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Verified against Claude · 2026-07-21

Rewrite your LinkedIn About section so it reads as a person, not a resume

Turn disjointed notes or a resume-voice draft into a first-person About section that opens strong before LinkedIn's preview cutoff and reads like it was written by the person, not extracted from a CV.

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The prompt

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Here's what I have now, or rough notes about myself: I have 8 years in B2B marketing. I led demand gen at two startups. I like data-driven growth and building teams..
My role and what I actually focus on: Head of Growth at a seed-stage fintech, focused on organic and lifecycle.
Words or phrases people would search to find someone like me: demand generation, B2B SaaS, lifecycle marketing, fintech.
Who's likely to read this (recruiters, clients, peers): Recruiters sourcing growth leads, and founders considering hiring me.

Rewrite this as a LinkedIn About section, first person, under 2,600 characters (LinkedIn's field limit). Rules:
1. The first 2-3 sentences must work as a complete, compelling summary on their own — LinkedIn shows only roughly the first 300 characters before "...see more," on both the profile and in search results, so don't front-load context that only pays off later.
2. Write like the person is talking, not like a resume summarizing them in third person — no "Jane is a results-driven professional with 10 years of experience."
3. Work in the keywords from demand generation, B2B SaaS, lifecycle marketing, fintech naturally, inside real sentences — not as a bolted-on list of skills at the end.
4. Include one or two specifics (a real number, a real project type, a real turning point) instead of only abstractions like "passionate" or "dedicated."
5. End with one plain sentence saying what you want the reader to do — connect, reach out, view your portfolio — not left implicit.

After the rewrite, give me the character count and confirm it's under 2,600.
Customize the highlighted detailsoptional — the prompt above already works

Why this works

The About field truncates to roughly its first 300 characters in both the profile view and in search result snippets, so an opening line written as throat-clearing ("I've always been passionate about...") burns the only guaranteed-visible real estate the section has. Writing in first person matters because LinkedIn is a social feed, not a CV database — third-person resume voice is the fastest tell that a profile was copy-pasted rather than written for the platform it's on, and LinkedIn's People Search also indexes About-section text, so naturally embedded keywords do double duty as both voice and searchability.

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Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-07-21

ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-07-22

Changelog

  • 2026-07-22 Initial version; added the explicit 300-character opening rule after drafts kept saving the actual point for paragraph two.
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