STAR. Start here. Your first week, step by step.
You are a Specialist in Talent Acquisition and Retention, a STAR member of The British Institute of Recruiters. Two things now belong to you. Your verification page, published by BIOR from the live record, which a hiring manager or a candidate can open in a minute. And the STAR letters and mark. The six steps below put both where people look. Have your membership number to hand; it is in your welcome email and on your dashboard, and your page is ior.org/verify/ followed by it.
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Find your page and your badge 1 minute
Log in and open your dashboard. The panel called Your listing and your LinkedIn credential shows your verification page link, the one-click LinkedIn button and the live badge for your email signature. Open your page once and read it. It is what everyone who checks you sees.
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Add STAR to your LinkedIn profile, one click 1 minute
On that panel press Add to LinkedIn. LinkedIn opens with the entry already filled in, the name, STAR as the issuer with the STAR mark, your membership number and your page as the credential link. Under Issue date choose the month you joined. Press Save.
Open the one-click on my dashboard
The button is personal to you, which is why it lives on your dashboard and not on this page.
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Tell your network 1 minute
If LinkedIn offers to share your new credential with your network, say yes. If it does not, post one line yourself, in your own words, and end it with your page address. That post is the one time your whole network sees the badge; after that it lives on your profile.
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Put STAR after your surname 1 minute
On your profile, click the pencil at the top right of your name card to edit your intro. In the Last name box add a space and STAR, so Smith becomes Smith STAR. Save. LinkedIn's own help page describes this as the way to show a credential in your name, and your name is read on every post, every comment, every search result and every connection request.
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Feature your page 2 minutes
On your profile press Add profile section, then Recommended, then Add featured, then the plus sign, then Add a link. Paste your page address and save. It becomes the one badge near the top of your profile that a visitor can click, and it opens the page that says what STAR means.
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Your email signature 2 minutes
Back on your dashboard, the Your live badge panel gives you the badge image with its link, ready to paste into your email signature. The badge draws itself from your record each time it is shown, so it is proof, not a picture.
In your first fortnight
The assessment. About 45 minutes, from your dashboard, at your own pace; it saves as you go. It tests your hiring process against UK employment and recruitment law and the BIOR Code. When you pass, your page reads STAR Certified with the dates, your badge shows the Certified mark, and one click adds the Certified entry to LinkedIn. Start it from your dashboard.
The STAR shelf. Ten documents written for the in-house desk, in your library, ready to use the same day. Start with the Hiring Manager Brief Pack and the Interview Question Bank. Open the library.
Hiring as a team? STAR Team puts the whole talent acquisition team on one invoice, every person a STAR member with a page like yours. See STAR Team.
Stuck on any step? Email support@ior.org or call 0161 232 0991 and we will walk you through it.
Written by The BIOR Membership Team. Last reviewed 16 October 2026.