How to Post a Promotion on LinkedIn

A promotion on LinkedIn is two separate actions that people treat as one. The profile edit triggers the congratulations; the post you write is the part anyone remembers.

Updated 2026-10-03

How do you announce a promotion on LinkedIn?

Start with the profile, because the post will point to it. LinkedIn's Help Center gives this path for adding a position on a computer, as of October 2026:

1. Click the Me icon at the top of your homepage, then View Profile.

2. Click Add profile section in your introduction section.

3. Open the Core dropdown and choose Add position.

4. Fill in the new title, the company, the start date and, if you like, a description and skills.

5. Decide whether to tick Update my headline, which shows the new role in your introduction section.

6. Check the notify network setting, then click Save.

On mobile, tap your profile photo, open your profile, tap Add section, and under Core tap Add position. The fields are the same.

Once it's saved, anyone who opens your profile sees the change straight away, whether or not you notified anyone. LinkedIn says job updates can take up to two hours to be shared with your network when notifications are on.

How do you show two roles at the same company?

Add the promotion as a new position rather than editing the old one. Overwriting your previous title erases the progression, which is the whole point of showing a promotion.

Keep the earlier role, give it an end date the month the new one began, and add the new title with the same company selected from the list, so both entries link to the company's LinkedIn Page. On current profiles, consecutive positions at the same company are usually shown together under the company name, with each title and its dates listed beneath, which makes the step up obvious at a glance.

If your old title was set as current with no end date, LinkedIn may show you in two current roles at once. Edit the old position, add the end date, and save before posting anything.

How do you add a promotion without notifying your network?

Switch the notification off before you save the new position. LinkedIn offers two places to do it.

While editing on a computer, the edit window has a share with network setting; turn it off for this change only. Or turn sharing off for all profile edits in your settings, described in the next section.

Two things stay true either way. Your profile changes the moment you save it, so anyone who visits sees the new title, just as they can open a resume placed in your Featured section (uploading a resume to LinkedIn explains the private alternative). And turning the notification off doesn't stop you posting about it later in your own words, which is often the better announcement anyway.

People usually choose quiet mode when they're updating several sections at once, when the promotion is internal and not yet public, or when they want their own post to be the first thing people see.

How do you turn off job change notifications?

In settings, under Visibility. LinkedIn's Help Center path on a computer:

1. Click the Me icon, then Settings and Privacy.

2. Click Visibility on the left.

3. Under Visibility of your LinkedIn activity, click Share profile updates.

4. Switch the toggle off.

In the app: tap your profile photo, then Settings and Privacy, Visibility, Share profile updates, and switch it off. The change saves automatically.

This setting covers job changes, promotions, education changes and work anniversaries. If you turn it off before editing your Experience section, none of those edits will generate notifications until you turn it back on.

Should you post a promotion as an update or a post?

Use the update for the record and the post for the message, and do both if the promotion matters to people outside your team.

The automatic update is effortless and reliably brings congratulations from your close network, but it says nothing beyond the title, and LinkedIn deletes it after 90 days. A written post takes ten minutes, stays on your profile and can reach people who never see profile updates. How to write engaging LinkedIn posts covers why posts that invite a reply travel further than ones that only invite a like.

If you do both, write the post a day or two after the update, so the two don't compete in the same feeds on the same afternoon.

What should a promotion post on LinkedIn say?

Less about the title, more about what changes. A post that only says you were promoted reads like the automated update people already saw. The ones that get read tend to cover:

• The new role in one line, and what you'll be responsible for.
• One specific thing from the previous role you're proud of, with a number or an outcome if you have one.
• The people who made it possible, tagged, which also puts the post in front of their networks.
• What you're looking forward to, or a question for people who've made the same move.

Does a promotion post get more reach?

LinkedIn doesn't publish figures for promotion posts, and there's no setting that boosts them. They tend to do well for an ordinary reason: congratulations are easy to give, so people react and comment, and LinkedIn's feed weighs that kind of interaction and how long people spend on a post. How the LinkedIn algorithm works explains dwell time and the relevance matching LinkedIn has described.

The early reactions matter because they're what the next reader sees. A thoughtful post sitting at two reactions looks overlooked; the same post with a few dozen looks worth a minute. If you want that first impression covered, LinkedIn likes adds reactions to your post from its URL, without access to your account. It changes the count shown, not what LinkedIn decides to distribute, and comments from colleagues still carry the post. Every LinkedIn service is listed on the LinkedIn page, and how to create a LinkedIn profile covers the rest of the profile visitors land on.

Questions people ask about announcing a promotion on LinkedIn