Write a LinkedIn headline that says what you do
The headline is the line that appears next to your name in LinkedIn search results, comments and messages, and LinkedIn cuts it at 220 characters. Left alone, it repeats your current job title. Enter your role, your years of experience, three strengths and what you want next. You get three headlines with a character count that updates as you type, and a short About paragraph to edit. These are fill-in templates, not AI.
Separate them with commas.
Finish the sentence “I am now looking for …”.
A full sentence starting with “I”. It goes into the About text.
Private The texts are assembled inside your browser and are never sent to LinkedIn or anywhere else. What you type is kept only in this browser so the page remembers it; “Clear” erases it.
Headline 1
Headline 2
Headline 3
About paragraph
How the headlines and the About text are built
- Keywords: your title and your strengths separated by bars, the form that is quickest to scan in a list of search results.
- One sentence: your title, your years of experience and your strengths as a plain sentence.
- What you want next: your title, your strengths and “Open to …” with the goal you typed.
LinkedIn allows 220 characters in a headline and 2,600 in the About section. The count under each text updates as you type. A headline that would run over the limit loses strengths from the end until it fits, and is cut at a word only as a last resort. Variants that come out identical are shown once.
The About paragraph is built from the same fields in a fixed order: who you are, your strengths, one result, what you are looking for, how to reach you. It is a starting point of a few sentences, so add the story only you can tell. No AI is involved, and nothing is sent to LinkedIn or anywhere else.
Questions about the linkedIn headline and About builder
How long can a LinkedIn headline be?
220 characters, including spaces. The builder counts the characters of each variant as you type and keeps every variant inside the limit.
What should a LinkedIn headline say?
Your role and what you are good at, in words a recruiter would type into search: the job title, two or three skills or fields and, if you are looking, what you are open to. “Open to work” alone says nothing about what you do.
How long should the About section be?
LinkedIn accepts up to 2,600 characters, but only the opening lines show before a reader has to click “see more”. Put what you do and for whom in the first two sentences; the builder’s paragraph starts with exactly that.
Will these headlines get me more profile views?
This page cannot promise that. It gives you three clear ways to say what you do inside LinkedIn’s limit. How often a profile is found also depends on your experience, your network and what recruiters search for.
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