Months after introducing free verification options, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is now rolling out new ways for individuals to verify their identity and where they work. LinkedIn users will be given three additional ways to verify their identity as well as their workplace's identity.
The feature will be rolling out at the end of this month, and the company plans to make this available to dozens of participating companies reaching more than two million LinkedIn members.
In a bid to provide verification for its members in the US, LinkedIn is partnering with CLEAR, a secure identity platform. Starting this month, users can display on their profile that they verified their identity with CLEAR and to do so, all they need is a US government-issued ID and phone number.
"Starting today, we're rolling out three additional ways to verify your identity and where you work. We believe verification should be for everyone on LinkedIn, that's why every feature will be available and free to all our members," the professional networking platform wrote in a blog post.
Another way includes verifying "where you work with your company email", which means users now can verify where they work using their company-issued email addresses.
According to the company, around 50 million members globally are on LinkedIn, and there are over 4,000 companies, and this is one more way to demonstrate the authenticity of your profile. The company said that it will be rolling this feature out to more companies and expanding eligibility. Moreover, LinkedIn members can also verify where they work with Microsoft Entra.
The company is partnering with Microsoft to allow organisations to leverage the Microsoft Entra Verified ID platform to issue digital workplace IDs for free, enabling workers to display the verification on their LinkedIn profiles.