Starting today, we bring you the ability to reorder the sections on your LinkedIn profile via drag-and-drop. This enhancement, one of the most highly-requested profile features from our users, gives you the ability to highlight the skills, expertise, and/or experiences that make you stand out.
Your profile is an important part of your online professional identity. At LinkedIn we’d like to provide you with all the tools you need to build and maintain a profile that can showcase your unique professional value. Now you’re in complete control over your professional brand. Given below is a quick demo of how it works:
Want to showcase your work experience or education above everything else? Do you want testimonials from your references to be the first thing people see when they find your profile? Have you synced your WordPress blog with your profile or built a great presentation with SlideShare that you want to feature? Now your LinkedIn profile offers the flexibility you need to put your best foot forward.
Customizing your profile’s section ordering is quick and easy. You will notice that the headers of each of the sections on your “Edit Profile” page now have handles that can be dragged. To reorder a section, all you need to do is click and drag one of these section headers up or down the body of your profile. When you release the mouse, the section will drop into place where you dragged it, and your adjustment will take effect immediately.
The ability to reorder the sections on your profile is just the first of a huge number of enhancements that are coming to your LinkedIn profile in the upcoming months. And, as always, we’d love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions about how LinkedIn can help you to represent, manage, and share your professional identity.
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It worked perfectly as intended, thanks! Nice to see LinkedIn gaining even more flexibility (to compete with FB/TW?) as a user.
Funny how I tried it yesterday and it felt natural. Never realized it was a just-in feature
Great, I just moved the applications section down to the bottom of my profile.
The only possible downside I can see to this change would be that it may make it a little bit more difficult for recruiters to look for relevant information on a person’s profile if the profile is rearranged in a non-standard manner. I am not sure about that though as I am not a recruiter. Having said that I like the ability to customize my profile, so please keep up the good work.
One thing I wish you guys would do is allow “Questions & Answers Expertise” to be visible on your public profile, even if the answers aren’t visible unless someone logs in. It would help increase the quantity and quality of answers on Linkedin which would make the network even better.
The other wish would be that you allow a choice of more business style avatars for those who choose not to place a photo on their profile. This hadn’t been a concern of mine until I used the Linkedin for iphone app, and well with just one generic face on that app, it made the app feel a little stale.
It would also be nice if you had a similar feature to Gmail, where if a contact does not have a photo displayed you can add one for your own personal use, that is only visible to you.
Nice addition, helps to make the profile flow more naturally.
It would be great if users could pull recommendations for a specific job and list them as a group, or individually, immediately under the job description.
Thanks for continually improving the site.
Does this also include the ability to rearrange within an section? For example, I do something full time and part time – I want my full time work to appear first even though my part time work started after my full time job.
Very cool and great works! It would be great to be able to re-order third-party applications (like Slideshare on Linkedin) as separate widgets as well, as opposed to moving all third-party applications in one block.
Great new feature. It would be nice to be able to split out groups from additional information and be able to move the information on your websites and twitter separately.
I agree with Lisa F’s comment. I use LI for both business and charity networking. It would be nice if we had the ability to re-order within a section. This way I could keep my day job experience separate from my non-profit work.
Very cool – thanks for this! I wholeheartedly agree with Andrew Boe’s suggestion to have the ability to arrange recommendations for a specific job under that job.
Also, I would like to be able to move applications to the right sidebar to make more room in the main part of the profile for my work experience.
Love the flexibility – allows you to do a better job of branding yourself on LinkedIn – Very COOL! Keep up the great work, Best regards TimBaileyGR
Is there any way of changing the order of the applications?
Cheers.
Anyone know when the LinkedIn social connector for Outlook 2010 (beta) will become available?
Thanks,
Tim.
Great new feature! Thank you for continuing to improve this valuable tool.
Perfect, this works great THX!
I wonder if I would be able to re-order my educational institutions. I have just started an MBA programme, and I noticed that on adding this new course on the education section of my profile, it actually came at the bottom of the list of my other degrees. Is there a way I can bring it to the top – as all the others are in their right position? Or do I have to delete all of them and re-start entering them again?
Thank you
@adomohammed- There currently isn’t a way to reorder your educational listings at this time, but it is definitely something that we have discussed and we’ll make sure you feedback gets passed along to the right people. Thanks.
-Derek
I not so bothered about reordering my profile – but I would love to be able to reorder and choose the size of the sections on my Network Updates & Group Updates
Great new feature! Thanks
7.5/10
Great improvement!
It would be great also to put, for example, my education right after one or several work experiences.
In my case, I would provide info about my education, right after my two current jobs.
Thanks
I love this tip! I find it very valuable to showcase certain areas of my profile that are important to my career search!
Great idea! How about two more ideas!
1 – In the UK post codes don’t always relate to exactly where we work – the UK has a strange system. SO my postcode is Walsall, but I’m actually sitting in the cathedral city of Lichfield! Could we have a ‘city’ option instead?
2 – Several of us have quite a few roles. I have a day job and I’m also a trustee for a couple of organisations. The trustee roles whilst newer, should be lower in priority on my profile. As I’ve added a few, my day job is now the last item on the current job role. It would be great to be able to prioritise the roles.
Nice, this is so seemless.
keep up the excellent work!
Regards
Yoray Narainpersad
Thank you this is of great help
I decided to add a previous position that I had initially omitted. By doing so, it is in the wrong section of my experience. Oddly enough, it did not go to the top or bottom, it went to the middle; completely out of any kind of order. Is there a way to fix this without deleting all of my professional experience and retyping it all?
This is cool. Rearrange the way I like it and freedom to highlight what I think is more important than the others.
I just joined LinkedIn and found thisvideo very helpful.
Thanks for this improvement, however, as others have noted above, it would be extremely helpful if one could re-order their current “work” within the Experience section.
Exactly as described by others, I would like to list my current work ahead of my current volunteer efforts.
My understanding is that the only way to achieve this now is through changing the start dates, which undermines the basic premise of LinkedIn: That people are being honest in the information they present.
Like others – I want the opportunity to reorder my day job with my volunteer job. If you see my public profile – you will see my 4 hr a week volunteer work trumps my business based on start dates. I’ve never had a good place for volunteer roles among my profile.
Keep up good work.
Hi Aaron!
Sorry for my silly question, but I’m quite new at LinkedIn: I tried to modify the visibility of my public profile, keeping it more private, but it hasn’t changed at all. It keeps on being totally public, although it tells me it accepted the changes. Is it a matter of time or do I need to do something else?
Thanks in advance.
I would also like to see a reorder for the applications. As someone who gives a lot of presentations each month, I would like that to come before books or other things.
Wendy Soucie
xeesm.com/wendysoucie
Opps – here’s the right link…I would also like to see a reorder for the applications. As someone who gives a lot of presentations each month, I would like that to come before books or other things.
Wendy Soucie
xeesm.com/wendysoucie
I would also like to reorder within sections and place more relevant job descriptions ahead of less relevant regardless of chronological order.
Can we do this?
Does LinkedIn have a way of removing a connection or of blocking a connection from seeing certian things on my account?
@Krista- We currently don’t have a way to change your privacy settings for each specific person your connected to but you do have the ability to remove the connection if you want. The following FAQ in our Customer Service Center should give you a good explanation of how to do it.
http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linkedin.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=49
Great,
now for your next trick can you make it so that we can re-arrange the order of items within a blog.
EG I would prefer my bloglink came before my events.
Hi – did you ever add the ability to rearrange information WITHIN sections? That would be extremely valuable. Thanks.
Dear Bronzan,
Thanks for sharing this improved feature of LinkedIn!!!
I certainly have a few credentials that I could include. Though some of the gurus believe that potential clients are more interested in HOW I can help them as a relationship coach and couples counselor than my credentials.
Thanks again….
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I, too, found it frustrating that I couldn’t change the order of items within the Applications section. But I discovered a workaround that at least worked for me:
1. Remove each application from your profile (this won’t remove the app altogether, just from your profile page)
2. Using the main navigation bar, add your applications in the order you’d like them to appear. Go to More > Get More Applications…
3. Click on the application you’d like (such as Reading List, WordPress, etc.)
4. On the right side, check the box “Display on my profile”
5. Check your profile to ensure the app was added
6. Repeat 2-5 for other applications, in the order you’d like them added
I am currently working full-time and have just been accepted for a Master’s degree programme. This course won’t start until September 2012, but it thought it would be nice to advertise about it anyway. However, there seems to be no way to add this prospective degree in the “Education” section.
Can anyone please give me some pointers on this one?
Many thanks.
I want to reorder the applications within the application section on my profile. How do I do that?
I would like to add to the growing chorus of people asking for the ability to re-order items WITHIN a section, such as publications. I want the most recent to appear at the top, yet when I update with new publications, they go to the bottom, and there’s no way to drag them to the top.
Why don’t I have grab handles? I can’t reorder my sections.
Many thanks; from each one of us.
If one has multiple elements with a section – like several current activities, it would be really useful to be able to sequence them in order of importance rather than in order of date. Often, more important activities are not the most recent.