We all know how important skills are. Whether it’s about seeking a job or switching to a different level, skills help you to stand out amongst other candidates. Talking about Linkedin, in recent research, the majority of the professionals expressed that skills are more important than a college education and 76% wished that managers should hire based on skills and not qualifications.

What LinkedIn has announced?

However, the job orientated social platform “LinkedIn” has announced its new feature “Skill assessment” to highlight an individual’s skills set.  LinkedIn users can now attempt a short quiz to verify their certain skills and according to the officials, around 30% of the users are likely to get hired after accomplishing LinkedIn skills assessment.

How it will help professionals?

This assessment will give users a chance to get hired with qualifying skills and help candidates to give their best efforts to recruiters and employers. “Each Skill Assessment, whether it’s Adobe Photoshop to showcase your design skills or Java to land a developer role, is constructed through a rigorous content creation and review process in partnership with LinkedIn Learning industry and subject matter experts,” said John Jersin, LinkedIn’s vice president of product management.

Briefing the Quiz topics

LinkedIn is planning to expand their skills assessment to represent more professionalism and unlock more opportunities. Yet, presently the LinkedIn quiz assessment includes 33 skill sets mentioned below.

1. Adobe Acrobat
2. Angular
3. AWS
4. Bash
5. C
6. C#
7. C++
8. CSS
9. GIT
10. Hadoop
11. HTML
12. Java
13. JavaScript
14. jQuery
15. JSON
16. Maven
17. MongoDB
18. MS Excel
19. MS PowerPoint
20. MS Project
21. MS SharePoint
22. MS Visio
23. js
24. Objective-C
25. PHP
26. Python
27. QuickBooks
28. Ruby
29. Ruby on Rails
30. Scala
31. Swift
32. WordPress
33. XML

How to take the quiz?

The new feature isn’t available to all the members of LinkedIn but soon it will be available to every user. The company has recommended using a laptop over mobile phones for better comfort. For taking up the quiz, you have to follow the steps mentioned below:

• You simply have to look at the profile section on your LinkedIn.

• Then you have to scroll down to your skills section and you will find “take quiz” menu.

• The test includes 15-20 multiple choice questions and you have to attempt answers in a limited period.

• The results will remain private unless you share it.

• Users scoring 70% and more than it will be able to add “a verified skill” badge to their profiles.

Points to be Remember

• You are only allowed to perform these assessments for the skills you’ve added to your profile

• Skill Assessments are created by LinkedIn Learning community members who have experience generating exam content.

• Your percentile will be determined by comparing scores against a benchmark the company created.

• The scoring is done by “computer-based methodology called adaptive testing.”

To all the professionals, we hope this newly additional LinkedIn feature will help you to gain lots of knowledge and certified badges to your profile. We wish you all the good luck for the upcoming phenomenal success of your skills and professionalism.

And that’s all for the blog.

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