What goes in your LinkedIn About section?

Answer three questions about your work. You get an About section ready to paste, and you see the lines LinkedIn shows before “see more”.

Your nameYour headline sits here, above the About section

AboutExample

I spent eight years running operations before I started building software for the people who do it. Our team is six, the product does one thing well, and most of it exists because something broke on my watch and cost us a week. My time goes between customer calls

…see more

and the roadmap that comes out of them. If your team still starts Monday by copying numbers between tabs, that is the conversation I like having. I am also hiring two engineers this year, so get in touch if you build things you can explain to a customer.

Everything above the line is what LinkedIn shows first.

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  1. 2,600characters allowed in About
  2. ~265characters before “see more”
  3. 2paragraphs, first person
  4. 0emojis, no hashtags

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What your LinkedIn About section has to do

The same three jobs, done differently depending on who is reading you. The row that matches your pick is marked.

A LinkedIn summary is the About section of a profile. LinkedIn allows up to 2,600 characters there, but only shows about the first three lines, roughly 265 characters, before the “see more” link.

Matches the profile you picked
Structure used by the MagicPost summary generator. The About section is one text field, not a form: these parts are read in order.
ProfileOpen withWhat to proveWhat to ask for
FounderThe problem you got tired ofWhat you have shipped, and for whomA demo, a hire, a partner
Freelance or consultantWho you take on, and whenOne result a client would repeat out loudA first call, with the scope named
Looking for a jobThe work you want next, in one lineTwo things you owned from start to finishAn introduction to the team that needs it
Employed expertThe niche you actually knowWhat you have seen often enough to have a view onThe conversation you want to be in

Your About section says who you are once. Your posts prove it every week. MagicPost writes them from what you have already published.

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How it works

How the About section gets written

  1. Two paragraphs from three answers

    You say what you do, who you help and what you want out of LinkedIn. Those three lines become two paragraphs, written in the first person.

  2. It writes in the language you answered in

    Write your answers in Dutch and the About section comes back in Dutch. The generator works from your own words, with no language menu and no translation step afterwards.

  3. The first lines carry the rest

    LinkedIn folds the About section after about three lines. The preview draws that cut, so the sentence worth reading ends up above it.

Your next step

Your profile says it once, your posts say it weekly

A summary is the page people open after a post they liked. MagicPost writes those posts from what you have already published, so the profile and the feed tell the same story.

  • The same first person, everywhere. MagicPost drafts in the voice your About section just settled on, not in a model's default register.

  • Your profile and your feed agree. The About section says what you do once, and the posts show it, week after week, in the same first person.

  • One place to write and publish. Drafts, edits and the queue sit on the same screen, so a post never stalls between two tools.

What is a LinkedIn summary?

It is the About section of your profile, the text under your headline. LinkedIn allows 2,600 characters there and shows about the first three lines before the “see more” link. You edit it from your profile, in the About block, with the pencil icon.

Does it write in my language?

Yes. The generator answers in the language you type your answers in, so French answers give a French About section. Nothing is translated afterwards, which is what usually makes a profile read like a bad import.

Is the summary ready to paste?

Two paragraphs, first person, no emojis and no hashtags. Read the first line before you paste it: that one is shown to everyone who lands on your profile, and it is the one worth making yours.

Do I need an account?

No. The generator is free and asks for nothing. A free MagicPost account is for the step after, writing the posts that send people to the profile you just fixed. Write LinkedIn posts in your own voice with MagicPost

Keep going with MagicPost

The tool does one step. MagicPost does the week.

Writing, formatting, the queue and the numbers in one place, so publishing stops depending on the day you feel like it.

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The profile is done. Now the posts.

MagicPost drafts from what you have already published, keeps your first person and lines the posts up in your queue, so the profile people read stays true.

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