The Power of LinkedIn and Microsoft Entra Collaboration
When you meet a professional contact for the first time online in the digital age, you need more trust indicators to boost your confidence that they are who they claim to be. Recruiters and professionals have long struggled with the difficulty of workplace verification. Inaccurate or false information regarding job titles, responsibilities, and organizations can seriously undermine confidence and prevent networking success. These difficulties affect both job seekers looking for fresh prospects and hiring managers trying to make educated choices. LinkedIn and Microsoft Entra have developed a new method of confirming your place of employment. This new tool is intended to assist you in presenting your professional expertise in a more reputable and reliable manner, which can be especially helpful if you’re seeking a job or trying to build a good reputation in your field.
How does it work?
Organizations can use Verified IDs to quickly design digital employee IDs that correspond to their brand and operational requirements. Members of LinkedIn have the opportunity to confirm their place of employment on their profile. Members can access their company’s digital employee ID with only a few taps on their phone and opt to share it on LinkedIn. After sending the credentials, their profile will show a Workplace verification.
Benefits of LinkedIn and Microsoft Entra Workplace Verification for Professionals
This collaboration will benefit employers and employees alike. Some of the benefits are as follows,1
Improved Hiring Decisions: Employers and recruiters may rely on verified workplace data to make more knowledgeable hiring decisions. This reduces the chance of hiring people based on fraudulent or inflated statements and enhances the general effectiveness of talent acquisition procedures.
Increased Credibility: Professionals can establish their reputation and develop trust with peers, clients, and potential employers by displaying validated workplace badges. As a result, they improve their reputation in the industry and have a better chance of getting hired for suitable positions.
Streamlined Networking: Professionals may confidently network with people who have confirmed employment information, making LinkedIn networking more effective and reliable. This encourages fruitful collaborations and deep ties.
Reduced Fraudulent Activities: By combining blockchain technology with AI-driven validation, fraudulent activities, including phony profiles, identity theft, and falsified workplace data, are greatly reduced. This helps to create a professional environment that is safer and more dependable.
Get Started with LinkedIn and Entra Workplace Verification
The new workplace verification process introduced by LinkedIn and Microsoft Entra is designed to be user-friendly and efficient. Professionals and employers can now utilize the following actions to guarantee the validity of workplace data:
Integration with Entra: LinkedIn users can now access Entra’s verification services more easily by integrating their profiles with Microsoft Entra.
Workplace Verification Request: Users can submit a workplace verification request for their employment history, naming the organizations and job titles they want to have verified.
Blockchain-based Verification: The Microsoft Entra platform uses blockchain technology to verify the desired workplace data, ensuring its accuracy and consistency.
AI-Powered Validation: AI algorithms review the supplied data and compare it to already-existing records to verify its authenticity, making sure that each piece of information is consistent with the blockchain-verified data.
Verified Workplace Badges: After the verification procedure is completed, LinkedIn awards verified workplace badges based on the validated information, thereby boosting the validity and reliability of the individual’s professional profile.
Embracing the Power of Verified Workplaces
Verifying professional credentials for LinkedIn use is only one example of how Verified ID can simplify and improve the reliability of all digital interactions, whether they involve businesses or individuals. Background checks, incentive programs, help desk support, and a variety of other situations that call for documentation of employment connections can all benefit from this new method of verification. The process of confirming a potential employee’s identification and credentials will also become less manual, expensive, and time-consuming.
But this is only the beginning. In many situations, verified ID credentials can save cost, time, and friction while increasing confidence, validity, and verifiability. Employee IDs can currently be issued via Verified ID.
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