How to add a promotion on LinkedIn

To add a promotion on LinkedIn, add your new title as a new position under the same company instead of overwriting the current one. LinkedIn then groups both roles under one company heading with your total tenure, which shows the promotion at a glance.

The steps below follow LinkedIn's Help Center as checked on November 5, 2026. LinkedIn is testing a new navigation, so a menu name may differ slightly on your account.

Add the new title as a new position

LinkedIn groups positions held at the same company when the new position's start date is within one month of the previous position's end date. Grouped roles sit under a single company name and logo, in chronological order, with your total tenure under the company name and each role's own dates below. Editing the old title in place would erase that history.

On desktop

LinkedIn's Experience section instructions give this route:

1. Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage and open your profile. Newer Help pages call it your Profile card in the dropdown; older ones say View Profile.
2. Click Add profile section in your introduction section.
3. Open the Core dropdown, then click Add position.
4. In the Add experience window, check the notification toggle at the top before you type anything. The next section explains it.
5. Enter your new title. Type the company name and pick it from the dropdown so the entry links to the company's LinkedIn Page, then set the start date of the new role.
6. Click Save.
7. Close out the old role: in the Experience section, click Show all experiences, click the Edit icon next to your previous title, give it an end date in the month the new role started, and click Save.

In the LinkedIn app

1. Tap your profile photo, then tap your Profile card.
2. Tap Add section. The app says Add section where desktop says Add profile section.
3. Under Core, tap Add position.
4. On the Add experience page, enter the new title, select the company from the list and set the start date.
5. Tap Save.
6. To end the old role, scroll to Experience, tap the Edit icon, tap the Edit icon again next to the previous position, add the end date and tap Save.

There is also a shortcut through your introduction section. Click or tap the Edit icon there, and in Edit intro choose Add new position under Primary position. It opens the same Add experience form. LinkedIn's introduction section page documents this route on desktop and in the app.

Decide whether your network gets notified

Before you save, look at the toggle at the top of Add experience. One LinkedIn page calls it the Notify network section and another the Share with network section; both describe the same per-edit choice. Switch it off to update quietly.

There is also an account-wide setting. On desktop, click Me, select Settings & Privacy, open the Visibility tab and, under Visibility of your LinkedIn activity, click Share profile updates. In the app, tap your profile photo, then Settings & Privacy, Visibility and Share profile updates. Set the toggle to Off. LinkedIn's Share profile updates page mentions the per-edit toggle only for edits made on a computer, so if you don't see it in the app, use this setting before you start.

The same page has details that affect timing:

• With sharing on, a job change can appear as a post in your network's feed, an in-app notification or an email. Job updates can take up to two hours to go out.
• Editing or deleting the update after adding it may affect whether the notification is generated. Get the title and dates right before the first save.
• Automated update posts stay up for up to 90 days and don't appear in the Posts tab of your Recent Activity page.
• Quiet is not hidden. Anyone who views your profile sees the change as soon as you save it.

If your company hasn't announced the promotion yet, wait. An update with the toggle off still shows the new title to every profile visitor.

Announce the promotion with a post

The automatic update only says you started a new position. A post you write can say what changes for the people who work with you.

On desktop, click Start a post at the top of your homepage; the Celebrate icon in the composer offers occasion posts. In the app, tap Post in the navigation bar, then the Plus icon and Celebration. A post can hold up to 3,000 characters, and you choose who sees it: Anyone, Connections only or a Group (LinkedIn's posting instructions).

If you leave the notification on and also post, your network may see two updates about the same news. Pick one, or accept both.

Two short templates. Replace the brackets with your details:

Some news: I've moved into the role of [new title] at [company], after [time] as [previous title]. Thank you to [people, tagged only if they'd welcome it] for [specific help]. Next I'm focused on [one concrete area], so if that's your world too, I'd like to compare notes.

From this month I'm [new title] at [company]. For clients, that means [concrete change, such as "I now lead onboarding for every new account"]. Nothing changes in how you reach me, and [colleague] is taking over [old responsibility].

The second fits client-facing roles, where readers mainly want to know who to contact now. Check where the text cuts off on a phone with the LinkedIn post preview tool before you publish.

Update your headline and About section

Your headline is a separate field from your current position. LinkedIn's headline page says it's usually created when you add a new current position, and editing one doesn't change the other. So check it after the promotion. When you add the position, the Update my headline option can display the new role in your introduction section.

To edit the headline on desktop, click Me, open your Profile card, click the Edit icon in your introduction section and change the Headline field in Edit intro. In the app, tap your profile picture, then your Profile card, the Edit icon and the Headline field.

Rewrite the headline around the new scope rather than adding the new title to the old one. The LinkedIn headline generator builds options from your own facts. Then reread the first lines of your About section: a summary that still describes the previous job contradicts the title right above it. If the promotion came with a new credential, add it to Licenses & certifications as well.

If you keep a profile in a second language, update it by hand. LinkedIn says position changes don't carry over to a secondary language profile.

Why an outdated title costs you accepted invitations

When you prospect on LinkedIn, many people open your profile before they accept a connection request. If your note says you lead partnerships and the profile still says account executive, that mismatch is the first thing they see. Our acceptance rate guide checks the profile before the wording of the note for this reason, and a profile that explains your offer covers the headline, About and Featured sections in more depth.

Common problems

The two roles don't group. Check the dates first: the new start date must fall within one month of the old end date. Then check the company. If one entry was picked from the dropdown and the other typed as plain text, edit the plain one and select the company from the list. LinkedIn also suggests setting the employment type on each position so the progression reads clearly.

Roles from different companies are grouped together. LinkedIn's fix is to check and update the company name on the wrong entry so the two separate.

There's no logo, or the company name isn't linked. LinkedIn shows a company logo only when you select the company from the type-ahead menu, and only companies with a LinkedIn Page appear there. If the Page was created after you added the position, edit the position and select the company again.

The old title still shows at the top of your profile. Your introduction lists the current position with the most recent start date first, so give the old role an end date. If you hold two current roles, choose which one to show under Primary position in Edit intro. You can also reorder current positions with the Sort icon in the Experience section. Past roles are sorted by date and can't be moved.

Your network was notified when you didn't want it to be. LinkedIn's Help Center doesn't describe a way to recall the notification. Make any corrections in one edit rather than several, and switch off Share profile updates before your next change.