Professional sources help bring your accomplishments from trusted external platforms into your LinkedIn experience. Sources found by LinkedIn are automatically associated with your account and are identified and matched to your account based on information you’ve provided to LinkedIn. You can review and manage these sources in your professional sources dashboard.
Professional sources help us improve our recommendations and services, including better content recommendations, people you may know, and profile summaries shown to others that are created with the help of AI.
At any time, you can stop the use of professional sources by turning off the collection of external data via Settings. If you turn this Setting off, we will no longer use professional sources about you and will delete any existing sources within 30 days.
How LinkedIn matches professional sources to you
LinkedIn identifies potential matches based on:
- Information from trusted platforms.
- Signals you’ve already provided to LinkedIn, such as your profile information.
The type of information we find from trusted external platforms includes (list of categories/types). We will continue to search for more sources and information that are professionally relevant, and if we find information to connect to your profile, you will be notified.
Notes:
- Professional sources do not include customer data or verification data.
- To manage your data with these external sources, please visit their websites and review their privacy policies.
- If applicable, you can choose whether to share professional sources with recruiters or for use in hiring products and services.
- For Apple device users, we do not link your iOS app activity to professional sources for advertising.
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