So, the University of LinkedIn just announced a new series of educational partnerships with IBM, Meta, Oracle, and more which aim to provide official certifications and recognitions for skills that you can then display on your LinkedIn profile. As LinkedIn explains:
“Over the last few years, we have offered learners a variety of ways to prove their skills, including earning academic credit toward a degree; continuing education units to maintain certain professional licenses; and certification preparation programs to demonstrate a high level of skill in a certain industry. Today, we’re further expanding access to certifications by partnering with notable third-party providers including IBM, Meta, and Oracle, to help learners discover certification preparation content directly from the source.”
New Certs
The process essentially provides dedicated courses from these providers within LinkedIn Learning, enabling more specialized certifications facilitated by the companies themselves. The courses offered aren’t too far off from those offered by each company’s dedicated education tools, such as Meta’s ‘Blueprint’ education platform. But now, as these courses are integrated into LinkedIn’s own educational resources, that provide more direct integration to showcase your knowledge across the professional social network.
This has become a bigger consideration in recent years. True enough, LinkedIn says that the number of members who’ve added certifications to their profile has increased 44% over the last two years. As more people look to change jobs, with LinkedIn becoming a more central resource in providing career insights, it’s now more important than ever to ensure that your LinkedIn profile reflects your career experience and skills. These new certification courses will provide new direct proof elements to underline your professional capacity.
To add, LinkedIn’s also throwing in another way for recruiters to sort candidates based on their skills, which could become an important consideration for job seekers. Furthermore, LinkedIn also mentions that it will soon facilitate even more ways for users to showcase their skills within their LinkedIn profiles.
The Wrap
To put it simply, we’ll all soon have more options to complete certification courses within LinkedIn Learning, providing more capacity to add these elements to our professional profiles, potentially enhancing future prospects. This is a handy and relatively valuable integration, and with most of these certifications already available, having them in one central space could help better facilitate extended learning, while also making LinkedIn a more practical platform to showcase your skills.
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