Work Laz-o: Why Recreating Home at Work Kills Focus and Output We bring our dogs to work. Our kids. Our personal items. We show up in pyjamas. At this point, why don’t we just bring a bed and call it a night? – When the workplace starts looking like home, the brain stays in home […]

Until recently, LinkedIn Skill Assessments gave job seekers a way to validate their expertise with timed, topic-specific quizzes. A passing score in the top 30% earned a badge — a small but visible signal to recruiters that you weren’t just claiming a skill, you proved it.   But as of 2025, LinkedIn Skill Assessments are […]

Did you notice something new(ish) within the LinkedIn system? LinkedIn rolled out skill assessments or quizzes that you can complete and show off your level of comprehension concerning specific skills in your profile. But are these worth completing?

We wrote an update to this topic back in 2017, and that was updated from an article from 2013! Here is a refresher.

So we wrote an article quite some time ago, and felt that we needed to refresh the article, and provide some new information.

A company called Reppler (the company is new and the information should be viewed as entertainment purposes as I am a skeptic when it comes to studies, but none the less an interesting read) proposed that over half of their respondents who reviewed possible candidates, rejected them based on social media information, such as that […]