your identity on LinkedIn through the Clear airport security service. The authentication company will take your U.S. phone number and government-issued ID and use the information to verify your name. You need to consider whether you want to trust a third party like Clear with your personal data, but the option may be especially appealing if you already use the company for travel verification and they have your data on file anyway.

The third verification feature allows users to confirm their name and current employer using credentials with Microsoft Sign in Verified ID, a workplace identification platform launched by Microsoft last year. This option will have a slower rollout and will be available at the end of the month to employees of a few dozen pilot companies that are already enrolled in Entra.

Once you add one of these verifications to your LinkedIn account, a new verification field will appear on your profile with the details.

Through all of these free new features, we’re helping give you the confidence that the people you connect with and the content you encounter is trustworthy and authentic, Oscar Rodriguez, vice president of product management at LinkedIn, wrote in a blog post today.

After noting in June 2022 that the company had seen an increase in fraudulent activity on its platform and across the web, LinkedIn announced efforts in October to detect and remove more fake accounts, expand verification, and generally increase authenticity for its more than 900 million users . Today’s announcements greatly expand the scope and reach of those verification initiatives.

Having the ability to verify components of your identity and employment won’t stop attackers from spawning fake characters and even fake companies to “verify” bogus jobs. But if job verification is widely adopted on LinkedIn, it will make it harder for bad actors to impersonate legitimate accounts and create compelling fake personas.

By simply seeking verification, members and organizations can be more confident that the people they work with are genuine and that the job affiliations on their profiles are accurate,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post published today.

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