Verified against ChatGPT · 2026-08-10
Rewrite a LinkedIn headline and About section so it answers 'why should I care' instead of listing your job title
Rewrites your LinkedIn headline (the 220-character line under your name) and About section around what you help someone accomplish, using your actual title and results as evidence rather than the sentence's subject.
The prompt
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Rewrite my LinkedIn headline and About section. Most headlines are just a job title and company name, which wastes the one line of text that shows up next to my name in every comment, search result, and connection request — I want it to say something a stranger would actually read.
CURRENT TITLE AND COMPANY
Senior Product Manager at a mid-size fintech company.
WHO I ACTUALLY HELP AND HOW
I help fintech product teams cut feature-launch cycle time by fixing broken handoffs between design and engineering.
A REAL RESULT OR NUMBER I CAN POINT TO
Cut our average feature ship time from 11 weeks to 6 weeks over 2 quarters.
WHO IS READING MY PROFILE (recruiters, prospects, peers?)
Mostly other PMs and engineering leads at fintech startups, occasionally recruiters for VP Product roles.
HOW I WANT TO SOUND
Direct and plain-spoken, comfortable being specific about numbers, not overly formal.
HEADLINE RULES
Write 3 headline options, each under 220 characters. Each must lead with what I help someone do or the outcome I create, with my title as supporting context, not the reverse — "Helping [who] do [what]" earns more attention in a search result or comment thread than "[Title] at [Company]" does, because the latter only means something to someone who already knows what the title implies. Do not stack multiple unrelated credentials with pipe characters ("Speaker | Author | Consultant") — pick the single strongest angle for each of the 3 options rather than trying to fit everything into all three.
ABOUT SECTION RULES
Open with a first line that would make sense read completely out of context, since LinkedIn truncates the About section after roughly 2-3 lines before a "see more" — that first line has to work as a standalone hook, not the setup to a sentence that continues below the fold. Write in first person, plain language, sentences a person would actually say out loud, not third-person corporate-bio language ("John is a seasoned professional with 15 years of experience"). Include the proof point I gave you as evidence partway through, not buried at the very end where a reader who didn't click "see more" would never reach it. Close with a specific, low-friction way for the right kind of person to reach out — not a generic "feel free to connect," but something tied to who_i_help.
WHAT NOT TO DO
Do not use the words "passionate," "thought leader," or "results-driven" — they appear in enough bios that they now signal generic rather than credible. Do not invent a credential, number, or outcome I didn't give you.
OUTPUT FORMAT
1. Three headline options.
2. One About section, formatted with the natural line breaks LinkedIn renders (short paragraphs, not one dense block).
3. A one-line note on which headline pairs best with the About section and why.Customize
Optional — swap in your own details for the highlighted parts above.
Why this works
The instruction to lead the headline with outcome rather than title addresses a mechanical fact about where the headline text actually surfaces: LinkedIn renders it beside every comment and in every search-result snippet, contexts where a reader has no other information to interpret a bare title against, so 'Senior Product Manager' communicates almost nothing to a stranger scrolling a comment thread, while an outcome-first phrase is legible with zero prior context — a model given no constraint defaults to title-first because that mirrors the vast majority of existing LinkedIn headlines it was likely exposed to, meaning the unconstrained output would reproduce exactly the pattern this prompt is trying to escape. Requiring the About section's first line to stand alone addresses LinkedIn's actual truncation behavior (roughly 2-3 lines before 'see more'), a UI constraint the model has no way to model unless told explicitly, since without it the model treats the About section as one continuous block of prose where a strong opening sentence can safely set up a payoff two sentences later — which on the actual platform means most readers never see the payoff at all. Banning specific overused words ('passionate,' 'thought leader,' 'results-driven') is a targeted correction rather than a generic 'avoid buzzwords' instruction, because a vague ban leaves the model free to substitute an equally generic synonym; naming the exact phrases removes the model's easiest escape route back to boilerplate professional-bio language, which is its statistically dominant register for this genre of text absent a specific constraint.
What you get back
Headline: "Helping fintech product teams cut feature-launch time in half — Senior PM, ex-11-week to 6-week ship cycles." About (opening): "Two years ago it took my team 11 weeks to ship a single feature. Here's what actually changed that number to 6."
Verified against
ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-08-10
Changelog
- 2026-08-10 — Initial publish, verified against ChatGPT GPT-5.1.
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