What will happen if you falsify your Linkedin profile?

is it time to go home yet?: What will happen if you falsify your Linkedin profile?
Are there any reprecusions for falsifying information in your Linkedin profile. Specifically employment dates and duties and so on.

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Answer by Aporia
The LinkedIn Police will come out and arrest you.

I’m kidding, it’s not an official database, so lying on there isn’t going to get you in trouble with the law (and no decent employer gives it any more than a cursory glance before they then go officially run your REAL records in a security check). You won’t look very trustworthy, but there are no “official” consequences.

However, when they call your last company for references, they will indeed find out the truth, so… keep that in mind. I would suggest just not filling in that information instead of lying about it.

Answer by ccSteve
Try this article to start.

https://www.linkedinpersonaltrainer.com/2009/10/22/linkedin-profiles-more-accurate/

You can leave specific dates off without much issue – was that march of 1994, or August…

If you clearly change your duties, the people you worked with will know… I’m not sure there are any “laws” that you’d be violating, but is that something you’d be ok with?

If done to you – well, now you know a bit more about the character of the individual.

If done by you – well, now you know that about yourself – and so do the people that could tell the difference…

steve