Paste the headline you have today. Name the role you want. You get a score, the one thing that is costing you clicks, and a rewrite that leads with the job.
What you walk away with
A score out of 100
Against the rules recruiters actually use: the first 40 characters, the job in the line, and no filler.
The one thing to fix first
Not a list of 40 tips. The dimension that is dragging the score, in one sentence.
A rewrite in your words
Filled from the role you named, not a gallery of headlines that belong to other people.
The live one, even if you already hate it. 220 characters max.
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A LinkedIn headline optimizer scores the line recruiters see before they open a profile. This one checks seven things: whether the job is in the first 40 characters, whether the role you want is in the line at all, length against the 220-character limit, filler words, structure, specificity, and whether it names who you help.
It is a scorer, not a swipe file. The rewrite is filled from the role you typed. Useful headlines sit between 60 and 120 characters: long enough to name the job and one proof, short enough to read on a phone.
Clarity
Is the job you want in the first 40 characters, which is all a phone shows?
Specificity
A domain, a number, or an outcome, not just a title and a feeling.
Keywords
Does the headline contain the role you actually want to be found for?
Length
220 characters max. The useful range is 60 to 120.
Filler
Ninja, guru, passionate, seeking opportunities: they cost you the click.
Structure
A readable phrase beats a pipe-separated dump of every skill you have.
Audience
Who is this for: a hiring manager, or the people you want to attract?
Scoring last reviewed by the MentorCruise careers team.
Each pair is annotated so you can see why the second line scores. These are not templates to copy. If your role is not on this list, paste yours into the generator above and score that instead.
Typical
Passionate Leader | Seeking Opportunities | Results-Driven Professional
Filler from the first word, no job, and 'seeking opportunities' tells a recruiter you need them more than they need you.
Rewritten
Product Manager | B2B payments | Shipped checkout used by 40k merchants
The job is in the first 16 characters. The rest is a domain and a number a hiring manager can check.
Typical
Software Engineer | Python | Java | AWS | Kubernetes | Docker | Microservices | CI/CD | Seeking Senior Roles
A skills dump. Search might match 'Python', but a person will not finish the line, and the job you want is at the end.
Rewritten
Senior Software Engineer | Distributed systems | I help teams cut p99 latency
Two beats, then who it is for. The skills belong in the Skills section, not the headline.
Typical
Account Executive at Acme
True, and invisible for the move she wants. Anyone hiring a product marketer will never see this profile.
Rewritten
Product Marketing | previously Account Executive | 7 years selling SaaS to CISOs
The target job leads. The old job becomes proof, not the identity.
A LinkedIn summary generator that dumps five paragraphs of biography is solving the wrong problem. LinkedIn shows three lines of About before 'see more'. Most people never click it. The opening sentence has to name who you help and what you do, the same way the headline does.
Paste your About into the last step of the generator. The unlock includes a rewrite of that opening, not a full autobiography. If you want the rest of the profile tightened – Featured, experience bullets, the photo – that is a conversation with a personal-branding mentor, not a form.
The headline is the search snippet. The rest of the profile has to survive the click. These are the four places that actually move the needle after the line is fixed.
Three steps. The generator does the scoring. You still have to paste the rewrite back into LinkedIn.
Score my headlineThe live one, even if you already hate it. The score is a diagnosis of what is on LinkedIn now, not of the version you wish you had written.
Not your current title if that is not the search you want to win. Staff Product Manager, not 'leader of things'.
The number tells you what is wrong. The rewrite puts the job first, drops the filler, and stays inside 220 characters. Paste it back into LinkedIn the same day.
Personal branding and career mentors who spend their week on profiles like this.
Yes. You get the score and the main issue with no account. We ask for an email only if you want the full breakdown and the rewrites.
220 characters. Recruiters on a phone see closer to the first 40. That is why the scorer weights the opening so heavily and why a rewrite always leads with the job.
On desktop, roughly the first 100 to 120 characters before a cut. On mobile, often the first 40. If the job you want is not in that window, the rest of the headline does not matter.
It scores the headline you already have, then rewrites it from the role you named. The examples further down are annotated so you can see why a line scores, not a swipe file to copy.
If you paste your About section, the unlock includes a rewrite of the opening. LinkedIn shows three lines before 'see more', so that opening is the only part most people read.
Yes. A hiring manager searches a job title. An inbound audience searches a problem they have. The goal step changes the weights, and the rewrite formula follows that.
No. Headlines are public. The 220-character limit and the way search matches words in them do not change with Premium.
It will make you findable for the role you named, which is the part you control. Views still depend on activity, network, and whether anyone is hiring. A mentor who does this for a living can tell you which of those is actually the constraint.
We store the headline, the role, and the score anonymously so we can tell whether the scorer is being useful. Your email is attached only if you choose to unlock the rewrites.
A career test, a raise number, a freelance rate, and a LinkedIn headline. Use the one that matches the conversation you are in.
Eighteen questions. A ranked list of careers that fit how you actually like to work.
Take the testWhat to ask for, from the gap to market, inflation, and your leverage.
Calculate a raiseThe hourly and day rate that covers take-home, expenses, unbilled time and tax.
Calculate a rateA form can tell you the job is missing from the first 40 characters. It cannot tell you whether anyone will hire you into that job. Take the rewrite to someone who has.
