From the course: Finding a Job on LinkedIn

Skill assessments - LinkedIn Tutorial

From the course: Finding a Job on LinkedIn

Skill assessments

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- [Narrator] A newer feature on LinkedIn is skill assessments. These allow you to take skills to the next level by actually proving that you're proficient within a scale. Now let's take a look at how you can access these. First of all, I can scroll down to the skill section and from here, click on take scale quiz but I can always access this up at the top from the jobs tab, and then selecting skill assessments. This brings up a list of the ones that are available. Now, there are a lot of them. I'll click over here on all and you can see that we have Adobe Acrobat, illustrator, InDesign, after effects, Autodesk, C plus plus there are so many of them here now in these, like it says at the top, they all include 15 multiple choice questions. And if you score in the top 30% you earn a skill badge for that particular skill. So for example, if I were to scroll down here and select after effects, I get this information about the assessment. It tells me what it's about. It tells me how many questions, how long I have per question, as well as how I can earn a badge. Down below it gives some good advice. It says here that you must complete this assessment in one session. Make sure your Internet's reliable because you can't shut it off and reenter it. Now, if you don't earn a badge this time you can retake it one more time. Also, they won't show results to anyone without your permission. So if you want this, just to test yourself, you can do that. If you want to share your results you can do that. In this case, I'm going to go down to the bottom where it says practice and click on this. Just to take a look at what these look like. When I do that, it says you're about to start. I'll click next. And here it says, which view is showing here. Is that the graph editor, composition, mini flow chart. And I don't, I don't even know after effects. I'm not going to be good at doing this assessment in this case. Now, if I were to leave it, that would be a bad thing because that would be my one opportunity. However, this was just practice. So it didn't really matter. So I recommend that you take a look at these skill assessments and see if there are any skills in there that you can take the quiz on and earn that badge.

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