How to add new position at same company on LinkedIn

At times, people take on new responsibilities at the same company or  get promoted. That brings on the question of how to add a new position at the same company on LinkedIn?

And there’s a couple different philosophies around that.

• Simply update your current position to the new title and update your description.
• Add each individual position as their own section nestled under the company entry on your profile.

I suppose they both have their advantages and disadvantages. The first one kind of keeps things simplified. May be oversimplified when somebody had a job at the same company.

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The second one can show the true progression of somebody’s experience at a company. Of course, that can be good and bad, depending on how that progression in terms of titles looked.

So those are the options and let’s look at how to do those updates technically speaking

Updating the current title

To update your current title simply go to your profile and click the pencil button and then update your title. Make sure you also update the description below to update the new job and responsibilities. And it’s also OK to include some of the history of what you previously have done and what those responsibilities and successes were.

Then simply update the title and click save.

Add new role on top of old role

When it comes to the best answer to how to add a new position at same company on LinkedIn, the other main option is to add the new role on top of the old role nestled under the company.

When you do that, it ends up looking like this:

That top one is not actually a role I’ve ever held at Growgetter but I wanted to give you an example. All you have to do is tab the plus sign and then tag the same company and Linkedin will automatically add it under that company.

It’s probably not as intuitive as it could be because without trying that or without reading the article you might not guess that’s what will happen. But that’s how it works.

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So when it comes to how to add new position at the same company on LinkedIn, there certainly is the technical way and then there is the strategic way. And it’s important to be aware of both.

Once you added it, make sure to announce it properly as well.

For me personally, I’ve always updated the title of my current role and really just kept one title for every company. But, if you stay with one company for a decade or two, and you keep moving up and over the ranks \ and what not it might make more sense to do it the second way.

So that’s how you do it and those are the things were considering.