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Adding video to your LinkedIn profile

Good news! LinkedIn is finally getting on board the Video Train with the launch of the LinkedIn Professional Portfolio.

LinkedIn now lets you upload images, videos, presentations and documents to your profile to add a nice visual to the otherwise text heavy platform. You can add video and images to the summary, experience and education sections of your profile.

How to add video to your LinkedIn profile: video

Here’s a quick video on how to add video to your LinkedIn profile.

How to Add Images and Video to Your LinkedIn profile: step by step

To add images, documents, presentations or video to your LinkedIn profile, click “Profile” from the menu at the top, then choose “Edit Profile.”

 

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Upload or embed your video

Under each of the entries in your Summary, Experience and Education sections is a new icon—a square with a (+) symbol. Click this button to upload a file or add a link to the video or image you’d like to share.

 

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Adding links

If you want to add a link, type or paste the link to your content into the “Add a link” field.

 

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The link can be simply a copied and pasted link from Youtube:

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Titles and descriptions

To edit the title and description, move your cursor over Profile at the top of your homepage and select Edit Profile.

Scroll to the media sample you’d like to edit and click the pencil icon in the lower-right corner. Screen Shot 2015-01-30 at 2.45.41 pm Click inside the Title and Description fields to edit the text, then click Save. You can also move media samples from one section to another.

Do this by clicking the drop-down menu under “Move this media to” and choose the section of your profile you’d like to move it to.

Boom!

Click ‘add to profile’ and you’ll see your video appear in your profile.

To rearrange items within the same section of your profile, click and drag them to the spot you want. Any questions? Get in touch!