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It’s one thing to say you know a skill; it’s another to prove it. LinkedIn provides a Skill Assessments feature that enables you to demonstrate your knowledge of the skills you added to the Skills & Endorsements section of your profile. Skills Assessments are made up of multiple-choice quizzes that you can take to earn a badge for your skills. Following are the three categories of quizzes and a few of the topics available:

 Tech Skills: Angular, AutoCAD, AWS, Bash, C, C#, C++, CSS, GIT, Hadoop, HTML, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Maven, MongoDB, NodeJs, Objective-C, PHP, Python, R, React.js, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scala, Swift, WordPress, XML

 General Skills: Adobe Acrobat, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Word, QuickBooks

 Other Skills: Maya, Revit

LinkedIn is developing more quizzes all the time, so you may find that more are available than what is listed here. Here’s how to access the Skills Assessment quizzes:

1 Open your LinkedIn profile.

2 Scroll down to the Skills & Endorsements section.

3 Click the Take Skill Quiz button, as shown in Figure 3-5.If you don’t see this button, LinkedIn may still be developing quizzes for the skills you have listed.

FIGURE 3-5: Click the Take Skill Quiz button to prove your knowledge.

The Skills Assessment feature is a great way to stand out from the crowd to recruiters and hiring managers. By taking quizzes to showcase your proficiency, you are showing you are relevant, proactive, and care about your professional development. LinkedIn has stated that by earning badges for your profile, you are helping to uncover more relevant content or opportunities on LinkedIn. Based on the skills you have proven you know, LinkedIn can better customize your LinkedIn feed and potentially jobs, LinkedIn Learning courses, and people suggestions.

The good news is, you don’t have to worry about not getting an A. As long you score in the 70th percentile or above, you will pass the quiz and awarded a badge. The badges are only good for 12 months, though. After that they expire.