LinkedIn announced their new feature, which will allow its users to get a free profile verification badge on their profile at their workplace. It will boost and make it easier for people to identify employment without a price tag like other platforms charging for verification. This new verification badge has a green and blue checkmark labelled as “Verified Workplace” and it will appear next to your profile and also appear on the search results of LinkedIn.
Unlike other platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, asking users to pay for a verification badge, Microsoft made the verification badge for free to increase trust with the right verification work to ensure benefits like increasing trust, reducing fraud, attracting more users to join and retain users, and improving search results.
Companies have been looking for more opportunities, especially after the pandemic, as companies are moving more towards organization move to the cloud. Often use LinkedIn primarily, but it’s been difficult to verify the authenticity of the individuals.
Microsoft LinkedIn Free Verification will create a more trustworthy and reliable experience.
Currently, it’s only limited to the United States and Canada over more than 4,000 companies among which LinkedIn plans to start rolling out by the end of April for 2 million LinkedIn users. Currently, there are around 50 million members globally, and it will roll out to other users over time. Members can use the free profile verification by enabling it by heading over to their Profile tab and then choosing the Verification section.
This requires you to submit your Company’s Email address along with Government-issued ID. After LinkedIn verifies you, users will receive confirmation, and then the verification badge will be added to the profile.
Microsoft Entra is not only used to verify the employee ID, but it is also used to check the person’s loan application, reward program, and much more. As it gives companies to check the background, it also avoids rigorous security checks when you first join the company.
How does LinkedIn Verification work?
There are several benefits of LinkedIn Profile verification as it will build more trust, more visibility in search results, stand among the competition, and it also gives a credibility boost among others. Microsoft uses CLEAR, which uses a secure identity platform by verifying with a government-issued ID and a mobile number. Microsoft Entra, which is a cloud-based identity and access management (IMA) platform, allows organizations to issue digital workplace IDs to their employees, and lastly, the Work Email verification, which is often provided by the companies.
Microsoft Entry Verified ID is a decentralized identity system that allows organizations to issue cryptographically signal digital IDs to their users to provide their identity along with several background checks, and Microsoft is also working to push to even more places. This will ensure that what people have been claiming is genuine where they have been working. This will make LinkedIn a more trusted platform for both users and businesses.
By verifying the skills across multiple companies and the quality that HR brings to companies, they can start onboarding their employees much faster, which also helps them save time and money on background checks and training. That’s not all, effective hiring will also allow for reliable and scalable solutions for a variety of purposes.
A lot of professionals use LinkedIn to build their network, with more than 830 million making LinkedIn the world’s largest professional networking platform. It made it easier for users to find and connect with the person who is useful to build their career. However, LinkedIn doesn’t have any plans to bring a LinkedIn verification badge next to your name through. Companies take various precautions regarding whether or not to offer a badge, and it’s likely the green and blue check will only come with a verification forum in the future.
