Turn your LinkedIn profile into a real resume

LinkedIn profiles and resumes are different documents. Profiles are long, conversational, and light on numbers. Resumes need to be short, achievement-focused, and tailored to a specific job. This prompt bridges the gap — it takes your LinkedIn content, asks the right questions, and generates a proper resume.

Before you start: Go to your LinkedIn profile, click More → Save to PDF. Open the PDF, select all (Ctrl+A / Cmd+A), and copy the text. That’s what you’ll paste below.

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude, or your AI tool. Fill in the brackets.

I want to turn my LinkedIn profile into a professional resume. I'm going to paste my profile content and answer some questions. Then I need you to generate a clean, ATS-friendly resume.

**My LinkedIn profile:**
[Paste the text from your LinkedIn PDF export here. It's fine if the formatting is messy — paste it all.]

Before you generate anything, interview me. Ask me these questions one at a time and wait for my answers:

1. **What role are you targeting?** Give me a specific job title and industry. If you have a job description you're applying to, paste it here too.

2. **What are your 3-5 biggest professional achievements?** Think about the things you're most proud of — projects you led, problems you solved, numbers you moved. These probably aren't on your LinkedIn profile in enough detail. Give me the specifics: what did you do, what was the result, and what numbers can you put on it?

3. **What's missing from your LinkedIn?** Are there skills, projects, certifications, or accomplishments that aren't on your profile? Side projects, volunteer work, internal initiatives that never made it to LinkedIn?

4. **What do you want to emphasize?** What parts of your background are most relevant to your target role? What should go near the top?

5. **What should we downplay or cut?** Are there roles or experiences that aren't relevant to where you're going? Old jobs you'd rather not feature prominently?

6. **Any format preferences?** One page or two? Do you want a skills section? Any specific sections (like "Projects" or "Certifications") that matter for your target role?

After I answer all six questions, generate my resume following these rules:

**Structure:**
- Professional summary (2-3 sentences, tailored to my target role, with a headline metric)
- Professional experience (reverse chronological, 3-4 bullet points per role)
- Education
- Skills section (only if relevant to the target role)
- Any additional sections I requested

**Bullet point rules:**
- Every bullet must include a metric (number, percentage, dollar amount, team size, volume)
- Use this formula: [Action verb] + [what you did] + [measurable result]
- Use the exact terminology from the job description if I provided one
- No "responsible for" or "involved in" — only active, specific language
- If my LinkedIn description doesn't have enough detail, use what I told you in the interview questions to fill in the gaps

**Formatting rules:**
- Single-column layout
- Standard fonts only (Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman)
- Standard section headers: "Professional Experience," "Education," "Skills"
- No graphics, tables, columns, or skill bars
- Ready to paste into a Word doc or Google Doc

**Important:**
- This should NOT read like a LinkedIn profile. No first-person. No conversational tone. No "passionate about" or "I love."
- Cut aggressively. One page unless I said two. Only include what supports my target role.
- If I didn't give you enough metrics, tell me which bullets need numbers and ask me for them. Don't just skip them.

Tips

• Paste your actual LinkedIn PDF text, not a cleaned-up version. The messier the input, the more the prompt has to work with. It’ll sort through the formatting.
• Be specific in your answers. When it asks about achievements, don’t say “I improved the process.” Say “I reduced report generation time from 3 hours to 20 minutes by building an automated pipeline in Python.” The specificity of your answers directly determines the quality of the resume.
• Paste a job description if you have one. The output is dramatically better when it can match your experience to a specific role’s language.
• Run it again for different roles. Save the base version, then re-run with a different target job title or JD. This is the fastest way to generate tailored resumes for multiple applications.
• Pair with the ATS resume fix prompt if you want to check the output for formatting issues, or the resume tailoring prompt for fine-tuning against a specific job description.
• For more on what makes LinkedIn-to-resume conversion tricky, read our guide on turning your LinkedIn into a resume.