LinkedIn Headline Generator
Type your role, skills and what you do best, and get headlines in several common patterns, each checked against LinkedIn’s 220-character limit.
What you type stays on your device: nothing is sent or saved.
Type your role to see headlines.
A headline that says what you do
Your headline sits under your name everywhere on LinkedIn: on your profile, beside every comment, and in search results. Left alone, it’s just your job title. A few more words, such as what you specialize in, the tools you use, or who you help, tell people at a glance why they should click. This tool arranges your own words into several headline patterns so you can pick the one that sounds most like you.
How to use it
- Type your role. That’s the only field you need; the others add more patterns.
- Add your specialty, up to three skills, who you help, and a result you can back up, if you like.
- Read the suggestions as they appear, copy the one you like, and paste it into your LinkedIn profile’s headline. Edit it freely there.
What makes a good headline
- Front-load it: only the start shows on phones and in many lists. Your role and your strongest word should come first.
- Use the words people search for: the titles and skills that appear in job ads you want. The Resume Keyword Matcher shows which words an ad leans on.
- Be concrete: “cut delivery delays by a third” says more than “results-driven”. Only use a result you could talk about in an interview.
- Skip the buzzwords: words like “passionate”, “ninja” or “guru” take space without saying anything.
Ideas for different situations
- Changing careers: lead with the role you’re moving into and the skills that carry over, such as “Project Coordinator | Event planning · budgets · supplier management”.
- Just graduated: your field and what you’re looking for, such as “Mechanical Engineering graduate | CAD · prototyping”.
- Working for yourself: what you do and who for, such as “Bookkeeper helping small bakeries keep clean accounts”.
The patterns
The suggestions follow patterns that work for most roles: your role with your skills; your role and your specialty; your role and who you help; a result you achieved. A pattern only appears when you’ve filled in every field it needs, so nothing is made up. Each shows its length against LinkedIn’s 220-character limit.