# LinkedIn Profile Draft: [Your name]

> A drafting sheet for a LinkedIn profile: headline, About section,
> experience entries, skills, featured items, and the visibility and
> privacy settings to review before a job search. Write and edit here,
> then paste each part into the profile editor. Based on common
> career-coaching practice and LinkedIn's own help pages as checked in
> October 2026. Replace every `[bracketed]` value and every line marked
> *Example*.

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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Profile URL | [linkedin.com/in/your-name] |
| Target role | [Role you want to be found for] |
| Last updated | YYYY-MM-DD |

## 1. Headline

<!-- Guidance: Role you want plus what you are good at plus proof or domain. Avoid "seeking opportunities"; the open-to-work setting handles that. -->

[Target title] | [Core skill 1, core skill 2] | [Domain or proof]

*Example:* Senior Product Analyst | Experimentation, SQL, Python |
Turning app data into product decisions in mobility and e-commerce

## 2. About

<!-- Guidance: First person, three short paragraphs. The first two lines show before "see more", so open with what you do and for whom. End with what you are looking for or how to reach you. -->

[Paragraph 1: what you do, for whom, and your strongest result.]

[Paragraph 2: how you work and two or three examples with numbers.]

[Paragraph 3: what you want next, and how to contact you.]

*Example:* I help product teams decide what to build by designing
experiments and turning messy app data into clear recommendations.
Over five years I have run more than 30 A/B tests and built forecasts
used by operations teams. I am interested in senior analytics roles in
consumer products; message me here.

## 3. Experience

<!-- Guidance: Same title, employer and dates as your resume. Under each role, one line on scope, then two to four results with numbers. Do not paste confidential figures. -->

[Job title], [Organisation], [MM/YYYY] to [MM/YYYY or Present]

- Scope: [team, product, users]
- [Result with a number]
- [Result with a number]

## 4. Skills, featured and recommendations

- Skills (pin your top three): [Skill 1], [Skill 2], [Skill 3]; then
  [up to the others that match target postings]
- Featured: [a portfolio case study, talk, article or project link]
- Recommendations to request: [Name, relationship, what to mention]

## 5. Visibility and privacy checklist

<!-- Guidance: Review these in "Settings and Privacy" before you start searching. Labels and options change; check the current LinkedIn Help Center. -->

- [ ] Open to Work: choose who sees it. LinkedIn's help page lists
  "All LinkedIn members" (adds a photo frame and is visible to people
  at your current employer), "Recruiters only" (LinkedIn says it tries
  to hide this from recruiters at your current company but cannot
  guarantee complete privacy) and a setting visible only to you.
  Source: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a507508
- [ ] Profile edits: decide whether your network is notified of changes
  while you update many sections at once.
- [ ] Contact info: show only what you want strangers to see; a
  personal phone number is rarely needed.
- [ ] Profile viewing mode and public profile visibility: decide what
  people outside LinkedIn and search engines can see.
- [ ] Data and activity: review what your activity and data may be used
  for under the current settings.

## Standard and licence note

Based on common career-coaching practice for professional profiles, and
on the LinkedIn Help Center page named above as checked on 2026-10-30.
Settings and limits change: check the current help pages. Original text
written for this collection; people and figures are fictional.
LinkedIn is a trademark of its owner; this template is not affiliated
with or endorsed by it. Template licence: MIT.