Skills / LinkedIn profile
LinkedIn profile
Make the LinkedIn profile match the resume. Headline, about section, and experience entries, nothing padded. Use when they say "fix my LinkedIn", "set up LinkedIn", or a recruiter will see their profile.
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This is how a session goes, including the fear of looking bare next to everyone else's profile. Click through it.
Scripted example of a real session.
Won't my profile look empty compared to everyone else's?
Short is fine; false is fatal. The skill's rule is that the resume is the source of truth and the profile matches it date for date, because interviewers compare the two. No inflated titles, no endorsement farming, no buzzword about section. If the experience section still comes up thin after an honest pass, that is a resume problem wearing a profile costume, and the fix is building something with a link:
What you end up with
Every section filled in, saved, and confirmed on screen, telling the same story as the resume. Here is what the finished fields look like for someone one semester into building things.
- Custom URL claimed. Their name, no digits, and it goes on the resume header so the two documents point at each other.
- The headline is searchable, plain English. What they are plus what they are looking for. No pipes full of slogans.
- The about section is spoken language. The skill asks what you would tell a stranger at the job itself; the tightened answer becomes these four sentences, approved one by one.
- Experience mirrors the resume exactly. Same dates, same facts, same links. Where the two disagreed, the resume won or got corrected, because interviewers compare them.
Anatomy of a headline
The skill drafts the headline to this shape:
- A What you are right now, in words a recruiter's search would use.
- B What you actually do, backed by the entries below it.
- C What you are looking for, so the right reader knows to message you.
Questions people actually ask
Is this free?
The skill is free, no account, no catch, and a basic LinkedIn profile costs nothing. The agent you paste the skill into may or may not be free: Gemini has the widest free tier, and the free plans of ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot can all run it.
Can it log into LinkedIn and do it for me?
No, by rule. It never handles your password and cannot drive your account. You keep the browser, it drafts each field, you paste the text in and read back what the saved section shows. The whole pass fits in one sitting.
I don't have a resume yet. Can I start with the profile?
No. The resume is the source of truth, and writing a profile from scratch invents. Run build-resume first; the profile session then becomes mostly copying, with each field reworded for the format.
Do I need a photo?
A plain, recent photo of your face helps if you have one. No photo beats a bad one, so the skill never pushes you to upload something blurry, cropped from a group shot, or five years old.
Should I add every skill and collect endorsements?
No. The skills list stays limited to what the profile itself evidences, and endorsement farming is against the skill's rules. A recruiter who sees forty endorsed-by-classmates skills discounts all of them.
Where to go from here
Profile live? Recruiters who find it will look for these next:
Ready to use it? Put the profile to work:
Curious? Read the full skill — the exact instructions your agent gets
---
name: linkedin-profile
category: resume
description: Make the LinkedIn profile match the resume. Headline, about section, and experience entries, nothing padded. Use when they say "fix my LinkedIn", "set up LinkedIn", or a recruiter will see their profile.
---
# linkedin-profile
Help someone set up or repair their LinkedIn profile.
The profile is the resume a recruiter finds without asking, so the
bar is the same: every entry true, consistent with the resume, and
short enough that the real material is visible. You draft field by
field with them; they paste each one in and confirm it saved.
## Ground rules
- The resume is the source of truth. If they have none, run
build-resume first — writing a profile from scratch invents.
- Nothing padded. No inflated titles ("Founder" of a two-person
study group), no skill endorsement farming, no buzzword about
section. A short profile that checks out beats a long one that
does not.
- You cannot log in for them and must not handle their password.
They drive the browser; you draft text and check results by
asking them to read back what the section shows.
- Work section by section at doing-speed — the whole profile is one
sitting.
## Section pass
1. Headline: what they are and what they are looking for, in plain
words. "CS student at Lincoln High building web apps — seeking
summer internship" beats any pipe-separated slogan.
2. About: three or four sentences, first person, in their words.
Ask what they would tell a stranger at the job itself; that
answer, tightened, is the about section. They approve every
sentence.
3. Experience: one entry per resume job or project, same dates,
same facts, same links. LinkedIn allows projects under
Experience or Projects — put anything with a live link where a
recruiter will actually see it. Where entries disagree with the
resume, the resume wins or gets corrected; the two must match
because interviewers compare them.
4. Education, skills, photo: school and dates as on the resume;
skills limited to what the profile itself evidences; a plain,
recent photo of their face if they have one, no photo over a
bad one.
5. Housekeeping: custom URL (their name, no digits if free),
profile set to visible, resume PDF not uploaded unless they
want it public.
## Done
- Headline, about, experience, and education filled in and saved —
they confirmed each on screen
- Profile and resume tell the same story, date for date
- Custom URL claimed and added to the resume header
- Nothing on the profile they could not say to an interviewer
If the experience section came up thin, that is a resume problem
inventing a professional persona — point at build-resume's "thin resume"
path and the skills at https://sphinxstack.com/skills/.