Connect your resume, LinkedIn profile, and portfolio with a clear story

Give the three pieces different jobs and consistent facts

Use the resume to prioritize evidence for a particular vacancy. Use the profile to explain your wider experience and interests. Use the portfolio for selected outputs that a reader can inspect. You can change the emphasis without changing the underlying facts.

Check job titles, employment dates, education, and credentials across all three. If you explain an unfamiliar title with a short description, keep the official title recognizable. A career-change introduction can show where you are heading without claiming you already held the target role.

Write a headline that helps someone place your work

A practical headline names a role or starting point and one or two relevant capabilities. Avoid filling the space with broad claims such as expert, visionary, or best-in-class unless there is a clear, appropriate basis. Specific work is easier to understand.

If you are beginning a career, say what you are preparing for and what you have practiced. Do not add a senior title merely because it is your goal. Keep the wording accurate enough to use in a real introduction.

Make the About section sound like a clear introduction

Begin with the work you do or the role you are working toward. Add a few examples of tasks or projects, explain the problems you like solving, and finish with an appropriate way to connect. First person can work well here because the section is an introduction rather than a list of resume bullets.

Read the draft for claims you would struggle to explain in a conversation. Replace a broad promise with an example. If AI helps you draft, correct anything it adds about years, tools, results, or industries that is not in your actual background.

Choose work samples that explain your contribution

Two well-explained projects can be more useful than a long gallery with no context. For each sample, state the problem, your role, what you made, and the result or completed output. Label school, personal, and simulated work accurately.

Use material you are allowed to share. Remove client data, internal records, private contact details, and credentials. If a genuine work sample cannot be published, create a clearly labeled demonstration using fictional information rather than exposing someone else’s documents.

• A short title that tells the reader what the project is.
• A description of your contribution, separate from the team’s.
• The tools and methods you actually used.
• A relevant output or link with working permissions.
• A clear label for practice work or fictional data.

Choose deliberately between public and private sharing

A public portfolio is intended to be available to anyone with its URL. Before publishing, review every visible field and decide whether to enable a resume download. A portfolio can reveal personal information even if it is not listed in search results.

ResumeTidy’s Career plan includes an optional Personal Portfolio Page with publication and resume-download controls. Job Hunt and Career also include a different tool: a private share link for a finalized resume, with a password, expiry, and revoke controls. Revoking a link cannot remove a copy that someone already downloaded.

Test the experience as a visitor

Open your links in a signed-out window and on a phone. Confirm that samples open, text is readable, and download settings match your intention. Check that the resume links back to the correct profile and that an old project does not imply a qualification you no longer claim.

The Career plan’s LinkedIn headline and About drafts use one credit per successful result. ResumeTidy prepares copy for your review; it does not publish to LinkedIn for you. Read the current plan details before choosing the tools that fit your search.