Adding a promotion on LinkedIn takes just a few minutes, but getting it to display correctly requires attention to how you enter dates and company names. When done right, your roles will stack under a single company entry, showing a clear career progression. Here’s how to set it up on both desktop and mobile.
Add a New Position Under the Same Company
LinkedIn doesn’t have a dedicated “promotion” button. Instead, you add a new position and let LinkedIn’s grouping logic connect it to your existing role. On desktop, click the “Me” icon, select “View Profile,” scroll to your Experience section, and click the plus icon to add a new position. On mobile, tap the pencil icon on your profile and navigate to Experience.
When filling in the new position, type the same company name exactly as it appears on your current role. LinkedIn will suggest the company page as you type. Select it from the dropdown rather than typing it manually, because even a small difference (an extra space, a missing “Inc.”) can prevent the roles from grouping together. Enter your new title, the start date, and mark it as your current role. Then go back to your previous position at that company and add an end date.
How Grouped Positions Work
LinkedIn automatically groups positions under one company header when the start date of the new role falls within one month of the previous role’s end date. So if your old title ended March 15 and your new title started April 1, they’ll appear stacked together with a single company name, logo, and a combined duration at the top. Each role shows its own title, date range, and description underneath.
If there’s a gap of more than one month between the end date of one role and the start date of the next, LinkedIn treats them as separate entries. They’ll each get their own company logo and won’t visually connect. If your roles aren’t grouping and you’ve confirmed the company name matches exactly, check that the dates overlap or sit within that one-month window.
You also need to specify an employment type (full-time, part-time, contract, etc.) for each position. LinkedIn uses this field as part of its grouping logic, so leaving it blank can sometimes prevent roles from stacking properly.
Write Descriptions That Highlight Growth
The grouped layout already signals career progression, but your descriptions should reinforce it. For each role, focus on what changed. Your earlier position might emphasize individual contributions and skill development, while your promoted role should highlight expanded scope: larger teams, bigger budgets, new responsibilities, or strategic initiatives you now own.
Keep each description to three or four concise bullet points or a short paragraph. Quantify results where you can. “Managed a team of 12 and grew regional revenue by 30%” communicates more than “Responsible for team management and revenue growth.” The contrast between your two descriptions should make the promotion feel earned and obvious to anyone scanning your profile.
If your title changed but your core work stayed similar, call out what specifically expanded. Maybe you moved from managing one product line to three, or shifted from executing campaigns to setting the strategy behind them. Small distinctions matter when a recruiter is spending 10 seconds deciding whether to reach out.
Update Your Headline and Skills
Your LinkedIn headline doesn’t automatically change when you add a new position. By default, it pulls your most recent title and company, but if you’ve customized your headline at any point, it stays locked to whatever you typed. Go to your profile and manually update it to reflect your new role. This is the single most visible line on your profile since it appears in search results, comments, messages, and connection requests.
A promotion is also a good time to revisit your Skills section. If your new role involves managing people, setting budgets, or working cross-functionally in ways your old role didn’t, add those skills. LinkedIn’s algorithm uses your listed skills to surface your profile in recruiter searches, so keeping them current directly affects your visibility.
Control Who Gets Notified
LinkedIn can broadcast your profile changes to your entire network as a notification, which is great if you want the visibility but awkward if you’re still cleaning up your edits. You control this with a single toggle.
On desktop, go to Settings, then Visibility, and find “Share job changes, education changes, and work anniversaries from profile.” Turn it off before you start editing if you want to make changes quietly, then turn it back on when everything looks polished. On mobile, tap the “Me” icon, then Settings, then Visibility to find the same toggle.
You can also adjust this setting in real time while editing your profile on desktop. A “Share with network” toggle appears in the editing window, so you don’t have to navigate away to change it. If you want your network to celebrate the promotion with you, leave it on. If you’d rather announce it yourself with a dedicated post, turn it off, finalize your profile, and then write a post on your own terms.
Announce It With a Post
A profile update notification is easy to miss in a busy feed. Writing a short post about your promotion gets significantly more engagement and lets you shape the narrative. You don’t need to write an essay. A few sentences covering what you’re stepping into, what you learned in your previous role, and a genuine thank-you to people who helped you along the way tends to perform well.
Tag your company’s page and, if appropriate, the manager or mentor who supported your growth. Tagged posts get wider distribution because they appear in those people’s networks too. Keep the tone authentic rather than boastful. The posts that resonate most acknowledge the team effort behind the achievement, not just the title change.
Fix Roles That Aren’t Grouping Correctly
If your two positions at the same company show up as separate entries instead of stacking together, run through this checklist. First, confirm the company name is identical on both roles by clicking into each one and verifying you selected the same company page from LinkedIn’s dropdown. Second, check that the end date of your old role and the start date of your new role are within one month of each other. Third, make sure both positions have an employment type selected.
If positions are grouped but shouldn’t be (for example, two different subsidiaries that happen to share a parent company name), edit the company name on one of them to separate the entries. LinkedIn groups by company name, so differentiating the names is the simplest fix.