How to Change Your Email on Linkedin

How to Change Your Email on Linkedin

LinkedIn is a professional social networking site and it helps you find a job as you can showcase in that your education, your certifications, your previous jobs, and your skills.

You use this site to find a job that suits your needs and you can specify the job posts and the locations that you are interested in so that you will appear in the list after the search a recruiter will do to find a suitable candidate for the job they want.

As you can imagine, the email address you have on your LinkedIn account is important as it is where you will get any notifications concerning jobs, etc.

LinkedIn offers you the opportunity to not have just one email address on your account. You can have multiple ones and you can log in to your account either using the primary email you have entered or any additional one that you may have added.

In order for you to be sure that you will always have access to your account it is recommended that you add one personal address and one work address or maybe more but make sure you have one from each category and that you check it regularly.

It is very easy to add more email addresses to your account or choose which will be the primary email address in which you will get all the notifications concerning LinkedIn.

But at this point, we have to mention that if you want to change your primary email address this can only be done if using a verified email address.

Now let’s check out how you can change your email address on LinkedIn in case you are using your desktop or your mobile/LinkedIn app.

In case you want to change your email address using your desktop, you need to do the following :

  • First, you must go to your LinkedIn homepage and click the “Me” icon that appears at the top.
  • Then, you need to click the “Settings & Privacy” option and then the “Sign-in & Security” that is located on the left.
  • Under “Account access”, click the “Change” option that is located next to the “Email addresses”.
  • After clicking the “Add email address” option, enter the email address you wish to add.
  • Then click the “Send verification”. You will need to enter your LinkedIn password to complete this step.
  • After you successfully log in to your account, you have to follow the instructions in order to verify the email address you have added.
  • This step is optional: In case you wish to have as a primary email address the address you have just added, you have to click the option “Make primary” that is next to the above-mentioned email address.

In case you are using your mobile, in order for you to change the email address on LinkedIn you need to do the following steps:

  • Tap the photo you have on your profile and then tap “Settings”.
  • Then, tap on the “Sign In & Security” option and then “Email address”.
  • Then, choose the “Add email address” option and just enter the email address you want to add. Then, you need to enter the password you have for your LinkedIn account so that the verification can be done.
  • After you successfully log in to your LinkedIn account, tap “Submit”.
  • At this point, you will need to log in to your email account and follow the instructions in order for the validation to be done.
  • This step is optional: In case you wish to have as a primary email address the address you have just added, you have to tap the option “Make primary” that is next to the above-mentioned email address.

Conclusion

In this article we have gone through the process you need to follow in order to change your email address on LinkedIn and also, the step you need to follow if you wish to make this new email address your primary one where you will receive all the LinkedIn related notifications.

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