As of 13 August 2026, AI can improve your LinkedIn profile.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current LinkedIn profile and copy the headline, About section, employment entries, education and skills into a document.
   2. Gather your current CV, two or three target UK job descriptions, and a list of achievements, projects, qualifications and tools you have genuinely used.
   3. Remove private contact details and any information you do not want to share, then paste the material into the prompt's bracketed sections.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the headline, About section, experience entries, skills list and missing-evidence questions in the requested order.
   5. Compare every employer, job title, date, qualification, responsibility and result in the draft against your CV and LinkedIn history, and delete or correct anything unsupported.
   6. Choose the version that sounds like you, replace generic wording with your own examples, and answer the missing-facts questions using only evidence you can defend.
   7. Paste the checked headline, About section, experience entries and skills into LinkedIn, then preview the profile on desktop and mobile before saving.

   Prompt

   Improve my LinkedIn profile for [TARGET ROLE OR TYPES OF ROLE] in the UK. Use only the facts I provide and invent no employers, qualifications, dates, achievements, responsibilities, results or skills. Keep the tone professional, specific and natural rather than promotional. First, identify the strongest evidence in my background for the target role. Then provide: 1) three headline options within LinkedIn's headline limit, 2) a revised About section in first person, 3) revised experience entries with concise bullet points, 4) a prioritised skills list, and 5) five missing facts or examples that would make the profile more credible. For every proposed change, explain briefly what it improves. Do not use empty phrases such as 'results-driven', 'passionate' or 'dynamic' unless my evidence supports them. Do not add metrics unless I provide them. Preserve my voice and flag any sentence that I need to confirm before publishing.
   
   Here is my current LinkedIn profile:
   [PASTE PROFILE]
   
   Here is my CV or work history:
   [PASTE CV OR WORK HISTORY]
   
   Here are the roles I am targeting:
   [PASTE ONE OR MORE JOB DESCRIPTIONS OR DESCRIBE THE TARGET ROLES]
   
   Here are achievements, projects, qualifications and preferences that are definitely accurate:
   [PASTE VERIFIED DETAILS]

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.