Featured, recommendations and contact info

Featured

Featured is the showcase that sits right under your About. Add profile section, Recommended, Add featured, then choose Post, Article, Link or Media. What goes here: a project you are proud of, your portfolio or website, a certificate, a talk you gave, or your best post. Students: a class project, a GitHub repo or a design.

For a link, paste the address, give it a clear title and one line that says what it is, and save. Two to four items is the sweet spot, and put your best one first: the first card gets seen the most.

Recommendations

Add profile section, Recommended, Add recommendation, then Ask for a recommendation. Pick a connection, choose your relationship and your position at the time, and write a short personal message. Ask two or three people who actually worked with you: a manager, a teacher, a client. And give one first: write a recommendation for someone, and most people return the favor.

A three-line request you can copy: "Hi [name], we worked together on [project] in [year]. If you can, I'd love a few lines about [the one or two things you want them to mention]. Thank you so much."

Contact info

On your intro card, click the pencil, then Edit contact info. Add your email (the one you actually check), your website (a personal site, a portfolio or your company's page) and, if you want, your phone. Birthday is optional; if you add it, keep it visible to you only. Who can see your email is a visibility setting, set to Connections in lesson 6.

The rest of Recommended

Projects, Volunteer experience, Languages, Courses, Honors & awards: add what is true and skip the rest. A short, honest list beats an empty one, and it beats a padded one too.

Module 1 is complete. Top to bottom you now have a photo and banner, a headline, an About, your experience, education and skills, Featured, recommendations and contact info. Run a free scan to get your score and see what to fix first.