By default, your LinkedIn activity is private.
Nobody will receive anynotificationswhen you apply for any jobs.
In 2020,profile updatesare rarely notified to your connections.
You might have added new experience and edited past experiences.
But these are not mentioned on your connections notifications.
This is designed by default and has some purpose.
ntrary, you are bombarded with messages about your work anniversaries.
It can be awkward when your employer finds that you are looking for anew job.
Some notifications also go to your connections.
This way they will know that you trying to make a job switch.
There are several private controls in LinkedIn which make you more comfortable with your job search.
You are most likely to make changes to your LinkedIn profile when you are searching for a job.
In this regards, you are looking for new jobs outside your company.
You want to see to it that your present employer is not notified of your job search.
Also, you dont want to fill your connections newsfeeds with your profile update activity.
LinkedIn Updates to your Connections
The following LinkedIn Changes will send updates to your connections.
The following changes automatically send updates and you cannot deactivate these notifications.
So this setting indicates that you are willing to be contacted for job change.
To choose Private Mode you’ve got the option to do the following.
The default option isfull profilewhich is the public profile mode.
This is useful if you are actively looking for a job change, irrespective of privacy.
For example, Journalist in the Publishing industry from Visakhapatnam.
When you are in private mode, you are like an anonymous LinkedIn member.
This is useful if you want to be secret while viewing others profile.
Note: When you become a Premium member with a subscription, you could browse in private mode.
This is not possible with a Free (Basic) account.
But with private mode on, LinkedIn respects a members privacy configs.
You dont want these pesky job hunters annoy your connections.
So if you want to keep the list of your connection private, than you could take these actions.
If you dont want your endorsement to be visible, than you might opt out.
How to Prevent Sharing of Job Changes etc.
In the Private tab mode, you’re free to take these actions.
This will prevent your connections to be notified of your work anniversaries and changes to your profile.
So whenever you make a change to your profile, your connection will not be notified.
This also reduces the number of notifications, your connections see, when you make small changes.
