# LinkedIn New Job Announcement Generator Pick what happened, fill in a few short fields and get a draft written from them. Read it over before you post. It handles promotions, graduations, work anniversaries, certifications, layoffs and last days too. ## How to announce a new job on LinkedIn Four steps, in this order. The post is the third. 1. **Add the position to your profile**. Add the role under Experience and mark it as current. When you edit from a computer, LinkedIn shows a toggle for sharing the change with your network. Switch it off if you'd rather announce it in your own words than have LinkedIn send its own update first. 2. **Update your headline**. Your headline follows you into every comment and search result, so change it before people come looking. Say the new role and what you do in it. 3. **Write the post**. The news in the first line, then what the work is, a thank-you to someone by name, and what you'd like to hear about. The generator above drafts it from a few fields. 4. **Post it and answer the comments**. The congratulations arrive over the first day or two. Reply to them. The people who took the time to write are the ones worth staying in touch with. For step two, the [headline generator](/tools/linkedin-headline-generator) gives you options to start from. [LinkedIn's Help page on sharing profile updates](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a529062/share-profile-updates-with-your-network) explains the toggle in step one. ## When to announce a new job on LinkedIn Most advice says to wait. How long depends on what could still go wrong, and that changes as you go. 1. **The offer is signed**. Tell the people who need to know and nobody else yet. Your current manager should hear it from you, not from the feed. 2. **Your last day at the old job**. Optional. A short goodbye post thanks the people you worked with while the work is still fresh. Pick Last day in the generator to write one. 3. **Day one**. Update the position on your profile. Hold the post for now. 4. **One to two weeks in**. Post it. By now you know what the job involves, so you have something to say besides the title. 5. **The days after**. Reply to the comments and thank the people who messaged you. You'll also hear that you should wait 90 days, until probation is over. What that guards against is an offer falling through or a role changing shape before you start, and most of that is behind you once you're in the door. So the generator asks whether you've started. If you haven't, it suggests holding the post, and writes in the future tense if you want a draft ready anyway. ## What to put in a new job announcement Four parts, a sentence or two each. Keep them in this order. ### The news The role and the company in the first line, where a phone shows it before the see more cut. "I've joined Northwind as a product designer" does the whole job. Nobody needs to hear how you feel about it before they hear what it is. ### The work One or two sentences on what you'll be doing. "Rebuilding the checkout flow" tells people what to ask you about. "A great opportunity to drive impact" tells them nothing. ### A specific thank-you Name one or two people and say what they did: who referred you, who took the reference call, who talked you into applying. Tag them when you paste it in. Thanks with no names in it reads like a form letter. ### A forward close End on what you'd like to hear about or who you'd like to meet. It gives people something to reply to besides "Congrats!" ### What to leave out The stock opener about how thrilled or humbled you are, the book metaphors, a roll call of twenty tags, and any detail you'd have to guess at. If you don't know your team size yet, don't write one down. The generator is told to leave all of these out, but read the draft before you post it. ## How to announce a promotion on LinkedIn On your profile, end the old role and add the new title as a new position at the same company, instead of editing the old one. [LinkedIn groups roles at one company](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a548226) under a single heading when both link to the same company page and the new one starts within a month of the old one ending, so your history shows the move rather than erasing the job you were promoted from. The post is different from a new job post. You aren't joining anything, so the news is the title. Credit the people who backed you, by name. Then say what changes in the work: who you lead now, what you own, what you hand off. **A promotion post to fill in:** ```text I've been promoted to [new title] at [company]. For the last [time] I've been [what you did in the old role]. Now I'll be [what changes]. [Name] made this possible by [one thing they did]. Thank you. If you're [who you'd like to hear from], I'd like to hear from you. ``` ### Is it okay to post about a promotion? Yes. People are glad to hear it, and it tells them what you do now. Credit the people who helped and say what the new job involves, and it won't read as a victory lap. If your company hasn't announced it internally yet, wait until it has. ## New job announcement templates by situation Fill in the brackets and cut whatever doesn't fit. They're starting points, so change the wording until it sounds like you. The generator above writes a version from your details with no blanks left in it. ### Your first job ```text I've started as a [role] at [company]. It's my first full-time job after [degree] at [school], and I'll be working on [what you'll actually do]. Thank you to [name], who [one thing they did]. If you work on [topic], I'd like to learn from you. ``` ### A career change ```text After [number] years in [old field], I've joined [company] as a [role]. The switch took [what it took: a course, a side project, a lot of coffee chats]. [Name] was the first person to take it seriously. I'll be working on [what you'll do]. If you've made a similar move, I'd like to hear what you wish you'd known. ``` ### An internal move ```text I've moved to [new team] at [company], as [role]. After [time] on [old team], I'll be [what changes in the work]. Thanks to [name] for [one thing they did], and to [name] for making the move easy. ``` ### Back after a layoff ```text I've joined [company] as a [role]. [Number] months ago I was laid off from [old company]. Thank you to everyone who sent a lead, a referral or a kind message in that time, and especially [name], who [one thing they did]. I'll be working on [what you'll do]. ``` ### A remote role ```text I've joined [company] as a [role], working remotely from [city]. The team is spread across [places], and I'll be [what you'll do]. If you're in [city] and work on [topic], say hello. ``` ## Graduation, work anniversary, certification, layoff and last-day posts Same rules as a new job post: news first, specifics instead of adjectives, and names in the thank-yous. Only the news is different. ### Graduation posts Lead with the program and the school, then one thing you'll take from it: a project, a person, a skill you didn't have going in. Thank a supervisor or a family member by name if they earned it. If you're looking for work, say what kind, plainly. That line does more for you than the congratulations will. ### Work anniversary posts Does LinkedIn announce it for you? If you share profile updates with your network, LinkedIn can notify your connections of a work anniversary, and its [Help page on profile updates](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a529062/share-profile-updates-with-your-network) says those notifications go out within the anniversary month. Your own post is where you add something: one thing you built or learned in those years. Skip the retrospective. ### Certification posts Name the certification and who issued it, then why you took it and what you'll use it for. Claim no more expertise than the certificate does. To add one without posting about it, put it in the Licenses & certifications section of your profile; writing a post is a separate step. If you don't want LinkedIn sharing anything automatically, switch off Share profile updates in your visibility settings first. ### Layoff posts Say it plainly in the first line, naming the company or not, as you prefer. Stay warm and skip the spin: nobody believes it's a blessing in disguise in the first week, and a post that says so reads as bravado. Then say what you're proud of and exactly what you're looking for. If you're open to work, say so in one line. Tick the open-to-work box in the generator and it adds that line. ### Last-day posts Keep it to what you're proud of and who you'll miss working with, by name. Leave the reasons for leaving out. Your old team and your next employer read a goodbye post at the same time, so write it for both. Say what's next only if it's settled. ## Real LinkedIn announcement posts, taken apart Three announcements from founders, from our swipe file. None of them is a standard new job post, and that's why they're here: each does one thing you can borrow and one you probably shouldn't. ### Kunal Shah *Head - WhatsApp, Founder - CRED, curious.* - [profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunalshah1/) - 2026-06-22 - 43,382 reactions, 1,799 comments, 555 reposts > It's been a minute. > > 2015-2018 > - Exited FreeCharge. Spent time learning and investing. > - Pondered about: Why can't trust be rewarded? Started with $1M of personal capital. > - Launched CRED to reward people for paying credit card bills on time. > > 2019-2025 > - Built a system run by a team that values ownership, judgment, and craft. > - Grew from 0 to 17M members by aligning incentives with behaviour. > - Built several products during COVID lockdowns. > - Raised $900M+ from global investors. Did 4 ESOP buybacks. > - Made Indiranagar and IPL ads slightly more interesting. > - Received a full stack of regulatory licences. > - Lost 35 kilos. > - Scaled from 0 to ~$325M ( ~INR 3,200 crore) in annual revenue across payments, lending, insurance, commerce, wealth, and credit cards. > 2026 > - First profitable quarter (yet occasionally asked what our business model is) > - Raised another $900M from Meta in primary and secondary capital. > - Announcing our 5th ESOP buyback. > > Today > > CRED is ready for its next phase. I am stepping back and Miten Sampat steps in as interim CEO, partnered with an incredibly talented team. He has been heading strategy and finance and suffering me since 2020. I'm stepping away from the operating role and will continue as a shareholder. My commitment doesn't change. Just the role. > > Extremely grateful to our members, partners, regulators, and investors who made this possible. And to our board, Shailendra, Micky, Saurabh for their extraordinary conviction. > > Team CRED, I'll still expect you to be a 10x version of yourselves. > > As for me, I'll be joining Meta to lead WhatsApp globally. > > Meta comes in as a minority investor in CRED. No access to member data. > > While it's come very far, the delta between WhatsApp today and its full potential is massive. I look forward to working with Mark, Chris, and the leadership across Meta for the next step in WhatsApp's journey. Will, thank you for scaling something the world relies on quietly, and for making this transition smooth. > > Onwards. > > [View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kunalshah1_its-been-a-minute-20152018-exited-activity-7474808965646790657-veit) **Why this works:** Before the news that he's stepping back from CRED to lead WhatsApp, he gives a dated timeline full of specifics, down to "Lost 35 kilos." Dry asides like "yet occasionally asked what our business model is" stop a big announcement from reading like a press release. **What to take from it:** Borrow the specific, dated detail. But put your news first: his role change sits under a long timeline, which only works when you're famous enough that people keep reading. ### Dharmesh Shah *Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Helping millions grow better.* - [profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharmesh/) - 2026-06-09 - 3,747 reactions, 296 comments, 94 reposts > Woo hoo! HubSpot turns 20 years old today! > > Brian Halligan and I "officially" founded HubSpot on June 9th, 2006. > > That date is not arbitrary. It was picked for a reason. More on that in a little bit... > > First, fun story: HubSpot was the company I was never supposed to start. I had promised my wife that I wasn't going to do another startup. We had met before I ever started my first company at a time when nobody believed (including me) that I had what it took to be an entrepreneur. I was working as a software developer in Birmingham, Alabama and starting a company was not at all on my mind. > > I ran that first company as founder/CEO for over a decade before selling it for a life-changing amount of money. I decided to go to grad school and was thrilled that I got accepted into MIT (it had always been a dream of mine). > > That's where I met Brian. One thing led to another and we figured out that we were both passionate about SMBs and decided to start a company together that focused on them. So, I convinced my wife to release me from my promise. But, I did want to make sure I finished up my graduate program (I had a graduate paper to submit in order to earn my degree). > > On Friday June 9th, 2006, I graduated with a M.S. in the Management of Technology (a weird degree that is very much MIT). That degree is no longer offered and I was the last person to graduate with it. > > So, the day of my graduation, June 9th, 2006 we officially started HubSpot. We were off to the races! > > That was twenty years ago today. > > So many great memories over those years. > > I'd like to thank my wife Kirsten. If she had not agreed to let me start another startup, HubSpot would not exist. > > We started with 3 customers in those early days (including my wife - who is still a paying customer) and now we have over 300,000. I am deeply grateful to our customers - past and present. You are the reason we started the company and you are the reason we continue to work hard. Our core tenet of HubSpot culture is to Solve For The Customer. > > I'm grateful to the thousands of HubSpot solutions partners and technology partners. Without you, HubSpot would not be the platform and ecosystem it is today. Thanks for helping us Solve For The Customer. > > And last but not least, I'm grateful to all the HubSpotters past and present. I'm not known to be a "people person" but the truth is that HubSpot could not have become the company it is without you and it has given me great joy to see so many of you learn, develop and grow at HubSpot. Thank you. > > I honestly have never had more fun and been more excited for the future than I am right now. With the leadership of Yamini Rangan we are writing the next chapter of HubSpot. The agentic customer platform chapter. > > Sorry for the self-indulgent post. Will save the "lessons learned" topic for another time. > > Thanks for your support. > > Cheers. > > [View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dharmesh_woo-hoo-hubspot-turns-20-years-old-today-activity-7470149851733803008-XgSk) **Why this works:** He tells HubSpot's 20th birthday as an origin story, with a promise to his wife that he wouldn't do another startup and a founding date chosen because it was his MIT graduation day. Most of what follows is thanks to his wife, customers, partners and HubSpotters, with no product pitch. **What to take from it:** Borrow the thank-yous. Each one says who it's for and why, starting with his wife, who let him out of a promise. ### Dave Gerhardt *Founder of Exit Five. Former CMO. Author: Founder Brand.* - [profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegerhardt/) - 2024-11-08 - 7,042 reactions, 354 comments, 65 reposts > I went from marketing manager to CMO in 4 years (and lost all of my hair in the process). > > I learned an incredible amount about marketing and management during that time and decided to document some of my top lessons. > > Want to see those lessons? > > You can. Right now. We added this resource to Exit Five (for free). > > 1. Join the Exit Five email list right now > 2. You'll get an email back with beautiful deck and those 16 lessons right to your inbox > 3. You'll also get our weekly newsletter that's jam packed with tips to help you get smarter about B2B marketing > > Here's a glimpse at the 16 lessons I share in the deck: > > 1. Forget acronyms > 2. The story is the strategy > 3. Think hard about "offers" > 4. Push your team past incremental thinking > 5. Get on the same page as sales > 6. Don't "be" finance and ops...partner with them > 7. Master internal communication > 8. Articulate the strategy > 9. Think short-and-long-term > 10. Understand what the CEO cares about > 11. Make hiring your job, not a side project > 12. Create your own momentum > 13. Your job is to get the job done > 14. But do the job first, before hiring externally > 15. Get comfortable making bets without perfect data > 16. Spend the budget (all of it) > > Go to: tinyurl.com/459ny97s > > [View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davegerhardt_i-went-from-marketing-manager-to-cmo-in-4-activity-7260618312588431364-98tz) **Why this works:** The hook, "marketing manager to CMO in 4 years (and lost all of my hair in the process)," pokes fun at himself before offering a free deck that takes three steps to get. All 16 lesson titles appear in the post, so readers who never sign up still leave with something. **What to take from it:** Borrow the one-line career arc that makes fun of himself. Skip the email-gated offer: that part is marketing, not an announcement. [See every announcement post in the swipe file](/posts/linkedin-post-examples#announcement) ## Should your announcement have a photo? Yes, if it's a real one: your first-day desk, the badge, the team at lunch. A stock photo of a handshake reads like an ad. Square and portrait crops take up more of a phone screen than landscape ones, so crop for the phone and check it there before you post. No recent photo of yourself? The [headshot generator](/tools/linkedin-headshot-generator) turns one photo into a clean profile shot. The [post preview](/tools/linkedin-post-preview) shows where your text gets cut on a phone before you publish. ## Frequently asked questions ### How do I announce a new job on LinkedIn? Add the position to your profile, update your headline, then write a short post: the role and company in the first line, what you'll be doing, a thank-you to someone by name, and what you'd like to hear about. Post it a week or two after you start, and reply to the comments. ### How long should you wait before posting your new job? Until you've started, and ideally a week or two in. Offers can fall through before day one, and once you're in you know enough about the work to say something real. Some people wait until probation is over, but nothing says you have to. ### What should I write in a new job post? The news, the work, a specific thank-you and a forward close, in that order, and a few short paragraphs at most. Leave out the stock openers and any detail you'd have to guess at, like your team size or a start date you haven't confirmed. ### Is it cringe to post about a new job? Not if it's short and says something. The cringe comes from the template: the gushing opener, the vague gratitude, the paragraph about growth. A few plain sentences about the work and the people who helped just read as news. ### Should I turn off "notify network" when I add a new position? Turn it off if you're going to write your own post, so your network doesn't get LinkedIn's automatic update first. LinkedIn's [Help page on sharing profile updates](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a529062/share-profile-updates-with-your-network) says you can switch sharing on or off under Visibility in your settings, or with the toggle on the form when you edit your profile from a computer, and that job updates can take up to two hours to reach your network. ### How do I announce a promotion within the same company? Add the new title as a new position under the same company, so your profile shows the move. Then post: the new title first, what changes in the work, and a thank-you to the people who backed you, by name. Pick Promotion in the generator above and it writes that shape. ### What should I write in a LinkedIn graduation post? The degree and the school, one real thing you're taking from it, and what you're looking for next if you're job hunting. Thank a supervisor, a teacher or a family member by name if they earned it. Keep it short: people want the news, not the transcript. ### Should I name my old company in a layoff post? You don't have to. Naming them tells recruiters where you worked and what you did there, which helps if you're looking. Leaving them out is fine if it's still raw, or if the terms of your exit ask for discretion, which is why the Company field is optional when you pick Laid off. Either way, keep it factual and leave out blame. ### Is this announcement generator free? Yes, with no signup and no email. Each visitor gets 5 drafts a day. Write another version counts as one, and so does a draft that fails our checks and isn't shown. Oiti doesn't save what you type or the draft. Your details go to the AI model to write the post, and they aren't used to train it. ## More free LinkedIn tools For the rest of the job change. All free, no account needed. - [LinkedIn Headline Generator](/tools/linkedin-headline-generator): Changed jobs? Your headline should say so before the post does. - [LinkedIn Summary Generator](/tools/linkedin-summary-generator): Rewrite your About section for the new role. - [LinkedIn Recommendation Generator](/tools/linkedin-recommendation-generator): Thank your old manager properly, in about 90 words. - [LinkedIn Headshot Generator](/tools/linkedin-headshot-generator): A clean profile photo from one picture, for the new badge and the new profile. - [LinkedIn Post Preview](/tools/linkedin-post-preview): See where the see more cut lands on a phone before you post. - [LinkedIn Post Generator](/tools/linkedin-post-generator): For the posts that aren't announcements. - [LinkedIn post examples](/posts/linkedin-post-examples): Real posts from founders and operators, sorted by style. - [Free LinkedIn tools](/tools): Every free, no-signup LinkedIn tool we build and maintain.