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Verify your LinkedIn account (full guide)

To verify your organization's credentials with LinkedIn, you link your LinkedIn page or profile in POK Proof of Knowledge and then confirm ownership by publishing a post that contains your POK Proof code. This guide covers the full process for company pages, educational pages, and personal accounts. If you only need the essentials, see the short version.

For company pages​

  1. Open your page from your admin account.

  2. Click 'View as member' in the upper left corner of the profile.

LinkedIn admin view with the 'View as member' option highlighted

  1. From the 'View as member' page, copy the URL up to the company name, without the fragment '/about/?viewAsMember=true'.

  2. In the 'User profile link' box in POK, paste the URL you copied from LinkedIn. For example: https://www.linkedin.com/company/your-page-name

Copying the company page URL and pasting it into the 'User profile link' field in POK

For educational pages​

  1. Open your page from your admin account.

  2. Click 'View as member' in the upper left corner of the profile.

LinkedIn school page admin view with the 'View as member' option highlighted

  1. From the 'View as member' page, copy the URL up to the school name, without the fragment '/about/?viewAsMember=true'.

  2. In the 'User profile link' box in POK, paste the URL you copied from LinkedIn. For example: https://www.linkedin.com/school/your-page-name

Copying the school page URL and pasting it into the 'User profile link' field in POK

For personal accounts​

  1. Go to your profile from "View Profile".

LinkedIn menu with the 'View Profile' option

  1. Copy the URL from the browser address bar.

Browser address bar showing the LinkedIn profile URL to copy

  1. Paste the URL in the requested format into POK and click "Confirm".

Complete the account verification​

Once your LinkedIn account is linked, you still need to complete the verification. You do this by publishing a post on your LinkedIn feed with the 'POK Proof' code you receive during the process. Follow these steps:

  1. From 'Organization Settings', click 'Complete Verification' next to the linked LinkedIn account.

  2. Copy the post containing the 'POK Proof' using the 'Copy' button.

  3. Create a LinkedIn post with the 'POK Proof'. Remember to set the post visibility to 'Anyone on or off LinkedIn'.

LinkedIn post composer with the POK Proof text pasted

LinkedIn post visibility settings with 'Anyone on or off LinkedIn' selected

  1. Copy the link to the post: click the three dots at the top of the post, then 'Copy link to post'.

Post options menu opened from the three dots at the top of the post

The 'Copy link to post' option in the LinkedIn post menu

  1. Paste the link into the 'Post link' box in POK and click 'Verify'.