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Free LinkedIn profile review

Recruiters search. You do not come up.

LinkedIn recruiter search runs a hard filter first and ranks second. This tells you which is happening to you: whether you are invisible, or just placed low. Free, and your file never leaves your browser.

A profile card sitting outside a list of recruiter search results, connected by a dashed line to the empty slot where it should have appeared.
1 On LinkedIn: your profile, then More, then Save to PDF 2 Drop it below 3 Fix the blockers first

Drop your LinkedIn export, or browse

Read on your device. Never uploaded, never stored, no signup.

  • Runs in your browser
  • Nothing uploaded
  • Free, no account

Two different problems, and only one of them is about writing

Blocks you

You are not in the list at all

Recruiter search retrieves before it ranks, using quoted exact phrases with no wildcards. If your title says "Growth Ninja", a search for "Marketing Manager" never sees you. No amount of good writing fixes that. These are binary, and you can verify every one yourself.

Moves you up

You are in the list, lower than you should be

Once you are retrieved, a ranking model decides order. Fuller sections, real hard skills, and a specific opening all help here. These improve your odds. They are not guarantees, and we label them that way.

Most tools mix these together and score you out of 100 as if every item mattered equally. They do not.

What this tool will not do

These are popular. They are also either against LinkedIn's rules, provably useless, or simply untrue, so we refuse them on purpose.

Questions

Why not just paste my LinkedIn URL?

LinkedIn blocks automated profile reading and requires a login, so URL-based tools are either unreliable or doing something LinkedIn prohibits. LinkedIn gives you its own export instead. Reading that in your browser is accurate, permitted, and private.

What can you not check?

Quite a lot, and we list it on your results rather than quietly scoring it: your Featured section, banner, the Industry dropdown, your verification badge, how skills are tagged to roles, and your recruiter-visibility settings. None of those survive the export, so we refuse to score them.

How many skills does LinkedIn allow?

The Help Center says 100 as of August 2026, up from 50. LinkedIn's own talent blog still says 50, so their properties disagree. We treat the Help Center as operative, and if the field stops you earlier, trust the field.

Does this work for Indeed?

Partly, and the honest answer is that Indeed is a different problem. One setting dominates everything: if your resume visibility is Private, employers searching Indeed cannot find you at all, no matter what your profile says. Check that first.

Is it really free?

Yes, and it stays free. We make money when people pay for Bounce Pro to rebuild their resume. The reviews and the resume scan are free forever.