The About section is the longest text on your LinkedIn profile, and most visitors read only its first two lines before deciding whether to click see more. The LinkedIn About Section tool writes it in the first person from your role and a few notes on your background, with a hook built for those first lines.
You give it your name, your headline or current role, and a short brief on your experience, results, strengths, who you help and what you are looking for now. It returns three or four short paragraphs, closes with a clear invitation to connect, and adds a suggested headline you can paste into the headline field of your profile.
It sits in Business documents with the other profile tools. For a third-person version of the same story, for a website or a speaker page, use the Professional Bio.
What you get
- An opening hook of no more than 200 characters, written for the part of the section visible before see more
- Three or four short paragraphs on what you do, for whom, your proof and what you are open to now
- A closing invitation to connect or get in touch, with an [email or website] placeholder if you gave no contact
- The whole section under 2,600 characters, the limit LinkedIn sets for the About field
What you fill in
- Your name optional
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e.g. Laura Bianchi
- Headline or current role optional
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e.g. Freelance UX designer for fintech startups
- Background, achievements and goals optional
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Experience, your most important results, what you do best, who you help and what you are looking for now.
How to use it, step by step
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Enter your name and current headline
Fill Your name and Headline or current role. A precise role, such as freelance UX designer for fintech startups, gives the tool a clear audience to write for.
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Describe your background in a few lines
In Background, achievements and goals, write what you have done, the results you are proudest of, what you do best, who you help and what you want next.
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Pick the language and tone, then generate
Choose the output language and a tone that matches how you talk to clients or colleagues.
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Paste it and check it on your phone
Copy the About section into your profile and the headline into the headline field, then check on a phone that the first two lines still work before the see more cut.
Example, input and output
Input
- your_name
- Marco Ferri
- your_title
- Freelance UX designer for fintech startups
- your_summary
- 8 years in product design, first at a bank, then freelance. Redesigned onboarding flows for payment apps. Good at turning compliance requirements into simple screens. Looking for long-term collaborations with early-stage fintech teams.
Output
I have spent eight years in product design, first inside a bank and then as a freelancer. That path taught me how financial products are built from the inside, and how much clarity they can lose on the way to the user.
I am open to long-term collaborations with early-stage fintech teams. If you are building something in payments or digital banking, send me a message or write to [email or website].
Suggested headline: Freelance UX designer for fintech startups | Onboarding and payment flows | From compliance to clear screens
Illustrative example, shortened.
Tips for better results
- Lead with what changes for the people you help, not with your job title. That is what makes a reader click see more.
- Name one audience. Fintech startups produces sharper paragraphs than companies of every size.
Who uses it, and for what
Freelancer looking for clients
Write the section around the clients you want and the problem you solve, so a prospect knows within two lines whether to get in touch.
Job seeker who wants to be found by recruiters
Describe the role you are aiming for and your strongest results. The text uses the terms recruiters look for in that role, and the headline states it clearly.
Limits and good practice
- It writes the About section and a headline, not the rest of the profile. Experience entries and skills are edited in LinkedIn.
- It does not read your current profile. Paste the parts you want to keep into the background field.
Frequently asked questions
How long should a LinkedIn About section be?
LinkedIn allows up to 2,600 characters, and the tool stays under that limit. What matters most is the opening, because only the first lines are visible before see more. Three or four short paragraphs give enough room for proof and a clear ask without losing the reader.
Why is the About section written in the first person?
The About section is your own voice on the platform, and first-person text reads as more direct and personal. If you need a third-person description, for a conference program, a website or a press kit, the Professional Bio tool writes that version in three lengths.
Does the tool also write my LinkedIn headline?
Yes. After the About section it adds a line labeled Suggested headline, with up to 220 characters, built from your role and the audience in your brief. You can paste it as it is or shorten it to the part you most want people to remember.
Will it add skills or results I didn't mention?
No. The text uses only what you wrote in the name, headline and background fields. If a contact detail is missing, it leaves a placeholder such as [email or website]. Achievements, employers and numbers appear only if they are in your brief.
Can I have my About section in both Italian and English?
Yes. Set the output language in the form and generate once for each language. LinkedIn lets you add a profile in a second language, so you can keep an Italian and an English version of the same story, each written naturally rather than translated line by line.
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