How to Add a Promotion on LinkedIn (and Announce It), Plus 6 Post Examples

To add a promotion on LinkedIn, add your new title as a new position under the same company in your Experience section, then give your old position an end date so LinkedIn groups both roles under one company heading. Decide before you save whether LinkedIn should notify your network. Writing a promotion post is a separate, optional step.

Steps checked on October 14, 2026 against LinkedIn Help: Manage your profile Experience section, Position grouping in your profile's Experience section, Update your current position and Share profile updates. Button labels can vary by app version and language.

If you are joining a different company or changing careers, use the LinkedIn new job announcement guide instead. This page covers moving up where you already work.

How to add a promotion on LinkedIn

A promotion is a new position at the same employer, not an edit to the old one. If you overwrite your old title, your profile loses the step you took. If you add a second position, LinkedIn shows both.

How LinkedIn shows a promotion on your profile

LinkedIn groups positions at the same company automatically in your Experience section. Grouped positions appear under one company heading, in date order, with your total tenure at that company shown. Each title keeps its own dates.

Two rules decide whether the grouping works:

• Dates. Positions are grouped when the new position starts within one month of the previous one. A longer gap splits them into separate entries.
• Company name. Only positions at the same company are grouped, so select the same company on both positions.

LinkedIn's help also suggests setting the employment type on each position to show career progression within a company.

Add the new position on desktop

1. Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage, then View Profile.
2. In your introduction section, click Add profile section.
3. Open the Core dropdown and choose Add position.
4. In the Add experience window, check the Notify network toggle at the top before you type anything (see the next section).
5. Enter your new title, select the same company as your current role, and set the start date to the month the promotion took effect.
6. Click Save.

These steps follow LinkedIn's Experience section help. You can also start from the Edit icon in your introduction section and choose Add new position under Primary position, as described in Update your current position. Either route opens the same Add experience form.

Add the new position on mobile

1. Tap your profile photo, then tap it again to open your profile.
2. Tap Add section.
3. Under Core, tap Add position.
4. Check the Notify network toggle at the top of the Add experience page.
5. Enter the new title, the same company and the start date.
6. Tap Save.

End your old role so the two titles connect

After you save, look at your old position. A role with no end date counts as current, and LinkedIn's help on reordering positions treats every role without an end date as one you still hold. If the old title still shows as current, close it:

1. On desktop, go to the Experience section and click Show all experiences. On mobile, tap the Edit icon in the Experience section.
2. Click or tap the Edit icon next to your old position.
3. Add an end date in the month the promotion started (or the month before), so the new role starts within one month of it.
4. Save.

If the roles still sit apart, check both sets of dates and make sure both positions use the same company.

Update your headline

LinkedIn's help says your headline is usually created when you add a new current position, and that editing the headline does not change the Current line at the top of your profile. If your headline still names your old title, change it: click the Edit icon in your introduction section and edit the Headline field in Edit intro. For ideas, see these LinkedIn headline examples.

Should you notify your network about a promotion?

The Share profile updates setting covers job changes, promotions, education changes and work anniversaries. When it is on, LinkedIn may generate a post in your network's feed, an in-app notification or an email. You have two places to control it:

• For this one change: the Notify network toggle at the top of the Add experience form. Some LinkedIn pages call it Share with network.
• For all profile edits: Me > Settings & Privacy > Visibility > Share profile updates, switched On or Off.

A few things to know before you choose:

• Job updates may take up to two hours to be shared.
• You can see the generated update in the Recent Activity section of your profile. It does not appear in your Posts tab, and LinkedIn deletes these automatic posts, with their comments and reactions, after 90 days.
• Turning notifications off does not hide anything. Anyone who views your profile sees your edits as soon as you save them.
• Editing or deleting the position after adding it may affect whether the notification is generated, so get the title and dates right before you save.

Leave it on if the promotion is official and you are happy for people to congratulate you. Switch it off if the change is not announced internally yet, if you plan to write your own post and do not want two updates landing together, or if you are cleaning up old dates and do not want a fresh notice to go out.

How to announce a promotion on LinkedIn with a post

The automatic update only says you started a new position. A post lets you say what actually changes. Before you write, check that your manager and team know, and that the company has announced the change internally. Nobody should learn about their new boss from the feed.

To publish, click Start a post on desktop, or tap Post on mobile. The Post and share updates help page lists a Celebrate icon in the desktop composer for marking an occasion, and on mobile a Celebration option under the Plus icon. Click your name dropdown on desktop, or the Anyone dropdown on mobile, to choose Anyone or Connections only. A plain text post is fine if you prefer it.

A structure that keeps it short:

1. The change, in one line. Old title to new title, at the same company.
2. What is different now. One sentence on the new scope, team or problem.
3. Thanks, kept specific. Two or three people and what they did.
4. An optional ask or offer, such as advice from people who have made the same step.

If you mention people with @, LinkedIn says they get email and app notifications of the mention, so only tag people who would be comfortable being named. For a stronger first line, try the LinkedIn hook generator, and for general structure see how to write a LinkedIn post.

6 LinkedIn promotion post examples

These are illustrative templates. Replace every bracket and delete anything that is not true for you.

1. Internal promotion, straightforward

Some news: from [date] I'm [new title] at [company], moving over from [old title].

Day to day that means less [old focus] and more [new focus].

Thank you to [manager] for [specific thing they did], and to [colleague] for [specific help].

2. Promotion to manager

As of this month I'm leading the [team] team at [company] as [new title].

I've been on this team for [time], so I know what a good week looks like for the people on it. My job now is to make more of those weeks happen.

If you've made the move from [old role] to managing your former peers, I'd like to hear the one thing you'd do differently.

3. After a long time in the same company

[Number] years at [company] and a new chapter inside it: I've moved from [old title] to [new title].

I joined to work on [first project or area]. The company and my work have changed a lot since then, and this role is about [new responsibility].

Thanks to [name], who hired me, and [name], who pushed me to go for this.

4. Promotion in a small company or startup

Small team, so here's what this actually means: I'm now [new title], which means I own [area] end to end.

When I started, [short honest detail about the early days]. Now we're [current state, stated plainly].

If you've built [area] at a company our size, I'd like to compare notes.

5. Thanking the team

Some news from [company]: I've been promoted to [new title].

This one belongs to [team] as much as to me. [Name] [specific contribution]. [Name] [specific contribution]. [Name] [specific contribution].

Same team, bigger scope. Back to work on [next priority].

6. Low-key version

Small update: I've moved into the [new title] role at [company]. Still working on [area], now with [new responsibility].

Thanks to everyone who made the last [time] a good stretch.

What to leave out of a promotion announcement

• Salary, level codes and internal grades. They are your employer's business and rarely mean anything outside it.
• Unannounced changes. Reorganizations, departures, new clients or products that are not public yet.
• Anything about the person you replaced or colleagues who were also up for the role.
• A "humbled and honored" opening. Say what changed instead.
• Long tag lists. Tag only the people you thank by name.
• Hashtag stacks. One is plenty if you want one. See do LinkedIn hashtags work.

How to respond to congratulations on LinkedIn

People will comment on your post or on the automatic update. Replying is simple: click or tap Reply below a comment, type your reply and click Reply to post it, as described in Comment on posts and reply to a comment. You can type @ in a reply to mention someone.

What to write back:

1. Short and personal beats one copied line. "Thanks, [name]" is fine. Add a detail when you have one: "Thanks, [name]. Still using the onboarding doc you wrote."
2. Answer real questions properly. If someone asks what the new role covers, give them a sentence.
3. Move longer conversations to messages. A former colleague who wants to catch up deserves more than a comment thread.
4. Reply in batches. You do not need to answer every comment within minutes. Once or twice a day for the first few days is enough.

Draft your promotion post in your own voice

The templates above are a starting point. To get a first draft from your own details, give the LinkedIn post generator (first two drafts free, no signup) your old title, new title, what changes and who you want to thank, then edit the result until it sounds like you. WriteHero, the paid product behind these tools, drafts posts in your voice based on your past LinkedIn posts, if you want that for more than one announcement.