Can you make LinkedIn private while editing?

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional networking platform, with over 850 million members worldwide. While having a public profile on LinkedIn allows you to connect with other professionals and be discovered by recruiters, there may be times when you want to edit your profile privately before publishing changes.

Can you hide your profile while editing on LinkedIn?

Yes, LinkedIn allows you to hide your profile from public view while you are making edits. Here’s how:

1. Go to your LinkedIn profile page
2. Click on the “Me” icon at the top of your profile (your profile picture)
3. Select “View profile”
4. Click on the three dots icon next to the “Edit public profile & URL” button
5. Select “Manage visibility”
6. Under “Profile visibility”, toggle the slider from “Visible to everyone” to “Visible only to you”

This will immediately hide your profile from public view on LinkedIn. You can then freely make edits to your profile without anyone else being able to see the changes. When you are done editing, return to the “Manage visibility” settings and switch your profile back to public view.

What can you edit privately on LinkedIn?

While your profile is set to private view, you can edit almost all sections of your LinkedIn profile, including:

• Profile photo
• Header photo
• Contact info
• About section
• Experience section
• Education section
• Skills section
• Accomplishments section
• Interests section
• Profile custom URL

The only sections you cannot edit while your profile is private are those that require engagement from your connections, such as recommendations. But all content and information that you add yourself can be edited privately.

Why make your LinkedIn profile private while editing?

There are a few key reasons why you may want to utilize LinkedIn’s profile visibility settings when making major edits:

• Avoid incomplete profiles: If you are in the midst of making major updates, hiding your profile ensures no one will see an incomplete or “in progress” version.
• Test changes: Making tweaks privately allows you to preview how changes will look before publishing to the wider LinkedIn community.
• Reduce notifications: Editing privately prevents spamming your network with notifications every time you make minor edits.
• Manage perceptions: For major career changes, you may want to wait to publicize the news until your profile reflects your new role or status.

Essentially, toggling your profile to private while editing gives you complete control over how and when you share profile changes. You can ensure your profile is fully updated before flipping the visibility back to public view.

How long can you keep your profile private on LinkedIn?

You can keep your LinkedIn profile private for as long as you want while editing. There is no time limit on the private setting. Your profile will remain fully hidden until you manually switch the visibility back to public. However, keeping your profile private indefinitely is not recommended, as you will lose out on the main benefits of LinkedIn, like networking opportunities.

Can people see if you make your LinkedIn private?

No, toggling your profile to private view is completely invisible to others. Your connections will simply no longer be able to view your profile. They will not receive any kind of notification that you have changed the visibility settings.

Can recruiters see your private LinkedIn profile?

In most cases, no. Hiding your profile will prevent recruiters, as well as all other LinkedIn members, from being able to access it. The only exception is if you have an existing relationship with a recruiter as a 1st-degree connection. In that case, they will still be able to see your profile since 1st-degree connections are exempt from visibility settings.

Is LinkedIn still public if you turn off public profile?

LinkedIn remains a public platform even if you toggle your personal profile to private while editing. All community content, groups, company pages, etc. will still be visible. You are simply removing access to your individual profile. LinkedIn does not offer settings to use it as a fully private social network.

Can connections see your profile if private?

No, hiding your profile prevents all of your connections from seeing it until you make it visible again. The only people who can access your profile while it is private are you and LinkedIn admins.

Is it bad to make LinkedIn private?

Temporarily making your LinkedIn profile private while editing is not bad at all. In fact, it is often recommended to avoid sharing unfinished profiles. The only downside is if you keep your profile private for too long, preventing networking opportunities. In moderation, toggling to a private profile is fine and can help you manage your professional presence.

Conclusion

Making your LinkedIn profile private while you are editing is easy to do and prevents unfinished changes from being publicized before you are ready. Take advantage of LinkedIn’s visibility settings to control how and when you share profile updates. Just be sure not to keep your profile hidden for too long, or you’ll miss out on the true value of LinkedIn for connecting with other professionals.