How to Change Your LinkedIn Email: Step-by-Step Guide and Tips

Changing your email address on LinkedIn is a quick and easy way to keep your profile up to date. Whether you want to use a new work email address or simply update your contact details, this guide shows you how to change your LinkedIn email address.

How to change your LinkedIn email address

Changing your LinkedIn email address is straightforward. Keep in mind that you can only use a valid, verified email address as your new address. LinkedIn will send you a confirmation email to verify the change. Just follow these steps:

1. Click the “Me” icon in the top-right corner of your LinkedIn homepage.
2. Select “Settings & Privacy” from the dropdown menu.
3. Click “Sign in & security”.
4. Click “Change” next to “Email addresses”.
5. Enter your new email address and click “Add email address”.
6. Select “Send verification” to receive a confirmation email.
7. Confirm the change by clicking the link in the email.
8. Sign in to LinkedIn again. Your email address is now updated.

Link a second email address to LinkedIn

It can be useful to link a second email address to your LinkedIn account, especially if you have both a work and a personal email address. Here’s how to add one:

1. Click the “Me” icon and select “Settings & Privacy”.
2. Go to “Preferences & Privacy” and select “Sign in & security”.
3. Click “Add an email address”.
4. Verify your new email address by clicking the verification link in the confirmation email.

Why add a second email address?

Adding a secondary email address makes your LinkedIn account more secure. If you lose access to your primary email address, for example, you’ll have another way to access your account. This is especially useful if you use a work email address that may no longer be valid after you leave the company.

Hide your email address on LinkedIn

If you’re concerned that your email address is publicly visible on LinkedIn, you can control who sees it. To hide your email address:

1. Click the “Me” icon and select “Settings & Privacy”.
2. Go to “Visibility” and click “Edit”.
3. Choose who can see your email address:
4. • Only visible to me
   • 1st-degree connections
   • 1st- and 2nd-degree connections
   • Everyone on LinkedIn

Before changing jobs and in recruiting

If you’re applying for jobs, make your personal email address your primary address before you change jobs. Otherwise, access to your account depends on an inbox you may lose on your last day of work. You could also lose access to ongoing conversations with recruiters. The same applies to recruiters changing agencies: the account, its network and its conversation history should be linked to an email address you’ll keep. Once that’s sorted, you can plan your direct outreach. With CompLeadly, you can turn a Recruiter search, a Sales Navigator search or a standard people search into a list. Connection requests go to the people on that list, followed by an opening message once they accept. This works for finding candidates as well as reaching hiring managers at companies where you’d like to work. More for recruiters: Recruiting use case; for job seekers: ten common pitfalls in your job search.

Conclusion

Changing your LinkedIn email address is a simple way to keep your account up to date and secure. You can also add a secondary email address and control who sees your address, so your LinkedIn profile works the way you need it to.

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