Use this LinkedIn Profile Summary tool to request a draft for your profile’s About section. Start with your profession and a few accurate career details, then review the wording before publishing it. A useful summary explains your work, the experience behind it and what you want readers to understand about you.
Updated November 7, 2026. This guide reflects the visible form and current source guidance. Generation was not tested for this update.
What belongs in a LinkedIn summary?
Your About section introduces your professional story; it is separate from the headline below your name. LinkedIn’s profile guidance recommends explaining your motivation, mission and skills in concise paragraphs or bullets.
Begin with what you actually do or are preparing to do. Add a relevant example of your work, explain an interest or career direction, and end with an appropriate invitation to connect if you want one. LinkedIn’s summary-writing advice supports first-person language, specific examples, plain wording and readable spacing. You do not need to repeat every entry in your employment history.
How to use the form
- Enter your profession. The required Profession text area shows the example “A software engineer.” You can add concise, verified context in this same field, such as your responsibilities, relevant skills and a career goal.
- Choose Output Language. This required selection determines the language requested for your draft. Review specialized terms and qualification names carefully if writing in another language.
- Check Writing model and availability. Read the current options and request allowance shown on the page. A displayed model choice does not establish that a request will succeed.
- Select Generate when available. If a draft is returned, treat it as editable wording. Correct unsupported details and rewrite anything that does not sound like you.
The current form has no separate experience, achievements, skills, tone, length or upload controls. Prepare your facts in the Profession field rather than looking for additional boxes. The visible form does not provide a LinkedIn profile import or publishing connection; adding the finished text to LinkedIn is a separate step.
Choose facts that you can stand behind
Give enough context to distinguish your work from a job title alone. Include tasks you performed, tools you used and the people or problems your work served. If you include a metric, check its amount, timeframe and your contribution. A team result should not become a claim that you achieved it alone.
Describe your level honestly. Coursework, independent projects, volunteering and unpaid internships can demonstrate relevant experience, but identify them accurately rather than presenting them as paid employment. Name a credential only if you earned it; describe an unfinished course as in progress. Do not turn an interest in management into management experience or a future target into a completed result.
Fictional input and summary example
The following pair is an original editorial example for a fictional person. It is not a recorded response from this tool or evidence of a generation test.
Example Profession input: A junior software developer seeking a first paid development role. Completed an independent library-catalog project using Python and SQLite, with search and book-status features. Wrote setup notes and basic tests. Volunteers at a community coding club, helping beginners troubleshoot small Python exercises. Interested in backend development. No paid software-development experience or professional certifications. Keep the summary factual and avoid invented employers, metrics or seniority.
Illustrative summary: I am a junior software developer interested in backend development. My independent library-catalog project uses Python and SQLite to search books and track their status. I wrote setup notes and basic tests as part of the project.
I also volunteer at a community coding club, where I help beginners troubleshoot small Python exercises. I am seeking my first paid software-development role and would welcome conversations about junior backend opportunities.
The summary keeps the project and volunteer work distinct from employment. It does not add a degree, a certification or a business result that the input never supplied. Adapt the structure to your own evidence rather than copying the fictional background.
Review before adding it to your profile
- Check every factual claim. Confirm job titles, dates, employers, responsibilities, skills, credentials and numbers against your own records.
- Remove inflated language. Replace unsupported labels such as “industry leader” or “expert” with a concrete description of your work.
- Keep your voice. Read the summary aloud and edit stiff phrases. Use relevant professional terms naturally, without repeating a keyword list.
- Check consistency. Make sure the About text agrees with your Experience, Education and Skills sections, including whether projects were personal, academic or professional.
- Review the final presentation. Check spelling, paragraph breaks and the limits shown in LinkedIn’s current editor.
Once the wording is ready, open your LinkedIn profile and edit its About section, paste the reviewed text and save it. LinkedIn’s About editing instructions describe the desktop and mobile steps. Reopen your profile afterward to check the saved version.
Privacy and practical limits
Use only information you are permitted to share. Leave out confidential employer plans, unpublished client results, private contact details and other people’s personal information. GPTOnline’s Privacy Policy states that prompts entered into writing tools are sent to third-party AI model providers to produce responses. Do not assume a career draft is a confidential workspace.
The Terms of Use explain that AI output can be inaccurate or incomplete and needs review. This tool provides drafting assistance, not verification of your background. A revised summary does not guarantee search visibility, profile views, connections, interviews or employment.