Career & Job Search

Verified against ChatGPT · 2026-08-11

Rewrite your LinkedIn About section so it reads like a person a recruiter would message, not a résumé restated

Turns your background into a first-person About section built around what you actually want your next role to be, structured for the way people actually skim LinkedIn profiles.

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The prompt

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Rewrite my LinkedIn About section. Most About sections just restate the resume in first person — I want mine to actually help someone deciding whether to message me.

CURRENT ABOUT SECTION (if any)
I am a results-driven marketing professional with 8 years of experience in B2B SaaS...

MY BACKGROUND, IN MY OWN WORDS
I've spent the last 6 years figuring out how to make enterprise software demos actually convert, mostly by rebuilding sales decks nobody else wanted to touch.

WHAT I ACTUALLY WANT NEXT
I want to move from individual contributor sales engineering into a role that owns the demo strategy for a whole product line.

WHO I WANT TO READ THIS AND ACT ON IT
Sales engineering directors at mid-size B2B SaaS companies who are hiring, plus former colleagues who might refer me.

Anyone reading a LinkedIn About section is deciding, in the first two lines before the "see more" cutoff, whether to keep reading — so those first two lines have to do real work, not warm up with a generic opening like "I am a results-driven professional with X years of experience."

Structure it like this: open with a specific, concrete statement of what you actually do and for whom, phrased so the first two lines work standalone even if nobody clicks "see more." Follow with 2-3 short paragraphs that give one real example each of the kind of problem you solve, using specifics from my background rather than restating job titles. Close with an explicit, low-friction statement of what you're open to right now, matched to who I said I want reading this — a hiring manager wants different signal than a former colleague deciding whether to refer you internally.

Keep total length under 150 words for the section before "see more" logic typically truncates, and under 400 words total.

WHAT NOT TO DO
Do not use third person. Do not open with your job title as the first words. Do not include a skills list — LinkedIn already has a dedicated Skills section for that, and repeating it here wastes the About section's actual value.

After the rewrite, tell me in one sentence what specific claim in the new version a reader could fact-check against my Experience section below it, and confirm it holds up.

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Optional — swap in your own details for the highlighted parts above.

Why this works

LinkedIn truncates the About section behind a "see more" link after roughly two to three lines on both desktop and mobile, which means the overwhelming majority of profile viewers only ever read that opening fragment — a fact most AI-generated About sections ignore entirely, opening instead with a warm-up sentence ("I am a results-driven professional...") that burns the only guaranteed-visible real estate on a sentence that could apply to almost anyone. Instructing the model to make the first two lines work as a standalone unit forces it to front-load the one specific, differentiating claim rather than treating the opening as throat-clearing before the "real" content later in the section that most readers will never scroll to see. The instruction to match the closing call-to-action to a specific named reader — a hiring manager versus a former colleague considering a referral — matters because those two readers are looking for structurally different signals: a hiring manager wants a checkable statement of what you're open to and roughly when, while a colleague considering a referral wants enough specificity to know which of their own contacts to mention you to, and a single generic "open to new opportunities" line serves neither well. The closing fact-check instruction addresses a subtler risk: a rewritten About section that reads compellingly can drift into a claim that isn't quite supported by what's actually listed in the Experience section beneath it, and a profile viewer who scrolls down expecting the About section's claim to be substantiated and finds a mismatch loses trust in the whole profile — catching that gap before publishing is cheaper than fixing it after a recruiter has already formed the impression.

What you get back

"I make enterprise software demos actually convert — usually by rebuilding the deck nobody else wanted to touch. Six years doing this at [Company/industry], watching where prospects tune out and fixing that specific moment..." Fact-check note: the claim 'six years' should match the total tenure visible in your Experience section below — confirm before publishing.

Verified against

ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-08-11

Changelog

  • 2026-08-11 Initial publish, verified against ChatGPT GPT-5.1.

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