I wanted to dedicate a post to a newish LinkedIn feature that enables the platform’s users to spotlight other members of their LinkedIn network by sharing someone’s profile with their LinkedIn connections. You can also share your own profile to your network.

You can share your profile with any of your 1st-degree connections and coworkers from the introduction card on your profile. This can help you to grow your network, or to increase your chance of finding and securing professional opportunities.

To share your profile:

  1. Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.
  2. Click View profile.
  3. Click the More button in your introduction card.
  4. Select Share Profile from the dropdown menu. You’ll be redirected to a new message window.
  5. In the new message window, type a name or multiple names of the connection(s) you wish to share your profile with. Note: Your public profile URL will populate in the text box.
  6. You can include a personalized message in the field provided, and/or attach media to send to the recipient(s).
  7. Click Send.

You can also use the Share Profile feature to introduce any LinkedIn member to someone in your network who may benefit from knowing them.

To share a member’s profile:

  1. Navigate to the profile of the member whose profile you’d like to share.
  2. Click the More button on their introduction card.
  3. Select Share Profile from the dropdown menu. You’ll be redirected to a new message window.
  4. In the new message window, type a name or multiple names of the connection(s) with whom you want to share the profile.
  5. Click send.
  6. You can also share a profile from your home screen in the write a post dialogue box. You’ll see the option to share a post now on the bottom left hand side (see screenshot).

Check it out and let me know what you think of this new feature.