Your URL is assigned by LinkedIn, but you can change it in account settings. LinkedIn is a helpful resource for professionals to connect with colleagues, business associates, and potential employers.

If you have a LinkedIn profile -- and I certainly hope you do -- you're going to want to let people know about it. You can do that easily by sharing the website address (URL) of your LinkedIn profile.

To customize your LinkedIn URL, press the "edit profile" button. Click the gear symbol next to your URL, which will take you to a separate page where a "your public profile URL" box will let you ...

And LinkedIn is launching an official URL shortener, Lnkd.in, for any links shared from its site. With new public vs. private controls, ...

Change the URL LinkedIn assigned you. When you first set up your profile, or when you finish doing it now, LinkedIn assigned you a custom URL that was a combination of letters and numbers. You don ...

LinkedIn gives you your own URL, so make it a snappy one that looks good on business cards and Twitter bios. Click Edit public profile & URL on the right, then the pen icon next to the current URL ...

Disabling a Shortened URL in LinkedIn. When you use LinkedIn, a professional social networking website, to post updates to your Home or Profile pages, LinkedIn automatically shortens any URL ...

You can select skills that already exist in LinkedIn’s database: Just start typing a skill and LinkedIn will make relevant suggestions. Or, type in a new one. You can list up to 50 skills.