How to Recommend a Service Provider through LinkedIn

The success of the LinkedIn database depends on sharing your experiences and recommending the expertise of somebody you’ve hired or worked with before. When you enter that recommendation, you want to provide a concise, factual testimonial that conveys your recommendation in a way that will make sense to the reader and validate the provider’s abilities.

To post a recommendation, just follow these steps.

Open the Service Providers Page.

Click the drop-down arrow next to Companies from the top navigation bar, and then click the Service Providers link.

Click the Make a Recommendation tab.

In the first step in the process, you have to decide who you want to recommend.

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Choose who to recommend.

Enter the first name, last name, and e-mail address in the box provided, or click the Select from Your Connections List link to find someone in your network.

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Click the Continue button to proceed.

On Create Your Recommendation page, select the position this service provider had when you hired him.

Select an option from the Service Category drop-down list; then select the year you first hired or worked with him.

If you’ve worked with this person more than once, select the check box next to the Year First Hired drop-down list.

Pick the top three attributes that best describe the service provider.

You can select up to three check boxes from the list provided. Remember, you will have a chance for a Written Recommendation in the next step.

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Write your recommendation in the text box provided.

This is where you can talk about your provider’s accomplishments, qualities, and your experience working with him. You simply enter this recommendation in the box provided.

Click the Send button to enter your recommendation into the system.

You see a confirmation message that your service provider recommendation has been created.

If you’ve already left a personal recommendation for this person, you now have two recommendations on this person’s profile, with the only visible difference being the Top Qualities line in the Service Provider recommendation. You may want to delete your old personal recommendation if it overlaps with your new one.