Free LinkedIn Headline Generator

Why your LinkedIn headline matters

Your headline is the first thing recruiters and connections see, in search results, comments, and invitations. A strong, keyword-rich headline makes you more discoverable and instantly communicates your value. Use specific role keywords recruiters search for, not just your job title.

The short version

Your headline follows your name everywhere on LinkedIn, in search results, comments and connection requests. It is the single most read line on your profile and most people leave it as a job title.

What a headline has to do

Two things at once. It has to contain the terms recruiters search for, because LinkedIn search weights the headline heavily, and it has to tell a human what you actually do. A bare job title does the first badly and the second not at all.

A structure that works

• Your role or the role you are targeting, in the words the industry uses.
• A specialism or domain, which is what separates you from everyone with the same title.
• Optionally, evidence or focus, such as the kind of problem you work on.

Common mistakes

Writing 'Seeking new opportunities' and nothing else, which tells a recruiter what you want rather than what you offer. Filling the line with emoji and separators until the searchable terms are buried. Using an internal job title that means nothing outside your former employer.

If you are currently job hunting

Lead with what you do, then signal availability if you want to. 'Financial Analyst, FP&A and forecasting, open to new roles' works. 'Open to work' on its own is the version recruiters cannot search for.

Answers to common questions