Paste your current headline and tell us the role you want. You'll get a score, the change that would help most, and rewrites that put the job first.
What you'll get
A score out of 100
Based on what recruiters notice first: whether the job is in the first 40 characters, whether it matches the role you want, and how much filler there is.
The change that matters most
We point out the weakest part of your headline and explain how to fix it in a sentence.
Rewrites built from your answers
Each option uses the role and audience you entered, so it fits your situation.
Paste it exactly as it appears on your profile. Up to 220 characters.
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A LinkedIn headline optimizer scores the line recruiters see before they click on your profile. This one checks seven things: whether the job is in the first 40 characters, whether the role you want appears at all, length against LinkedIn's 220-character limit, filler words, structure, specificity, and whether it says who you help.
The rewrites are built from the role you type in, so they're written for you. The strongest headlines are usually between 60 and 120 characters. That's enough room for the job and one piece of proof, and still easy to read on a phone.
Clarity
Does the role you want appear in the first 40 characters? That's often all a phone shows.
Specificity
Does it include an industry, a number or a result as well as a job title?
Keywords
Does the headline include the words from the role you want to be found for?
Length
LinkedIn allows 220 characters. Headlines between 60 and 120 tend to work best.
Filler
Words like ninja, guru, passionate and seeking opportunities take up space without saying what you do.
Structure
A readable phrase works better than a long list of skills separated by pipes.
Audience
Does it say who you help? This matters most if you want clients or followers.
Scoring last reviewed by the MentorCruise careers team.
Each example shows a common headline, a stronger version, and why the second one scores higher. They're here to show how the scoring works. For a rewrite that fits you, paste your own headline into the generator.
Before
Passionate Leader | Seeking Opportunities | Results-Driven Professional
It opens with filler and never names a job. 'Seeking opportunities' also comes across as urgency rather than expertise.
After
Product Manager | B2B payments | Shipped checkout used by 40k merchants
The job title comes first, followed by an industry and a result a hiring manager can check.
Before
Software Engineer | Python | Java | AWS | Kubernetes | Docker | Microservices | CI/CD | Seeking Senior Roles
This is a list of skills. Search may pick up 'Python', but most people won't read to the end, and that's where the role this person wants is buried.
After
Senior Software Engineer | Distributed systems | I help teams cut p99 latency
It names the role and a specialty, then says who the person helps. The individual tools can go in the Skills section.
Before
Account Executive at Acme
Accurate, but it only describes her current job. Someone hiring a product marketer won't find this profile.
After
Product Marketing | previously Account Executive | 7 years selling SaaS to CISOs
The role she wants comes first, and her sales background becomes supporting evidence.
LinkedIn shows about three lines of your About section before the 'see more' link, and most visitors don't click it. That makes your opening sentence the most important part. Like your headline, it should say what you do and who you help.
Paste your About section into the last step of the generator and we'll rewrite the opening lines for you. For help with the rest of your profile, such as Featured, your experience bullets or your photo, a personal-branding mentor can go through it with you.
Your headline gets people to click. The rest of your profile has to convince them once they arrive. After your headline, these four areas make the biggest difference.
It takes three steps. The generator handles the scoring, and you paste your favorite rewrite into LinkedIn.
Score my headlineUse the one on your profile today, even if you already plan to change it. That way the score reflects what recruiters see right now.
Use the title you'd want a recruiter to search for, like Staff Product Manager. It doesn't have to match your current job.
The score shows what's holding your headline back. Each rewrite leads with the job, drops the filler and stays under 220 characters. Paste the one you like best into LinkedIn.
Personal branding and career mentors who review profiles like yours every week.
Yes. Your score and the main issue are free, and you don't need an account. We only ask for your email if you want the full breakdown and the rewrites.
220 characters. On a phone, people often see only the first 40 or so. That's why the scorer puts so much weight on the opening and why every rewrite starts with the job title.
On desktop, usually the first 100 to 120 characters. On mobile, often just the first 40. If the role you want isn't in that space, many recruiters won't see it.
Partly. The tool scores your own headline and rewrites it around the role you want. Further down the page, annotated examples explain why some headlines score better than others.
It can rewrite the opening. If you paste your About section, you'll get new first lines along with your headline rewrites. LinkedIn shows about three lines before 'see more', so that's the part most people read.
Yes. Hiring managers search by job title, while potential clients and followers look for someone who can solve a problem they have. The goal you pick changes how the score is weighted and how the rewrites are written.
No. Headlines are public, and the 220-character limit and the way search matches them are the same with or without Premium.
It helps you show up for the role you named, which is the part you can control. Views also depend on how active you are, your network and who's hiring. A mentor can help you work out which of those is holding you back.
We store your headline, target role and score without any personal details, so we can check the scorer is working well. Your email is only attached if you choose to unlock the rewrites.
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