--- title: "How to get AI to update my LinkedIn profile" url: https://howtogetaito.com/update/my-linkedin-profile/ published: 2026-09-22 updated: 2026-09-22 author: "Jack Stovell" author_profile: https://i.hilyt.it/jack publisher: "Adapt Progress Evolve" summary: "Headline, About and Experience rewritten from your real CV and the roles you actually want, in your own words — every claim true, the search terms recruiters use worked in naturally, and nothing invented." tools: ["ChatGPT","Claude","Gemini","Copilot","LinkedIn"] ours: ["ScriptGrain"] disclosure: "ScriptGrain is made by the publisher." language: en-GB --- # How to get AI to update my LinkedIn profile > Headline, About and Experience rewritten from your real CV and the roles you actually want, in your own words — every claim true, the search terms recruiters use worked in naturally, and nothing invented. Published 2026-09-22 · Last updated 2026-09-22 · By Jack Stovell (https://i.hilyt.it/jack) · Canonical page: https://howtogetaito.com/update/my-linkedin-profile/ ## What you'll be able to do By the end of this you'll have rewritten your headline, your About section, and at least one experience entry, so it sounds like you rather than a job advert someone wrote for a role you never actually had. The point isn't to sound clever. It's to make sure the recruiter, client, or collaborator searching for someone exactly like you can find you, and then understand within seconds what you actually do. ## Before you start A few things worth knowing before you touch any of this. LinkedIn shows different bits of your profile in different places. Your headline (the line under your name) travels with you everywhere, into search results, into comments you leave on posts, into connection requests. It matters more than people think. After that comes your About section, then Experience (where each role should say what you did and what changed because of it), then Skills, then Featured, where you can pin one real piece of work. That's the order of impact, roughly, and it's worth writing in that order too. Each box on LinkedIn shows you a character counter as you type. Use it. Don't try to remember a limit from an old blog post (including this one), just write to the counter that's actually in front of you. On the AI side: your own career history is fine to paste into a chatbot. It's yours, you lived it. What you shouldn't paste is anything that isn't really yours to share, employer-confidential numbers, projects that haven't been announced yet, clients under an NDA. And your profile doesn't need your address, date of birth, or phone number, so don't bother giving those to the AI either. The biggest mistake people make here isn't a privacy one though. It's assuming buzzwords will do the job. They won't. "Results-driven" and "passionate" tell a reader nothing. Your own writing, in your own phrasing, does the work that adjectives can't. ## Get set up You don't need much. A chatbot (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot all work fine for this), your CV, and ideally three job adverts or client briefs that describe the kind of work you actually want next. If you want a check that what it writes still sounds like you rather than sounding like, well, AI, that's where ScriptGrain comes in (it's one of ours, made by the people behind this site, so take that as you will). It measures your existing writing across 45 reference points, builds a voice profile from that, then scores each draft against it, so you can tell whether the About section it just wrote actually reads like something you'd say. The free tier gets you one profile, one writing analysis, and one free draft, no card needed. Regular use is paid; check scriptgrain.com/pricing rather than trusting a number here. It earns its keep when you're doing this across a lot of writing at once, a CV, a portfolio, a LinkedIn overhaul. The free alternative, and it genuinely works, is pasting three things you've actually written. A couple of old posts, an email you sent a client, a bio from another site, anything. Tell the AI "write like these" and it has something real to imitate instead of guessing at a generic professional tone. It costs nothing and takes five minutes, so start there if that's all the time you've got today. ## Try it yourself Right, here's where you actually do it. Open your chatbot of choice, have your CV and those job adverts ready, and work through these three prompts in order: headline, About, then one Experience entry as a test. ``` Here is my CV: [paste]. Here are three roles I want: [paste adverts]. Write five headline options under 120 characters that say what I do, who for, and what changes, plain words, no adjectives. Then list the ten terms the adverts repeat that are genuinely true of me. ``` That second half matters as much as the first. Those repeated terms are what recruiter search actually looks for, and if they're true of you, working them naturally into your text is how you get found. Next, the About section. ``` Write my About section in first person, three short paragraphs: what I do, proof it works (only from the CV), what I want next. Under 150 words. Use these samples of my writing for the voice: [paste]. ``` Paste in those three writing samples from earlier here. This is the bit that stops it sounding like a robot wrote a LinkedIn bio, because, well, it did, unless you give it something real to copy the rhythm of. And then Experience. ``` Rewrite this Experience entry as four bullets, each ending in a result that is in my notes. If a result is not in my notes, leave the bullet without one rather than inventing it: [paste]. ``` That last instruction, about not inventing a result, is the whole game. AI will happily add "increased efficiency by 30%" if you let it, and you did not measure that, and someone who worked with you will read your profile one day and know you're making it up. Worth knowing too: LinkedIn itself has a feature called Profile Writing Assistance, which drafts headline and About text from what's already on your profile and proofreads an Experience entry once you've written at least twenty words of it. It's available to a select group of Premium subscribers, and you still edit before saving. If you've got access to it, it's a reasonable starting point, but it's working from what's already there, which is exactly the outdated stuff you're trying to fix. The chatbot prompts above, working from your actual CV and the roles you want, generally get you further. ## Check the result Once you've got drafts, don't just paste them straight in. Check them properly. Read the headline and About as if you were a stranger. Give yourself ten seconds. Do you know what this person does and who for? If you have to read it twice, it's not there yet. Check every single claim against your CV. Every date, every outcome, every number. If the AI added something you didn't give it, a title, a client name, an award, a figure, delete it. This gets read by people who were actually there when it happened. Then go and search LinkedIn for the role terms you'd want to be found for. See if you appear. This is the actual test of whether the terms list from that first prompt did anything useful. And read back through for buzzword strings. Passionate, results-driven, dynamic, synergy, if you spot these clustered together, that's the tell that a section still sounds like a job advert rather than a person. Cut them. Last thing: open your profile on your phone and check the headline reads in full, not cut off halfway through a sentence. ## If it doesn't work Sometimes the draft comes back and it's just... flat. Sounds like everyone else in your industry. If that happens, go back and give the AI your writing samples again, plus a short list of banned words (passionate, dynamic, results-driven, whatever's crept in). That usually fixes it in one more pass. If it's too long, and About sections especially tend to run long, give it an actual limit per section rather than a vague "make it shorter". "Under 150 words" works better than "shorter, please". If it's aimed at the wrong audience, and this one's easy to miss, tell the AI explicitly who reads this profile. A recruiter deciding whether to shortlist you. A client deciding whether to hire you directly. A hiring manager deciding whether you're worth a call. Each of those people is looking for slightly different signals, and the AI can't guess which one you're writing for unless you say. On privacy: your own career history, your own writing, that's all fair game to paste in. What you leave out is anything that belongs to someone else more than it belongs to you, confidential figures from an employer, a project that hasn't launched yet, a client you're under NDA with. None of that needs to go near a chatbot, and none of it needs to go on your profile either. LinkedIn doesn't need your date of birth or your home address. Nobody's hiring you based on your postcode. ## Questions people ask ### Which AI should I use to rewrite my LinkedIn profile? A chatbot such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot all work fine for this. You'll also want your CV and ideally three job adverts or client briefs describing the kind of work you want next. ### Is updating my LinkedIn with AI free? Yes, the free route works: paste three things you've actually written and tell the AI "write like these". It costs nothing and takes five minutes. ScriptGrain's free tier gives one profile, one writing analysis and one free draft, no card needed, with regular use paid. ### What should I not paste into a chatbot about my job? Your own career history is fine, it's yours. Leave out anything that isn't really yours to share: employer-confidential numbers, projects that haven't been announced, clients under NDA. Your profile doesn't need your address, date of birth or phone number either. ### How do I check the AI didn't make things up on my profile? Check every claim against your CV, every date, outcome and number. If the AI added a title, client name, award or figure you didn't give it, delete it. This gets read by people who were actually there when it happened. ### What order should I rewrite my LinkedIn profile in? Headline first, since it travels into search results, comments and connection requests, then About, then Experience, then Skills, then Featured. That's roughly the order of impact, and it's worth writing in that order too. ## Keep exploring If you found this useful, there's more that follows on naturally. How to get AI to write my CV covers the document your headline and About are drawing from in the first place. How to get AI to find and apply for jobs picks up once your profile's in shape and you're ready to actually go looking. And How to get AI to sound like me goes deeper into the voice-matching side of things, useful if you're writing more than just a LinkedIn profile and want everything, emails, proposals, posts, to sound consistently like you. ## Sources and review notes https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1444194 https://scriptgrain.com/pricing Review date: 2026-09-22