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In this article nosotros'll explore how to deal with the people you've invited to connect who have not withal responded.

This is a rewrite of an old article of mine from January, 2017. Changes to the LinkedIn user interface since then take fabricated the original article's graphics and some characteristic descriptions obsolete. I was pleasantly surprised to find that old articles can at present be edited and don't take to be deleted and rewritten. What follows is an update equally of November, 2019.

What tin can you exercise with this information?

• You can only have so many invitations out at one time, waiting for others to respond. If LinkedIn says y'all've hit a limit and they've blocked you from sending out more, you would demand to withdraw some invitations you've made. Y'all can do that from the browser and app pages I'll prove you.
• You discover that some people y'all've invited to connect haven't responded for weeks or months. You might want to write them off as not interested in you, much every bit it may bruise your ego. You tin can withdraw invitations you've made to such people.
• You sent an invitation you didn't intend (total mistake, wrong person for instance). Use this info to withdraw it.

As is often the case with LinkedIn, things work differently between the browser and the app. I'll point those differences out. Screenshots are from Chrome on Windows x and from the Android app.

Where to find the Sent invitations page on a browser

On a browser, the path to the invitations yous accept sent starts at any LinkedIn page topped past the horizontal carte du jour bar. You next click My Network > Come across all # (or Manage) > Sent. Not and then intuitively, the Sent invitations are but found within the Received invitations expanse. It's similar a pantry off a kitchen -- you can't get to it without inbound the kitchen kickoff.

If at that place are no inbound invitations you haven't dealt with, See all [zero] would make no sense, so the path volition be My Network > Manage > Sent.

A click on (1) My Network, leads to a display of inbound invitations. Although they are non of interest here, you have to select their page because the link to the outbound invitations only appears in that location. And then you'd click on (two) which would take you to the Manage invitations/received page. On that page, you'd click on (3) Sent.

Note that the text at step (2) would read Manage if there were no "inbounds" to show.

A click on Sent at pace (iii) in a higher place leads to a screen like the one below (assuming that there are invitations you've sent that remain unanswered).

Note that any personalization y'all added to your invitations will evidence in this view, as opposed to the mobile app which does non show them.

You lot can withdraw invitations one, several, or all at a time, equally seen in the side by side three graphics.

In the in a higher place graphic, you lot can withdraw a unmarried invitation with a single click.

Several invitations can exist withdrawn at once by ticking their boxes and choosing Withdraw in the bluish box.

To withdraw all your outgoing invitations at once, select them all with ane click and click the blueish Withdraw push button. Use with care -- there'due south a Cancel simply no Disengage.

Consequences of withdrawing invitations

• LinkedIn doesn't want y'all inviting, uninviting and re-inviting the same person in quick succession, so you'll become a warning that you cannot reissue an invitation for upward to three weeks after you have withdrawn it. (And so much for ease of re-sending an invitation with a personal note when you didn't add together one the offset time!)

• Once yous withdraw an invitation, there is zilch you can see in your LinkedIn activeness (at least not with a basic membership) to show you ever sent it. If you wanted to keep such information, yous'd have to document information technology offline.

The straight URL to the Manage invitations/Sent page above is https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invitation-manager/sent/ .

Another clue to an invitation unanswered

On the browser, the profile of a person yous have invited but who has not responded will show Pending in the top carte du jour expanse. It will line up with the tools you tin can click, only a click on it does cypher.

Where to discover the Sent invitations management page on mobile

The graphic beneath shows where yous need to tap to see Sent invitations on your smartphone.

Starting at your home feed, step (ane) is to tap on the two-headed icon at the bottom of the screen. That leads to ane of the 2 overlapping views where at that place is either at least 1 inbound invitation waiting for your action -- or none.

Next, a tap on either MANAGE ALL (2a) or SEE ALL <some number> (2b) will bring up the side by side view where RECEIVED has the highlight. Tap SENT at (iii) and yous'll arrive at the desired view: the invitations yous have sent that are waiting for your respondents' actions.

As of this writing (November, 2019), the smartphone app on Android does not evidence which invitations you sent with personal notes and which went without them. (Utilize the browser to see that information.)

Pending status on the app view of a contour

The mobile app works differently from the browser. The LinkedIn app might show you PENDING on the tiptop menu expanse or yous might need to look under [More...] or the three-dotted (ellipsis) tool [...].

Although the graphic in a higher place might suggest information technology, I do not believe that the degree of connection controls whether you lot demand to go to [More than...] / [...] or not. Be prepared to explore.

What'due south happening to the invitations you send?

When you transport a connection invitation to some other LinkedIn fellow member, several things can happen. The other party tin can:

ane.    Have your invitation (they hit the Accept push).

2.    Ignore your invitation (they hit the Ignore button) and finish at that place.

3.    Ignore your invitation and squawk to LinkedIn that they do not know you. This is sometimes called "IDK" meaning the recipient says "I don't know y'all." (You lot don't get any notification of this.)

4.    Reply with a message only not a press of Take or Ignore.

v.    Do nothing, letting your invitation continue to wait. (I don't know of any limit to how long that waiting can go along.)

6.    Non even receive your invitation at all.

Yet another reason to personalize invitations

Detect that for invitations you've sent with personalization, the browser view will testify the text you sent (and the app won't). If some time has gone past and you lot need reminding why you invited the person in the first identify, the record of the note y'all sent can exist a bang-up help, then I encourage you to personalize every invitation you lot send.

Options when you click on the name or photo

• Click on the proper name or motion-picture show of the person yous've invited and you lot'll exist sent to the person'south profile.
• In an earlier version of the Sent Invitations display on the browser, you could hover the mouse on the proper name or photograph and meet a capsule of the profile, including what degree of connection you had (2nd, 3rd, etc.). This feature no longer exists.

What happens to your Sent invitations depends on the receiver'southward response

Remember the six possible results of sending an invitation listed above?

Other party accepts (Case 1): When the recipient of your invitation connects with you, the record of information technology disappears from your Sent invitations list. (In that location would be no bespeak to its remaining -- the work of the invitation is done.) You get a notification that the person has go your connectedness. However, I have seen at to the lowest degree one case where I invited a person to connect, they accepted, but through some glitch, LinkedIn left a Sent invitation showing -- and then I withdrew information technology without harm.

If yous personalized the invitation text, then your Messages list volition have a copy of it, tied to the person yous invited.

Other party chooses Ignore (Case 2): This case is one I know niggling about. I believe that when a person chooses to "Ignore" your invitation, the tape of it is deleted from your Sent listing. I have never received a notification from LinkedIn that "such-and-such person ignored your invitation to connect." To detect whether this had happened, I would have to be keeping an offline list of people I'd invited, and compare it to LinkedIn'south list from time to fourth dimension.

Ignore with I Don't Know (Example iii): If the person you invited makes this choice, you don't get a notification direct; if plenty people answer that fashion, information technology could result in your account beingness restricted -- you could be required to furnish an email accost for each invitation you wish to send. Some refer to this as "being in LinkedIn Jail." In a recent test (November. 2019), I found that the selection to click "I don't know <name of person>" persists on the screen for some time (it used to flash up just briefly).

There used to be an added option where the respondent could mark your invitation as spam, only information technology no longer exists.

Other party responds with a Message and does not Take or Ignore (Case four): The person you invited wants some more information from you earlier accepting. They might accept seen your invitation come in with no personal note and they have no clue why you want to connect or how being connected would benefit either of you lot. In this case, your record of the invitation would stay in the Sent invitations list, as it should, because information technology is however possible for the receiver to accept or "Ignore" it. Do not mistake such a message for the person's accepting of your invitation. If in doubt, bank check whether the degree of connection has gone to "1st."

Don't be offended by such messages. Please understand that many members observe the etiquette of having at to the lowest degree some substitution of intentions at the start of the connection relationship. Unless the other political party prevents non-connected members from doing and so, yous can cull to Follow the other person instead of connecting. Doing that volition add together (some of) their content to your dwelling house-page feed, which might take been all you wanted from them. Look for the "Follow" pick under [More...] on the person's contour.

Other party takes no activeness (Case v): Equally far as I know, an invitation yous send tin can stay in this country in your Sent invitations forever.

Intended receiver never gets the invitation (Case 6): There are situations where you have to supply the e-mail address of the member you want to connect with -- either because the receiver requires it, or you're in "LinkedIn jail." If you make a typo in such an address, LinkedIn will show the invitation as Sent merely the person will never get it. Again, as far as I know, this never "ages off."

This is a security characteristic. If yous could send repeated invitations to a person, giving a different email accost each time, and LinkedIn would tell you lot which addresses were not correct, then information technology would be possible for you to game the system and learn unknown addresses by trial and error. This could explain why there is a 3-calendar week forced interval between withdrawing an invitation and re-sending.

Then if you find that someone has not accustomed your invitation, perhaps they never received information technology at all. With the 3-week interval rule, you tin can't withdraw and immediately re-send. I think y'all'd do well to have a shared connexion intercede for you and request the person to invite you to connect.

Cleaning upwards your Sent invitations list

Withdrawing unanswered invitations subsequently a reasonable time is a adept practice. Since some people are on LinkedIn only seldom, that "reasonable" fourth dimension might exist quite a few months. If y'all trust that LinkedIn is sending the other parties reminder emails now and then for each unanswered invitation, how much "nagging" do you desire them to experience?

Problems with invitations

I've seen an invitation sit in my Sent invitations list but somehow the other party had already accustomed -- I clicked through to the person's profile and saw the 1st icon. These instances are rare, and I chalk them up to glitches in LinkedIn'due south servers.

I have also seen situations where information technology was possible to compose and send an invitation only it would not bear witness in the Sent invitations page. It happened while a co-experimenter and I were investigating disconnections and blocking. Information technology would be a rare result that an invitation you send would not bear witness in the Sent invitations list.

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My request of you

Please like, comment on or share this article as you see fit. I'd savour hearing any reports of the interface not working the way I've seen it so we can learn together.

All my posted manufactures are at this link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidclark/item/recent-activity/posts/ . I concentrate on tips and tricks for using LinkedIn and I hope y'all volition find them useful. Do understand that some articles may be out-of-appointment due to interface changes; now that I know that articles can be revised long after they were published, I'll be cleaning some major ones upwards.

Picture credits

Screenshots made with Microsoft Snipping Tool, some post-processed with MS PowerPoint and Adobe Photoshop Elements. Cover epitome done in PowerPoint.

A few random thoughts about how LinkedIn seems to do things

My experience with researching issues like this one (handling of invitations to connect) have left me with some observations nigh the LinkedIn operating style.

• You accept to know "LinkedIn Speak" to understand the site. For instance, the dictionary definition of ignore is "to refrain from noticing or recognizing." A synonym is "to pass up." If someone received an invitation to connect from you and ignored it, I would expect that they wouldn't give it whatsoever attending -- they'd have washed nothing with information technology -- that'southward Example 5 above. Nevertheless LinkedIn puts an Ignore push up for them to button (Case 2). Information technology could accept read Reject or Decline simply that would be likewise harsh.
• The user interface design changes all the fourth dimension and not in the same manner for anybody at once. People talk about new features "rolling out" to a growing subset of the user base, or a prepare that sometimes disappears when the feature doesn't go worldwide at all. Permit's face information technology folks, nosotros are the software quality assurance team.
• The browser and the app are never in sync. For example to find the Pending state when y'all look at the contour of someone y'all've invited, you might need to drill into [More...] -- or yous might non. On the browser, y'all tin can see any personal notes you sent with your invitations; on the app, y'all can't.

So in the spirit of experimentation, try out the tips and tricks I've described in a higher place, and please allow me know if you find anything not right almost them. Thanks!

--sc

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Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/managing-your-sent-invitations-sid-clark

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