linkedin-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/.