Adding Certification to LinkedIn Profile

[InfusionX]

I just passed the Inbound Certification course and want to add the badge to my LinkedIn profile.  When I press the "Add to my profile" button to do so, LinkedIn asks for two pieces of information that I don't have: My License Number and the Certification URL.  How/where can I access these?

[Julien · Accepted solution]

Hey @firas @rouk73 @bnapper,

We did receive an official statement from LinkedIn only a few days ago regarding this. Here is a quick snippet of what they sent to us and other Add to Profile partners:

Dear LinkedIn Add To Profile partner,

We have recently started rolling out our new desktop redesign to LinkedIn members. As part of this, we will be changing our Add to Profile functionality, which will impact how third-party information is populated into fields on a LinkedIn member’s profile.

Going forward, developers who implement Add To Profile will be provided with a static URL to generate their button. Links will no longer be customized for a specific certificate or degree. After clicking “Add To Profile,” users will be directed to a profile form where they can fill out the details of their certificate or degree. Existing customized buttons will continue to work, but they will now direct to the new experience without auto-filling certificate or degree information.

You can find more information on our Add To Profile site and HelpCenter FAQs.

Thanks,
The LinkedIn Profile Team

I appreciate everyone's patience with this as we want to find a solution that will make it as easy as possible for all of our users to enjoy this functionality again. I will continue to keep everyone posted as soon as we have a solution.

- Julien

[Julien · Accepted solution]

UPDATE: @VritikaThareja @InfusionX @mlhelton @BeatrizCruz @firas @rouk73 @bnapper @Vdevgan @cschaub25 @hbnguyen

Hey folks, thanks again for your patience with this issue. After trying to work with LinkedIn they confirmed that they are totally deprecating the autofill functionality. Here is the solution to add your badge now:

• Copy and paste the name of the certification into the first field
• Add HubSpot as the provider of the certification
• Add a link to it http://academy.hubspot.com/certification
• Add the date you took it. All certifications are currently valid for 13 months. 
• Leave the license number blank 

I have attached a screenshot of what it should look like. Let me know if you have any questions!

[Julien · Accepted solution]

Hey @firas @rouk73 @bnapper,

We did receive an official statement from LinkedIn only a few days ago regarding this. Here is a quick snippet of what they sent to us and other Add to Profile partners:

Dear LinkedIn Add To Profile partner,

We have recently started rolling out our new desktop redesign to LinkedIn members. As part of this, we will be changing our Add to Profile functionality, which will impact how third-party information is populated into fields on a LinkedIn member’s profile.

Going forward, developers who implement Add To Profile will be provided with a static URL to generate their button. Links will no longer be customized for a specific certificate or degree. After clicking “Add To Profile,” users will be directed to a profile form where they can fill out the details of their certificate or degree. Existing customized buttons will continue to work, but they will now direct to the new experience without auto-filling certificate or degree information.

You can find more information on our Add To Profile site and HelpCenter FAQs.

Thanks,
The LinkedIn Profile Team

I appreciate everyone's patience with this as we want to find a solution that will make it as easy as possible for all of our users to enjoy this functionality again. I will continue to keep everyone posted as soon as we have a solution.

- Julien

[Rak]

Hello, I've completed by Inbound Certification course recently. I've added details about my HubSpot certificate in my LinkedIn profile but the PDF certificate does not show up when I click on the link from LinkedIn. I receive an error message everytime stating 'This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it' etc.

I've noticed your comments below made back in February about an update for all LinkedIn Add-to-profile partners but I haven't seen any solutions yet. Could you assist me with this?

[titus]

Here's the solution that helped me on how to add your HubSpot certification to your LinkedIn profile: 

https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/resources/how-can-i-add-my-hubspot-certifications...

Hope that helps.

Cheers!

[Julien]

Hey Rak,

Thanks for reaching out. Generally, when you get that XML message, you are accessing the file from something cached or it is not hitting the API to generate. 

I would try looking at the badge in an incognito window first. If that doesn't check out, copy the link directly from the learning center rather than the URL and that should work.

Hope this helps!

- Julien

[felipesobral]

Julien, could you please notify me, when the issue was resolved?

[Julien]

Hey @felipesobral, this issue has indeed been resolved. You can see how to add your certifications with this article: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/resources/how-can-i-add-my-hubspot-certifications...

Cheers!

[Julien · Accepted solution]

UPDATE: @VritikaThareja @InfusionX @mlhelton @BeatrizCruz @firas @rouk73 @bnapper @Vdevgan @cschaub25 @hbnguyen

Hey folks, thanks again for your patience with this issue. After trying to work with LinkedIn they confirmed that they are totally deprecating the autofill functionality. Here is the solution to add your badge now:

• Copy and paste the name of the certification into the first field
• Add HubSpot as the provider of the certification
• Add a link to it http://academy.hubspot.com/certification
• Add the date you took it. All certifications are currently valid for 13 months. 
• Leave the license number blank 

I have attached a screenshot of what it should look like. Let me know if you have any questions!

[Oktavio]

Hey Julien,

I took the Sales Management Training course a week ago. I can't add the certificate to my LinkedIn profile. Adding the link http://academy.hubspot.com/certification doesn't really help to enable viewers of my profile to see my certificate.

Could you please help me out on this one?

Thanks and best,

Oktavio

[Anja2912]

Hi! I added the badge on my LinkedIn profile but can't see it anywhere? Can you please help me?
Thank you

[Julien]

Hey @Anja2912, 

Make sure you are adding the certificate directly from the learning center. To do so, navigate to the learning center located in the top right of your HubSpot portal. Then filter by "Status = Completed" in tracks. Click "View Certification" > "Add to LinkedIn" and then complete the details on that screen. Once you have added your certificate to LinkedIn you should be able to see it in your "Accomplishments" section of your profile. 

Best,

Julien

[RobbieH]

So this is what I did.

When you log into Hubspots Certification Center and go to your original course, you can go to the "Download a copy" of your certification.  Click on that and it will give you the link to your actual Certification.  Use that link in the URL section of editing your linkedin certification section.  Copy and paste the ID number that it creates in the browser field into the License number in Linkedin.

[ASaleem]

i did'nt get the link it just started downloading

[ayeshaco]

i did as you said but i can't add my certificate ,please check my attached image.

i have question ,after expire certificate what will happen ?

certificate will be useless or re-issue?

thanking you

[Julien]

Hey @ayeshaco,

Once your certificate expires it will no longer be valid. Because the content changes we recommend getting re-certified in order to keep your badge and knowledge up to date!

Best,

Julien

[Verónica]

Hello.

After reading all the process to update Inbound Certification to my LinkedIn's profile I got it. But leaving the license number blank is not a good idea! This number represents the unique certification domain every person has with HubSpot Academy. Please keep this in mind...

Hope you can solve this issue as soon as you can!

[ablahrach]

Anyone can confirm this from hubspot support ? please

[Julien]

Hey @Verónica, thanks for pointing that out. You can use your unique certificate ID that appears in the URL when you view your certificate. The problem is that LinkedIn removed all verification with these 3rd party certificate changes so in essence it can't get verified anymore. 

If you would like to grab your unique certificate ID, check out the screenshot below to see where that can be found.

[SimoneM]

In your opinion, on LinkedIn, in add certification, it can be an idea put the URL of the printable certificate in the certification URL of LinkedIn?

Thank you

[Julien]

Hey @SimoneM, that is indeed something that could be added into the URL. I think it can be totally up to the user. I'll talk to the team about adding that into the knowledge article!

- Julien

[NickRogers]

I would like to share with everybody a quick fix for the linkedin issue 😉 

In Linkedin where it says "License number" add the serial number found in your badges script (see  below).

<!-- Begin: HubSpot Academy - Inbound Badge -->
<div class='academy-badge'>
<a href='http://academy.hubspot.com/certification' title='Inbound'>
<img src='http://api.hubapi.com/academy/v1/badge-image/COPY/PASTE THE SERIAL NUMBER FOUND IN THIS SECTION' />
</a>
</div>
<!-- End: HubSpot Academy - Inbound Badge -->

As for the "Certification URL"  In the hubspot dashboard (where the above script is located) Click on the "Download a printable certificate" a new window will pop up showing your certificate. Just copy/paste its URL into the Linkiden "Certification URL" field.

Hope the Quick Fix does the trick for all of you 🙂  

[Julien]

Great quick fix @NickRogers. We are trying to work with LinkedIn about doing automatic verification like we used to have but if this happens it won't be for awhile.