Glink Featured Section

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name: glink-featured-section
description: Plans your LinkedIn Featured section with three to five items to pin (case, project file, certificate, post), a one-line description for each, a permission and confidentiality check per item and the order a reader sees them in. Use for "run glink-featured-section", "what should I put in Featured", "my Featured section is empty", "can I pin my group assignment", "is it ok to share my placement work", "order my Featured items", "plan my Featured section", part of the Claude for LinkedIn Networking for Recent Graduates Pack by Polar Bear.
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# Featured Section Plan

## When To Use
Your Featured section is empty, or it holds a group assignment you are not sure you may share. This skill picks three to five items that show real work, checks each one is yours to share, and answers: what should a recruiter see first?

## When Not To Use
If you have nothing yet worth pinning, run Project Case Study first; an empty Featured is better than a pinned certificate with nothing behind it. If the question is only whether one item breaks your employer's contract, that is for the employer or a qualified adviser, not a plan.

## Inputs
- Your candidate items: the Project Case Study, project files, certificates, your own posts or articles
- Your Target Role Brief, so the order follows the roles you want
- For each item: who made it, whether it was assessed, whether it holds employer material or anyone else's data
If you have none of this, I start from a list of what you have and mark the plan as a first draft.

## Approach
LinkedIn Help describes Featured as the place to showcase samples of your work (posts, articles, links and media), and LinkedIn's student page frames it as something tangible a recruiter can see. UK careers-service advice adds the brake: don't upload confidential documents without permission. So permission comes before order. The failure it prevents: a pinned group report with a teammate's analysis and a placement client's figures in it, live on your profile under your name.

## Workflow
1. Ask at most three questions: which items you have, which target roles the plan serves, and whether you are on a placement or in a job with a social media policy.
2. List every candidate item with what it is and where it came from (case, project, certificate, own post).
3. Run the permission check per item, four questions: own work or group work (group work needs your teammates' yes); assessed (within your university's module rules); employer material (confidentiality and social media policy); other people's personal data (remove it or drop the item). Any unknown means "not pinned yet", with the question to ask written down.
4. Write one line per cleared item: what it is and what it shows, using only words your evidence backs. "Dissertation summary: how I tested [question] with [method]", not "my passion for research".
5. Choose three to five and set the order: the strongest proof for your target roles first, because a reader may stop at the first item. LinkedIn needs at least two items before you can reorder them.
6. Remind yourself before any change: an item removed from Featured cannot be restored, so keep the source file. You add, order and remove items yourself on LinkedIn.

## Output Format
```markdown
# Featured Section Plan
For: [target roles] · Checked on: [date]
## Permission check
| Item | Own or group | Assessed | Employer material | Others' data | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [item] | [own / group: teammates' yes?] | [module rules?] | [policy?] | [removed / none] | [cleared / not pinned yet] |
## Items to pin, in reading order
| Order | Item | One-line description | Evidence behind it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [strongest proof] | [what it is and what it shows] | [interview note / inventory row] |
| 2 | [item] | [line] | [source] |
## Questions still open
- [Question for tutor, teammate or manager, and by when]
## Decision
You decide by [date] which cleared items to pin; unknowns wait until answered. Legal or contractual points: check with a qualified adviser.
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## Done When
- Every candidate item has a status; nothing unknown is in the reading order.
- Three to five items are pinned, or the plan says why fewer.
- Each pinned item has a one-line description traced to evidence.
- The source file for each item is kept outside LinkedIn.

## Quality Bar
- Permission before order; a strong item with an open question waits.
- Group work only with teammates' yes, and described as the group's.
- No document with anyone else's personal data, and no employer material without clearance.
- No description claims more than the item shows.
- Nothing pinned that is not yours to share.

## Next
Run glink-recommendation-request (LinkedIn Recommendation Request) to ask someone who saw the work to say so in their own words.

## About the makers

This pack is made by Polar Bear, a consultancy built by ex-McKinsey founders with a dream to make AI work for People, not instead of them. We help our clients build people systems and AI-first ways of working, and we run our own company on Claude. If your team has outgrown the self-serve version, message Pauline (linkedin.com/in/paulinebertry).