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FILE 0x85·EVERCV WRITES YOUR LINKEDIN HEADLINE AND ABOUT SECTION

EverCV writes your LinkedIn headline and About section

June 13, 2026 · evercv, linkedin, career, job-search, ai, haiku

LinkedIn recruiter search works on keywords and headline scanning. Most engineers treat the headline as an afterthought — it stays as the auto-generated "[Title] at [Company]" for years. The About section either doesn't exist or reads like a cover letter from 2017.

EverCV now generates both, from your actual CV.


What it generates

Headline (≤220 characters): The most-read field on a LinkedIn profile after your name. It needs to do three things: surface the right keywords for recruiter search, communicate your actual expertise level, and not sound like everyone else. The generated headline uses your primary skill areas, highlights what you've shipped rather than what you know, and stays within LinkedIn's character limit (with a red indicator in the dashboard at 210+ characters so you know you're close).

About section (200–400 words, first-person): A narrative that reads like a human wrote it — because Haiku has been instructed to avoid every cliché the model would otherwise reach for: "passionate," "results-driven," "innovative thinker," "dynamic," "thought leader." The About section draws from your CV's actual work history and ships projects, not just roles.


Why clichés are the enemy

The reason most LinkedIn About sections are useless: they're written in the language of what the person wants to be seen as rather than what they've actually done. "Passionate software engineer with 8 years of experience helping companies achieve their goals" says nothing. A recruiter reads it and knows nothing about you that they didn't know from your headline.

The EverCV optimizer prompt is explicit: no "passionate," no "results-driven," no generic value language. If the model can't write a first-person sentence that references something specific from your CV, it doesn't write it.

The output might be less smooth than a human copywriter. But it will be specific, and specific beats smooth for LinkedIn profiles.


The character limit for headlines

LinkedIn's headline limit is 220 characters. That's short. The generated headline is designed to stay under 210 to give you room to make small edits without going over.

The dashboard shows a character counter for the headline. It turns red at 210+, which is your signal that if you want to add anything, you need to cut something first.


One-click copy

Both the headline and the About section have separate copy buttons in the dashboard. Click, paste into LinkedIn, done. No reformatting needed — the plain text output is already what LinkedIn expects.