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LinkedIn profile review
Show up in the recruiter searches you are currently invisible in
This free LinkedIn profile review analyses your profile content and returns headline rewrites, a restructured About section, the keyword gaps for your target role, and a recruiter visibility score. It runs in about 30 seconds and needs no account — you enter an email to see the full report.
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01 / 04
Recruiters search; they do not browse
Most recruiters find candidates by running keyword searches in LinkedIn Recruiter, not by scrolling a feed. That makes your profile a search result before it is a story. If the terms a recruiter would type are not in your headline, About section, and experience, you are not in the result set — regardless of how good your experience is.
Your headline carries disproportionate weight because it is both a ranking factor and the line that decides whether anyone clicks. "Senior Software Engineer" is accurate and generic. A headline that names your specialism, your stack, and the outcome you deliver is searchable and gives a reason to open the profile.
02 / 04
The About section is not a biography
The most common mistake is writing About as a third-person career summary. Only the first two lines are visible before the reader has to click "see more", which means those two lines are doing nearly all the work — and most profiles spend them on a throat-clearing sentence.
This review restructures the section so the first two lines state what you do and who you do it for, then loads the remainder with the keywords and evidence that make you findable and credible. It uses your existing content rather than replacing your voice.
03 / 04
Recruiters search with filters, not adjectives
Recruiters find candidates by running searches: a job title, a location, a skill, sometimes a current or past employer. Those fields are searchable. Words like driven, passionate and results-oriented are not, and they take up the space where a searchable title should be.
That is why the single highest-value edit is usually the headline. If you want to be found for a role, the words for that role have to appear in the fields a search actually reads: the headline, the current job title, and the skills list.
04 / 04
What to fix first, in order
The headline, then the first two lines of your About section, then the bullets under your current role, then your skills, then the photo and banner, and only then posting activity. Each step down that list costs more effort and returns less.
The first two lines of About matter out of proportion to their length, because the rest is hidden behind a click that most visitors never make. Put what you do and who you do it for in those two lines, not your life story in chronological order.
Fair questions.
Copy your headline, About section, experience entries, and skills. The more you include, the more specific the feedback.
It gives you rewritten headline options and a restructured About section that you can apply directly. It works from what you supply rather than inventing experience.
LinkedIn shows a profile strength indicator to you, not to recruiters, and it is not a ranking. This review scores something different: how findable your profile is in the searches recruiters actually run, and how clearly the top of it reads.
Substantially when your role or target changes, and lightly every few months. The headline and the first two lines of About are worth revisiting whenever you start applying, because they are doing most of the work.
The recruiters-only setting is low risk and helps you appear in their searches. The public green banner is a trade-off: it widens reach and signals availability, which some hiring managers read as urgency. If you are employed, the recruiters-only option is usually the better one.
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