Some well meaning people will endorse you for things they couldn’t possibly know about. This degrades the value of your other endorsements. Fortunately, it’s easy to fix this issue, although for some reason, this process is not well documented:
- Login to your LinkedIn account
- Click on Profile->Edit Profile
- Scroll down to Skills & Expertise (this is what Endorsements are called)
- Click the pencil to edit this area
- Click the lowlighted “Manage Endorsements” link at the top
- Left click on the skill you want to change. The list of endorsers will be shown; unclick any endorser you do not wish to display.
Easy! By the way, if you use my software and you’d like to connect, just send me a request – here’s That Software Guy’s LinkedIn Profile.
Scott, this is useful information for me, if you can add one more tidbit to it: why does an uninformed endorsement hurt your other endorsements? Is it an algorhithmic thing, or something else?
Comment by Jeremy — Sunday, January 27, 2013 @ 4:28 pm
I just think it draws into question all of your endorsements. It’s like spam.
Comment by thatsoftwareguy — Saturday, February 2, 2013 @ 10:05 am