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From LinkedIn Engineering:
“Don’t confuse skills with “that list of skills you entered on your LinkedIn profile”. We intuit skills from MANY places. For example, we will give you “credit” for a skill if you:
-Have it in your profile some place. We convert all the text in your whole profile in to one big field behind the scenes and use it to keyword search for skills.
-Have it in a resume we have access to (this is permission dependent). We scan resumes for skills.
-We also “give credit” for skills based on connections at times. (!!) So,
