How to Edit Interests on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is one of the most important professional, social networking sites, if not the most important of all. This site not only helps you find a job but it also gives you the opportunity to connect with people you know, with your colleagues and with recruiters and potential employers who are in search of an employee.

There you can share your profile picture, your background picture and you can showcase your education, your experience, your certificates and your skills.

Among all the great features that LinkedIn offers is the interests feature where you share your interests. But what exactly is this and how is it useful?

What are your interests on LinkedIn and how such a feature is useful to you?

The interests on LinkedIn are the companies, the groups, the schools, the influencers, etc. that you are following on this specific site.

By adding interests on your LinkedIn profile you help your colleagues and most importantly the recruiters and the potential employers learn about the things that interest you and that may help you in finding people who follow the same interests with you.

Finally, adding interests is an efficient way to gain followers and draw attention of recruiters and potential employers to your profile.

What do you have to do if you want to edit your interests on LinkedIn? Let’s find out.

In case you are using your desktop and you want to edit your interests on LinkedIn, here is the process you must follow:

• First, you have to go to your LinkedIn homepage and then you need to scroll down until you find the “Interests” section.
• When you have located the “Interests” section, click on the “See all” option and there will appear all the interests you have added by following them (including influencers, companies and schools).
• Next to each interest you have added there appears a “Following” option. If you wish to unfollow this interest, just click on that and that’s it! Repeat this process for every interest you want to edit.

In case you are using your mobile and you want to edit your interests on LinkedIn, you have to follow these steps:

• First, you have to go to your LinkedIn profile and then you need to scroll down until you find the “Interests” section.
• When you have located the “Interests” section, click on the “See all” option and there will appear all the interests you have added by following them (including influencers, companies and schools).
• Next to each interest you have added there appears a “Following” option. If you wish yo unfollow this interest, just tap on that and that’s it! Repeat this process for every interest you want to edit.

Conclusion

In this article, we have explained what the interests on LinkedIn are and how such a feature is useful to you. Additionally, we have gone through the process you need to follow in order to edit the interests you have added on LinkedIn, whether you are using your desktop or your mobile.

Rijon Islam