Check your LinkedIn headline and About text
Two parts of a LinkedIn profile are written entirely by you: the headline under your name and the About text. A headline that says only “open to work”, or an About that opens with a slogan, tells a searcher nothing about what you do. Paste both. The page checks the length against LinkedIn’s limits, whether the headline names a role and a field and what the opening of the About says, and it flags buzzwords, capitals and emoji. Each point quotes the part of your text it is about. It works by rules, not AI.
LinkedIn allows 220 characters.
Private Both texts are checked 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.
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Paste your headline and your About text to see what to fix.
What is checked
Headline. Its length against LinkedIn’s limit of 220 characters; whether it contains a job title (a word such as engineer, designer, manager or nurse, from a list of common titles) and at least one more word that says what kind of work it is; whether it says only that you are looking, as in “open to work”; buzzwords; a headline written mostly in capital letters; more than two emoji.
About. Its length against the limit of 2,600 characters, and whether it is under 300. The first 300 characters are treated as the opening that is read before “see more”; LinkedIn shows roughly that much, less on a phone. The opening should say what you do (a job title, or “I” followed by a verb such as build, help or manage) and for whom (words such as clients, teams, companies, patients). Then: first person (“I”, “my”), a number that is not a year, a way to reach you or a clear ask (contact, message, email, “open to”, a link), buzzwords, a phrase of three or more words in capitals, and more than five emoji.
The buzzword list is short and ours: passionate, results-driven, guru, ninja, rockstar, wizard, synergy, thought leader, visionary, team player, self-starter, motivated, innovative, proven track record, outside the box and a few more. Points marked “Fix” and “Check” are counted as things to fix; “Note” is a smaller suggestion. The page reads words and patterns. It cannot judge your photo, your experience entries or whether a claim is true, and an unusual job title may not be on its list.
Questions about the linkedIn profile review
How long can a LinkedIn headline be?
220 characters, including spaces. There is no need to fill them: a job title, a field and two or three skills are enough. The check flags a headline over the limit and notes one under 30 characters.
What is “the opening” of the About section?
LinkedIn shows only the first lines of the About text until a reader clicks “see more”. This page treats the first 300 characters as that opening and checks that they say what you do and for whom, because a reader may never see the rest.
Which words count as buzzwords?
A short list of words that fit any profile and so say little: passionate, results-driven, guru, ninja, synergy, thought leader, team player, proven track record and similar. The fix is the fact behind the word: what you did, for whom, with what result.
Is my profile text sent to LinkedIn or anywhere else?
No. The check runs in your browser on the text you paste. Nothing is uploaded, the page does not connect to LinkedIn, and the Clear button erases what the page remembers.
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