Adding your PPB activity to your LinkedIn profile

Jared Tabor
May 21
2 min read

If you use LinkedIn as part of your professional presence online, you may want to consider showcasing your status as a PPB volunteer there, if you haven't already. You can add this as part of your work experience, but you can also add it in the "Licenses and certifications" section (you may need to add this section if you don't have it yet). Here's how:

If you don't have the section in your profile already, add it by going to the top of your profile and clicking on the "Add section" button.
From the "Licenses & certifications" section, click on the plus sign to add a new one. Under "Name", put ProZ Pro Bono volunteer. Under "Issuing organization", type in ProZ Pro Bono, and PPB's LinkedIn page will come up to link it to the credential. For "Credential URL", since we don't host volunteer certificates but automatically generate them when you need them, you can put in the link to the PPB website, prozprobono.world, or even better, if your ProZ.com profile is nice and professional-looking, you can put that link in, where people will also be able to see your PPB badge and current word count. If your ProZ.com profile doesn't showcase the best you have to offer at the moment, take some time to fill it out the best you can. All of these things are how clients are going to be able to find you and evaluate whether you are worth contacting for that next project.
In the same form, you can add Skills and Media. If you choose to add your word count certificate as media, just remember that it will not update on its own!