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LinkedIn About Section Examples for 6 Real Situations
LinkedIn About section examples for job seekers, career changers, engineers, freelancers, founders, and freshers, with the structure that makes each one work.
By Animesh Kudake, Co-founder, Apna Project
The short version
- Good LinkedIn About section examples all open with a concrete sentence about the work, because only the first two lines show before a reader has to click See more.
- Write in first person. Third person biographies read as a press release and nobody speaks about themselves that way anywhere else on the profile.
- One number, one named thing you built, and one sentence about what you want next covers most of what a recruiter is scanning for.
- The About section is not a resume summary. It answers what you are like to work with, which the experience list cannot.
- Skip the buzzword stack. Passionate, results-driven, and dynamic appear on millions of profiles and distinguish none of them.
Example two: the career changer
Twelve years in hospitality operations, now six months into a data analytics career and not looking back.
Running a 60 cover restaurant is a forecasting problem with worse tooling. I spent a decade predicting demand, managing perishable inventory, and explaining variance to owners who wanted one number. When I started learning SQL I recognised most of it.
I have finished a data analytics programme and built three projects on real hospitality data, including one that predicts covers from weather and local events. Looking for a junior analyst role where the domain knowledge is worth something.
Why it works: it refuses to apologise for the past career and reframes it as directly relevant. Career changers usually lead with the change and bury the experience. Do the opposite.
Example three: the software engineer
Backend engineer, mostly Go and Postgres, currently working on payments infrastructure.
The interesting part of payments is that everything is a state machine and every state machine eventually meets a bank that disagrees. I spend a lot of time on idempotency, reconciliation, and the boring correctness work that stops a support ticket from becoming an incident.
Nine years in, four of them at a company that went from 20 to 300 engineers, which taught me more about migrations than any of the greenfield work did.
Not looking right now. Always happy to talk about database migrations under load.
Why it works: it demonstrates the thinking rather than listing the stack. "Not looking right now" is also useful information and costs nothing to include.
Example four: the freelancer or consultant
I write documentation for developer tools. API references, quickstarts, and the migration guides nobody wants to own.
Most of my work starts the same way: a company has a good product and a docs site that quietly loses half the people who land on it. I read the support tickets first, because the questions people ask are the table of contents.
Recent work includes rewriting the getting started flow for a payments API, which cut time to first successful call from about 40 minutes to under 10 based on their own instrumentation.
Taking on two projects a quarter. If your docs are the reason your trials stall, get in touch.
Why it works: the process line tells a client what working with this person is like, and the number is theirs rather than invented. Availability plus a clear trigger for contact does the selling.
Example five: the founder
I co-founded and run a company that builds LinkedIn commenting software. Before that I spent seven years in B2B sales operations, which is where the idea came from.
The problem I care about is that the useful part of LinkedIn, showing up in other people's conversations consistently, is a habit almost nobody can sustain manually. Most tools in this space respond by promising volume. We spend most of our time on the opposite question, which is what a product should refuse to post.
I write about commenting strategy, engagement mechanics, and the honest limits of automation on this platform.
Why it works: it names the unglamorous origin, states a specific opinion, and tells people what to expect from the account. Founder About sections usually fail by being about the company. This one is about the person's angle on the problem.
Example six: the student or fresher
Final year computer science student at Delhi Technological University, focused on machine learning.
I have built two things worth mentioning. A model that classifies municipal complaint text into departments, trained on 30,000 public records from my city, currently sitting at 86 percent accuracy. And a much simpler attendance tool that about 200 students at my college actually use, which taught me more about software than the model did.
Looking for an internship or graduate role in applied ML. I am comfortable saying I am early, and I learn quickly in public.
Why it works: freshers are told to sound experienced, which reads as false. Naming what you built, with real numbers and an honest note about scale, is far more convincing than confidence.
What to cut from whatever you have now
Delete these on sight: passionate, results-driven, dynamic, seasoned, proven track record, wearing many hats, and any sentence beginning "As a." They appear on millions of profiles and distinguish none of them.
Delete the third person biography too, unless you are genuinely maintaining a press bio. It creates distance in the one place on your profile where warmth is possible.
And delete the keyword list at the bottom. It does not help you get found the way people believe, and it makes a human reader stop reading.
If you want a structural starting point rather than a blank box, the LinkedIn profile template has the fill in the blanks version, and ChatGPT prompts for the About section covers using a model as an editor rather than a ghostwriter, which is the only way that ends well.
The twenty minute version
Write the first sentence about what you do today, in the plainest words available. Write one paragraph about a specific thing you built or fixed, with a real number if you have one and no number if you do not. Write one sentence about what you want next.
Read it back and cut every adjective that is doing no work.
That is a better About section than 90 percent of the profiles you will scroll past today, and you can improve it later. The version that never gets written because it was going to be perfect is the one costing you.
Frequently asked questions
What should I write in the About section on LinkedIn?
Open with what you actually do, in one plain sentence. Add two or three lines of evidence, meaning a specific project, a number, or a problem you solved. Close with what you want next so a reader knows why to contact you. Three short paragraphs is a complete About section.
Should the LinkedIn About section be first person or third person?
First person, in almost every case. Third person reads as a corporate biography and creates distance exactly where you want warmth. The exception is people whose About section doubles as a speaker or press bio, and even then the first person version usually performs better with recruiters.
How long should a LinkedIn About section be?
Long enough to say something, short enough to be read. Three to five short paragraphs suits most people. The critical constraint is the first two lines, since everything after that sits behind a See more click that most readers never make.
Do I need an About section if my experience is detailed?
Yes. The experience list says where you worked and what the roles were called. The About section says how you think and what you are looking for now, which is the part a recruiter or a potential client is actually trying to work out before they message you.
Written by the team building Commenti on real LinkedIn growth data. Found an error? Tell us and we’ll fix it. Accuracy beats winning.
Co-founder, Apna Project
Co-founder at Apna Project, where he helps founders and agencies turn ideas into products. Writes here on LinkedIn growth and what actually earns attention in a comment section. Commenti is the LinkedIn comment automation tool by Ampliflow.
Most LinkedIn About section examples you find online are aspirational paragraphs written by people whose job is writing paragraphs. They read beautifully and they are almost impossible to imitate, because the writer had nothing specific to say and filled the space with cadence.
What follows is the opposite. Six About sections for six situations, each built from the same three part structure, each short enough that you could write your version in twenty minutes.
The structure, before the examples: what you do, then evidence, then what you want next. That is it. Everything else is decoration.
The rule that beats every template
Only the first two lines are visible before the See more cut. Everything past that is a click, and most readers never make it.
So the first sentence cannot be a warm up. It cannot be "I have always been fascinated by technology." It has to be the most concrete true thing about your work.
Compare:
The second is duller to write and dramatically better to read, because it tells someone whether to keep going. The exact character allowance and where the fold lands are covered in how long your LinkedIn About section should be.
Example one: the job seeker between roles
Why it works: the specific project does the persuading, the published error rate signals how they operate, and the last line is an invitation rather than a plea.