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Personal BrandEarly Career
LinkedIn Headline Tune-Up
20 min
Listen to your Coach
AICandi will walk you through this exercise.
Goal
Rewrite your LinkedIn headline so the right recruiters find you and the right peers click through.
Setup
Open your LinkedIn profile on a desktop and pull up three target job descriptions in side-by-side browser tabs. Highlight the top five recurring keywords from those listings that describe your current expertise.
Exercise Instructions
Highlight 5 keywords that repeat across the 3 job descriptions. Draft 3 headline versions, each under 220 characters, using the pattern: [Role keyword] • [Specialty or outcome] • [Audience or industry]. Example: "Product Manager • Shipping AI features for B2B SaaS • Ex-Stripe." Pick the one that's easiest to say out loud. Save it. Send the link to one trusted friend and ask: "What do you think I do based on this headline?"
Coach Tip
The headline is for the searcher, not for you. Lead with the words they're typing into the search bar.
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