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Help Endorsements What is an endorsement?

What is an endorsement?

Use endorsements to add support for your skills and work experience.

Add professional experience

Create or update the experience entry you want the endorsement to support.

Request an endorsement

Ask someone you have worked with to confirm your contribution.

Choose visibility

Decide whether to show the endorsement on your Candidate profile.

Written review + skill confirmation

An endorsement confirms your experience, contribution, and skills through someone who has worked with you.

Linked to Professional Experience

Endorsements support a selected role, project, internship, placement, or freelance entry, and help validate the skills already added under it.

Requested from people who know your work

Managers, supervisors, colleagues, clients, project leads, lecturers, internship supervisors, or placement contacts can all provide one.

Published only when you choose

It is not shown on your Candidate profile until you publish it. Advertisers can see it based on your profile privacy settings, or when you share your profile.

Added to tailored and profile resumes

Endorsements are added to tailored resumes and resumes created from your Candidate profile. Review before applying and remove any you do not want included.

Endorsements help advertisers trust your experience before they contact or shortlist you.
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What is an endorsement?
Candidate profile
Written review + skill confirmation

An endorsement confirms your experience, contribution, and skills through someone who has worked with you.

Experience Contribution Skills
Professional Experience
Software Engineer Intern
Example Tech
Internship
JavaScript Teamwork Communication
Endorsement connected to this experience
You can request an endorsement from someone who knows your work.
Manager
Supervisor
Colleague
Client
Project Lead
Lecturer
Internship Supervisor
Placement Contact
Endorsements are not shown on your Candidate profile until you choose to publish them.
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Publish endorsement

Advertisers can see visible endorsements based on your profile privacy settings, or when you share your profile with your resume or application.

Endorsements are added to tailored resumes and profile-based resumes.
Tailored Resume (VitalFew Assistance)
Endorsement added
Profile-based Resume
Endorsement added
Review before applying — remove any endorsement you do not want included
1Confirms your skills and experience
2Linked to Professional Experience
3Published only when you choose
4Can support applications and tailored resumes
Endorsements help advertisers trust your experience before they contact or shortlist you.

An endorsement is a written review and skill confirmation from someone you have worked with. It helps support your Candidate profile by showing that another person can confirm your experience, contribution, and skills.

Endorsements are linked to Professional experience. They support a selected role, project, internship, placement, freelance work, or other experience entry. They also help validate the skills already added under that experience.

You can request an endorsement from someone who knows your work, such as a manager, supervisor, colleague, client, project lead, lecturer, internship supervisor, or placement contact.

The endorsement is not shown on your Candidate profile until you choose to publish it. Advertisers can see visible endorsements based on your profile privacy settings, or when you share your profile with your resume or application.

Endorsements are added to tailored resumes created with VitalFew Assistance and resumes created from your Candidate profile. Review the resume before applying and remove any endorsement you do not want included.

To request one, go to How do I request an endorsement? for the full flow. To understand how endorsements support resumes, see How do endorsements support my applications and tailored resumes? for more detail.

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