Profile Studio Improve the content of your LinkedIn® profile: headline, About, experience and search words, from your own facts.

LinkedIn's Help Center describes the headline as the text just below your name, in the introduction section at the top of your profile (see Sources consulted). Lead with the job title you have or want, written the way job postings write it, then add one thing that makes it yours: a focus, two or three skills, or one short proof phrase. Plain words beat slogans, and a title someone would actually type beats a clever one.

Advice This page states no LinkedIn character limit and no limit on how much of a section is shown. The builder counts the characters you typed; it doesn't know LinkedIn's limits.

Illustrative headlines (invented people and details):

• Working now: Accounts Payable Specialist | Vendor reconciliation · Month-end close · SAP
• With a focus: Registered Nurse specializing in pediatric intensive care
• With a proof phrase: Data Analyst | Built a weekly no-show report used by 4 clinic managers
• Student: Nursing student at Example Community College | Seeking a nurse aide role
• Changing careers: Teacher | Moving into instructional design

Our view Skip labels nobody searches for (“guru”, “ninja”, “rockstar”) and adjectives about yourself (“passionate”, “results-driven”): the free checker flags those as filler, and a skill or a result says more.

A simple order: one opening sentence on what you do; who you do it with or for; two or three true results; how you like to work; what you're looking for, if you want to say; and how to reach you. First person (“I”) reads naturally here, unlike on a resume. Keep sentences short and use the words a posting would use for skills you really have.

What to leave out: filler adjectives, results you couldn't explain in a conversation, and a personal phone number or home address.

The builder's About uses only the sentences you type, in that order. See the examples for three finished versions.

Each job on your profile should have the same title, company and dates as on your resume: a reader who sees both should find the same story. In the description, add one sentence of context (what the team or job was), then reuse your resume bullets, strongest first.

Bullets that start with a verb and say what changed read best. If you haven't written them yet, build them in the resume builder first, or check them in the free ATS resume checker, then paste them here.

List skills and tools you have actually used, and make sure each important one shows up somewhere else on your profile: in a bullet, in your About or in a headline. The builder's skills check shows which of your skills aren't backed up anywhere you wrote. To see which skills O*NET rates most important across occupations, use the skills guide; to match the words in a specific posting, read what a keyword is.

We don't know how LinkedIn orders people search results, and this page makes no claim about it. LinkedIn's Help Center says the order differs from one member to another, depending on the search and on who is searching, and that adding more keywords to your profile doesn't automatically improve how it appears in search results (see Sources consulted). What you control is whether the words that truthfully describe you, such as the job title and the skills real postings name, appear on your profile.

Practical steps: read three or four postings for the job you want, note the title and the skills they name, and use the builder's search-word check to see where those words already appear in your draft. Add a word only where it's true, in a sentence that shows it. Repeating a word without evidence doesn't help a human reader.

• Your name, written the way it is on your resume.
• A recent, clear photo of you, if you choose to add one.
• A headline that starts with the job title you have or want, in a posting's words.
• An About section in your own words: what you do, two or three true results, what you're looking for.
• Every job title, company and set of dates the same as on your resume.
• Experience descriptions that reuse your resume bullets, strongest first.
• Skills you have actually used, each one shown somewhere in your experience or About.
• Education, certifications and licences named exactly as issued; a certification is not a licence.
• No unfilled [placeholders], no personal phone number or home address in public text.
• Your profile link in your resume header only if the profile is current.

Student or first job. Lead with what you study and where, then projects, part-time jobs, volunteering and skills you can show. Saying what you're looking for (for example, an internship) is optional and up to you.

Changing careers. Name the move plainly in the headline and the first sentence of your About (“Moving into … from …”), keep every old job title as it was, and choose the results closest to the new field.

Returning after a gap. You don't have to explain a gap on your profile. If you want to, one honest sentence in your own words is enough. Recent courses, volunteering or freelance work can go in their own entries with real dates.

Looking while employed. Leave “what you're looking for” empty if you don't want your search to show; the builder then leaves it out everywhere.

LinkedIn's Help Center says your profile is generally visible to all signed-in LinkedIn members, and that, depending on your settings, a version of it may be visible to people who aren't signed in (see Sources consulted). So keep a personal phone number, home address and date of birth off it, and think twice before naming a current employer if your search is confidential.

This page never sends, stores or uploads what you type: the builder and the check run in your browser, and the download is created on your device. It never contacts LinkedIn, reads your profile or posts anything for you.

Also free: the resume builder, job search emails (recruiter outreach, networking and referral messages), the cover letter builder, interview prep and the skills guide. For more on using a profile in a search, read LinkedIn optimization for job seekers.

Not affiliated. TryHired is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by LinkedIn. “LinkedIn” is a trademark of LinkedIn; this page uses the name only to describe the profile you write there. The builder does not connect to LinkedIn: you copy the text yourself. (see Sources consulted)

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