The default LinkedIn "About" section most people leave blank, or fill with a copy of their resume's job titles, is one of the few places on the platform where you can actually say something in your own voice. It's also one of the most skimmed-past, usually because it reads like nobody in particular wrote it.
Steps
- Open LinkedIn Summary Generator and enter your current role, years of experience, and key skills.
- Add one specific, notable achievement — this is what separates a real summary from a job-title list.
- Copy the generated headline and About text into your LinkedIn profile, editing to sound like you.
Headline vs. About — two different jobs
Your headline (the short line under your name) shows up everywhere on LinkedIn — search results, comments, connection requests — often before anyone clicks through to your full profile. It needs to work as a standalone line, not a fragment of a sentence. The About section is where you actually get room to say something: who you are professionally, what you've done, and — often skipped — what you're actually looking for next. Treating them as the same piece of text, just cut short, is why so many headlines are just a job title and nothing else.
What makes a summary worth reading
- Lead with something specific, not a generic "results-driven professional" opener — a real skill, role, or achievement in the first line does more work than an adjective.
- Include one real number or outcome if you have one — it's the difference between a claim and evidence.
- Say what you're actually interested in, if you're open to it — recruiters and connections read the About section specifically looking for this, and a lot of profiles never say it at all.
- Keep it conversational — this is one of the few professional documents where writing the way you'd actually talk about your work reads better than formal resume language.