Your headline is 220 characters that follow you across every comment, search result, and connection request on LinkedIn. Enter your role, pick a tone, and get five distinct options in seconds. No signup, no credit card.
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The 220 characters under your name. This is the field recruiters search, so the role you want should appear in it literally.
Most people write their LinkedIn headline once, accept whatever LinkedIn auto-filled from their job title, and never look at it again. That is a mistake, because the headline is not really a profile field. It travels. It sits under your name in recruiter search results, next to every comment you leave, on every connection request you send, and in the preview card when someone shares your profile.
It is also one of the most heavily weighted fields in LinkedIn's own search ranking. If a recruiter searches for a role and those exact words never appear in your headline, you are far harder to surface, no matter how strong the rest of your profile is. Writing it well is a twenty minute job that keeps paying out for years.
These are the patterns behind headlines that actually get clicked. The generator applies all four, but they are worth knowing so you can judge the options it gives you.
Use the words a recruiter would type, not your company's internal title. "Growth Lead II" means nothing outside your org. "Growth Marketing Manager" is what gets searched.
Only the first 60 to 70 characters reliably show on mobile and in search results. Whatever matters most has to come before the first separator, not after it.
A title alone is forgettable. One specialism, one outcome, or one clear statement of who you help is what separates you from the hundred other people with the same title.
Your headline appears beside comments on other people's posts, where nobody has any idea who you are. If it only makes sense on your profile page, it is doing half a job.
The same person, written two ways. The weak version is not wrong, it is just invisible. Notice how each strong version keeps the searchable role and spends the leftover characters on something specific.
Seeking new opportunities | Open to work
Operations Manager | Supply chain and vendor management | Open to new roles
Recruiters search by role, never by "seeking opportunities". The strong version stays findable for Operations Manager and still signals availability.
Student at University of Zurich
Economics graduate moving into data analysis | Python, SQL, Tableau | Zurich
A student headline tells recruiters what you were. Naming the direction you are heading and the tools you actually use tells them what to hire you for.
Former teacher exploring new paths
Learning Designer | 8 years in the classroom, now building corporate training
"Former" anything anchors you to the past. Leading with the new role and using the old one as evidence turns the switch into an advantage.
Senior Software Engineer at Acme
Senior Software Engineer | Payments infrastructure at scale | Go, Kubernetes
The company name is already on your profile. Those characters buy far more when they name your specialism and the stack recruiters filter on.
Freelance Designer | Available for projects
Brand Designer for early stage startups | Identity, packaging, and pitch decks
"Available for projects" says nothing about fit. Naming who you serve and what you deliver lets the right client recognise themselves instantly.
The headline is your search entry. It is short, it follows you around the platform, and it carries most of your keyword weight. Its job is to get you found and to earn one click through to your profile. That is all it has to do.
The About section is where you actually explain yourself. You get up to 2,600 characters, but only the first three lines show before the "see more" fold, so the opening still has to work hard. It is the one field on LinkedIn where writing in first person is correct. Switch the tab above to generate that one instead, and cross-check the result against your resume so the two tell the same story.
The things people ask most about LinkedIn headlines.
LinkedIn allows 220 characters in the headline field. Only the first 60 to 70 characters reliably show in search results, comments, and mobile, so put the role you want to be found for at the front. Every option this generator produces is checked against the 220 character limit and shows you its exact count.
A good headline names the role you want to be found for in the exact words a recruiter would search, then adds one thing that separates you: a specialism, an outcome, or who you help. It also has to read well out of context, because it appears next to every comment and connection request you send.
Your job title alone is the safe default and it is what LinkedIn fills in automatically, but it wastes roughly 180 of your 220 characters. Keeping the title and adding a specialism or an outcome gives recruiters a reason to click without costing you any search visibility.
Lead with the role you want, not your employment status. Write the target role the way you would if you already held it, then add that you are open to opportunities. Recruiters search by role keyword, so a headline that says only "Seeking new opportunities" is effectively invisible to them.
Yes. The headline is one of the most heavily weighted fields in LinkedIn's own search, alongside your job titles and skills. A role keyword that appears in your headline makes you findable for recruiter searches on that term; one that never appears there is much harder to surface.
Yes, it is completely free with no signup. Enter your role, optionally add a target role and your key skills, pick a tone, and get five headline options plus a specific tip. You can also switch it to write your About section instead.
The headline is 220 characters that travel with you across the whole platform and carry most of your search weight. The About section is up to 2,600 characters that only appear on your profile, where you have room to explain your work in your own voice. This tool writes both, using the tab at the top.
Whenever what you want to be found for changes. That means a new role, a new specialism, or the start of a job search. If you are actively looking, it is worth revisiting every few weeks as you notice which job titles keep appearing in the postings you actually want.
A strong headline gets you found. What happens next is your resume. Check yours against the job you are targeting, free and in under a minute.
