10 New LinkedIn Features To Help Your Job Search

LinkedIn rolls out many new features throughout the year. Yet, because communication about them is not easily found, it is very easy to miss them or stumble on something and say to yourself, “is that new?”

For job seekers, some great new tools were introduced in 2022 that may help you as you seek work. Here are some of the best new LinkedIn features for job seekers to use.

Notification That Someone Is Following You On Their Profile

LinkedIn allows members to connect with each other or follow each other. It has been difficult to quickly see if a specific individual is following you. On the desktop version only, you can go to My Network icon, click on People I Follow, and then click on [Number] Followers to view a list of followers. But there is no search availability, so depending on your number of followers, it is of no use to identify if a specific person is a follower.

Now, you can see if a person is a follower right on their profile AND when they started following you.

The blue button (like below) will indicate they are following you, and you can follow back by tapping on it. Still, there is now an indicator in the Highlights section with the notification that the person is following you and the month and year they started following.