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ai your LinkedIn
A practical, compassionate and slightly opinionated guide to using ai
to strengthen your LinkedIn profile
Introduction:Your LinkedIn profile is often the first impression people have of you. Sometimes it’s a recruiter. Sometimes it’s a future collaborator, a board chair, a funder, or someone quietly Googling you after a meeting thinking “they seemed impressive, let me check them out.”
Your LinkedIn profile is often the first impression people have of you. Sometimes it’s a recruiter. Sometimes it’s a future collaborator, a board chair, a funder, or someone quietly Googling you after a meeting thinking “they seemed impressive, let me check them out.”
That little blue page does a lot of heavy lifting.
This guide is designed to help you use ai as a thinking partner to review and improve your LinkedIn profile in a way that still sounds like you. Not polished into corporate beige. Not loud for the sake of it. Just clearer, more intentional, and better aligned to where you want to go next.
You don’t need to be a confident self-promoter to do this well. You just need a bit of curiosity, some honesty, and a willingness to reflect. The ai does the heavy analysis. You stay in the driver’s seat
Why I’m sharing this:I’m sharing these prompts because I’ve seen how uneven the playing field can be.
I’m sharing these prompts because I’ve seen how uneven the playing field can be.
Not everyone is taught how to talk about themselves with confidence. Some people are navigating bias related to gender, age, culture, disability, neurodiversity, caring responsibilities, or lived experience. Some of us were actively taught not to take up space. Others were taught to take up space… but only in very specific, socially approved ways.
AI (Artificial Intelligence), used thoughtfully, can help level that field. It can surface patterns, reframe experience, and suggest language that holds both warmth and authority. My aim here is simple: to help people be seen more clearly for the value they already bring.
This isn’t about gaming LinkedIn or chasing virality. It’s about alignment, clarity, and dignity.
Throughout this guide, I use ai in lowercase when referring to AI as a reflective tool or mentor, rather than the technology itself.
The process you’ll follow:This guide takes you through five stages:
This guide takes you through five stages:
1. Exporting and preparing your LinkedIn profile
2. Setting the context and purpose for your profile
3. Naming any bias sensitivities and voice choices
4. Discovering your intent if you’re not clear yet
5. Running a structured ai analysis of your profile
You can do this in one sitting or come back to it over time. (Many people do, usually after a career change, a confidence wobble, or a conversation that starts with “maybe I should update my LinkedIn…”)
Step 1: Export and prepare your LinkedIn profile data
How to export your profile: 1. Go to your LinkedIn profile page in the browser (not the app on your phone😉)
1. Go to your LinkedIn profile page in the browser (not the app on your phone😉)
2. Click Resources (near your profile header)
3. Select Save to PDF
4. Download the PDF to your computer
This PDF will be the main input for the ai.
Clean the document:Before sharing it with ai:
Before sharing it with ai:
– Remove your phone number
– Remove your email address
– Remove your street address (city and country is fine)
– Remove links to private documents or internal systems
You can do this by redacting directly in the PDF, or by copying the text into a word document and editing there. Save this somewhere you can access it later for step 5. This will export your summary, experience, education, top skills, certifications and awards section. Manually copy and paste any other relevant sections that you wish to include.
Add visuals separately:Provide the following as separate images, not embedded in the document:
Provide the following as separate images, not embedded in the document:
– A screenshot of your current headshot
– A screenshot of your current banner image
These help the ai comment on visual alignment and first impressions. Again, save these screen shots somewhere easily accessible for step 5.
A note on security and privacy: – Use an AI account that only you access
– Use an AI account that only you access
– Don’t upload sensitive commercial or confidential information
– Assume anything you share may be stored or logged
– Never upload other people’s personal data without consent
When in doubt, leave it out. Clarity does not require oversharing.
Step 2: Discovering your intent (if you’re not sure yet)
If you don’t know how to answer any of the following questions, that’s completely normal. Use this discovery prompt. You can repeat this as many times as you need.
Discovery prompt:
“I’m not clear yet on how I want to answer this question. Please ask me 3 thoughtful questions to help me clarify my thinking. Ask them one at a time and wait for my response before continuing.”
Step 3: Set the context for your profile
Before analysing your profile, the ai needs to understand why this profile exists.
Copy and paste the following prompt, then answer honestly.
Context prompt:“You are helping me review and improve my LinkedIn profile. Before analysing it, I want to give you context. Ask me these questions one at a time and wait for my response before asking the next question.
“You are helping me review and improve my LinkedIn profile. Before analysing it, I want to give you context. Ask me these questions one at a time and wait for my response before asking the next question.
1. What is the primary purpose of my LinkedIn profile right now? (e.g. job search, board roles, sector visibility, thought leadership, consulting, community impact)
2. Are there specific sectors, industries, or causes I want to be visible in?
3. Who do I most want this profile to speak to? (e.g. recruiters, peers, executives, community leaders, funders)
4. What actions do I hope a reader might take after viewing my profile?”
Add your answers as your ai prompts you.
Step 3: Set the context for your profile
LinkedIn doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Bias can shape how profiles are read. This step is about being intentional with your voice, not shrinking yourself.
Bias sensitivity prompt:“You are helping me understand how bias might impact my LinkedIn profile. Ask me this question – Are there any forms of bias that may affect how your profile is interpreted? (e.g. gender, age, First Nations identity, cultural background, disability, neurodiversity, lived experience). If I answer yes, then ask me:
“You are helping me understand how bias might impact my LinkedIn profile. Ask me this question – Are there any forms of bias that may affect how your profile is interpreted? (e.g. gender, age, First Nations identity, cultural background, disability, neurodiversity, lived experience). If I answer yes, then ask me:
– Do you want this acknowledged explicitly, subtly, or not at all?
– What tone feels right? (e.g. strong advocacy, calm authority, quietly values led, neutral and professional)
– Are there words or framings you want to avoid?
– Ask me these one at a time and wait for my response before asking the next question.”
Add your answers as your ai prompts.
There is no right answer here. This is about choice.
Step 5: The LinkedIn profile analysis prompt
Once you have:
– Your cleaned profile text
– Your headshot and banner screenshots
– Your context answers
– You’re ready for the main event.
Optimised analysis prompt:“You are an expert in LinkedIn profile optimisation, professional storytelling, and inclusive leadership communication.
“You are an expert in LinkedIn profile optimisation, professional storytelling, and inclusive leadership communication.
Using the LinkedIn profile content I’ve provided, my headshot, my banner image, and the context I’ve shared, please conduct a detailed review.
Analyse the profile for:
– Clarity of purpose and positioning
– Strength and alignment of the headline and About section
– Use of language, tone, and confidence without exaggeration
– Evidence of impact rather than task lists
– Visual alignment between headshot, banner, and written voice
– Potential bias risks and how wording could minimise them
In addition, please check my profile for:
– Where I overclaim
– Where I undersell
– Where authority weakens
– Where narrative fragments
– What should be removed
– What feels performative rather than strategic
Please provide recommendations in three sections:
– Quick wins (low effort, high impact changes)
– Medium effort improvements
– Strategic rewrites or repositioning suggestions
Where relevant, provide example rewrites in my voice, not generic corporate language.”
Re-use this guideYou can come back to this process any time your role, confidence, or direction shifts. Many people re-run it every year or two, or after a career transition, board appointment, or big life change. Your LinkedIn profile should evolve as you do.
You can come back to this process any time your role, confidence, or direction shifts. Many people re-run it every year or two, or after a career transition, board appointment, or big life change. Your LinkedIn profile should evolve as you do.
Prefer to talk it out instead of typing?That counts as thinking too.
