Starter Resume skill
LinkedIn profile
Make the LinkedIn profile match the resume.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Housekeeping: custom URL (their name, no digits if free), profile set to visible, resume PDF not uploaded unless they want it public.
---
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"
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