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LinkedIn Headline Examples That Get Recruiter Inbound (2026)

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Your LinkedIn headline is a search index field. Pack it with role + specialties separated by '·' — recruiters search on title strings.

Headline formulas that rank

Role · Specialty 1 · Specialty 2 · Differentiator.

  • Senior PM · B2B SaaS · AI · Growth
  • Staff Engineer · Distributed Systems · Rust · ex-Stripe
  • VP Marketing · Demand Gen · ABM · Series B → IPO

What to drop

Things that waste your 220 characters.

  • 'Helping companies…' taglines (no keyword density)
  • Emoji-heavy intros (lower recruiter search relevance)
  • Generic company names without your function

Open-to-Work + skills

Set Open-to-Work to recruiters-only and pin top 3 skills.

  • Recruiter-only Open-to-Work avoids public 'green ring'
  • Top 3 pinned skills should match your target JD vocabulary
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