Free LinkedIn profile audit
The Fitting Room’s free Fit Check compares your LinkedIn® profile against a public 100-point checklist. Upload your profile PDF or paste the text, and in about a minute you see your score and the fixes that matter most, in order. It runs in your browser, and it never asks you to sign in to LinkedIn.
What do you get from the free Fit Check?
Bring in your current look: upload your LinkedIn profile as a PDF or paste its text, pick one goal, and type the role you want next. The Fit Check then checks the fit and gives you:
- Your % optimized, from a public 100-point checklist
- Section-by-section breakdown
- Your top 5 fixes, ranked by impact
On your results you can also say how you’re searching (actively looking, quietly open, or happy where you are), so the fixes fit your situation, and tick off things a profile can’t show, like whether your identity is verified.
The Full Report ($39 one-time) adds the parts that are written for you:
- Rewritten headline + alternatives
- About section draft (no invented numbers)
- Skills to add for your target titles
- Exact Open to Work & location settings
- Step-by-step next steps + full Fit Formula checklist
Here is what each Fitting Room plan adds and costs.
What do the 100 points check?
The Fit Formula is the Fit Check’s 100-point checklist. Its points check 19 items in three tiers: 70 points for 8 items cited from LinkedIn’s own pages, 25 points for 6 patterns The Fitting Room has observed, and 5 points for 5 items that are The Fitting Room’s opinion.
LinkedIn doesn’t publish how it ranks profiles, so how many points each item is worth is The Fitting Room’s own judgment. Tier 1 items are cited from LinkedIn’s own Help, Talent Blog and Engineering pages, and Tier 2 items are patterns The Fitting Room has observed. Each Tier 1 and Tier 2 item below links the LinkedIn pages behind it, and your free results link them too, so you can check them yourself. The Tier 3 items have no LinkedIn source, and the table and your results label them as opinion. Items that don’t apply to how you’re searching drop out, so your score is out of what applies to you.
Tier 1. Cited from LinkedIn’s own pages (70 points)
Each item links the LinkedIn Help, Talent Blog or Engineering page it is based on.
| Item | Points | What the audit checks | LinkedIn source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title match | 14 | Whether your current job title is a standard title for the jobs you want. A close variant gets half. | LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Search filters and definitions; LinkedIn Talent Blog: How to get more out of AI-assisted search in LinkedIn Recruiter (May 29, 2024); LinkedIn Engineering Blog: AI behind LinkedIn Recruiter search and recommendation systems (April 22, 2019) |
| Target skills listed | 14 | How many of the top 10 skills for your target jobs are in your Skills section. | LinkedIn Help: Find how you match up with jobs on LinkedIn; LinkedIn Talent Blog: How to get more out of AI-assisted search in LinkedIn Recruiter (May 29, 2024) |
| Open to Work set up | 10 | Whether LinkedIn’s Open to Work feature is on, with standard titles and locations, and with the visibility that fits how you’re searching. You confirm this one. | LinkedIn Help: Let recruiters know you’re Open to Work; LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Spotlights in Recruiter, RPS+, and Recruiter Lite; LinkedIn Help: Job recommendations based on your preferences and profile |
| Location and workplace preferences | 8 | The metro area on your profile (5), and your remote or relocation preferences when they apply to you (3). | LinkedIn Help: Search by location in Recruiter and Recruiter Lite; LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Search filters and definitions; LinkedIn Help: Job recommendations based on your preferences and profile |
| Spotlight signals | 8 | Identity verified (3), following your target companies (3), and a profile updated in the last 60 days (2). You confirm these. | LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Spotlights in Recruiter, RPS+, and Recruiter Lite; LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Search filters and definitions |
| All-Star completeness | 7 | One point each for a photo, location, industry, education, current position, skills and a summary. | LinkedIn Help: Use the profile level meter to update your profile |
| Years of experience readable | 5 | Every role shows the year it started and the year it ended, or Present. A senior title listed as your only role gets half. | LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Search filters and definitions |
| Endorsements on top skills | 4 | Whether your top target skills have endorsements. You confirm this. | LinkedIn Help: Skill endorsements |
Tier 2. The Fitting Room’s observed patterns (25 points)
Scored against the job posts you add, or against common skills for your field if you add none. The reasoning comes from the LinkedIn pages linked beside each item; how much each one matters is The Fitting Room’s estimate.
Tier 3. Opinion (5 points)
Nice to have. No LinkedIn source ties these to search, so each gets one point.
| Item | Points | What the audit checks | LinkedIn source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recommendations | 1 | Two or more recent recommendations. | No LinkedIn source (opinion) |
| Featured proof items | 1 | A Featured section that shows your work. | No LinkedIn source (opinion) |
| Custom banner | 1 | A banner image of your own instead of the default. | No LinkedIn source (opinion) |
| Custom URL | 1 | A profile address without a random string of letters and numbers at the end. Read from your profile text when it shows the address; otherwise you confirm it. | No LinkedIn source (opinion) |
| Recent post | 1 | You posted in the last 90 days. | No LinkedIn source (opinion) |
“You confirm” items can’t be read from a profile PDF, so they count as zero until you tick them off in your to-do list. The audit also shows a few warnings that carry no points, such as a public Open to Work frame when you’re searching quietly.
How you’re searching changes a few items. In “Happy where I am”, Open to Work isn’t scored. In “Quietly open”, the recent-post point becomes a no-points reminder about risky posts, because the audit can’t see your posts. In “Actively looking”, replying to recruiters counts 4 points instead of 2, and the banner and custom URL drop out.
Have a job? Read what your employer can see on LinkedIn, and what a quiet search changes in your score.
How do you save your LinkedIn profile as a PDF?
On a computer, open your profile, click More or Resources in its introduction section, and select Save to PDF (LinkedIn Help: Save a profile as a PDF). Step by step, as LinkedIn’s help page gives them:
- Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage, then View profile.
- In the introduction section at the top of your profile, click More (or Resources).
- Select Save to PDF from the dropdown.
Save to PDF isn’t available in the LinkedIn mobile app. It works only when your profile and your language setting are in English, and LinkedIn notes it may not be available to every member (LinkedIn Help: Save a profile as a PDF).
LinkedIn allows 200 profile PDF downloads a month, counting your own profile and other members’ (LinkedIn Help: Save a profile as a PDF).
If the PDF won’t work for you, copy the text from your profile page (headline, About, Experience, Skills) and paste it into the audit instead.
Is the free Fit Check private?
The free Fit Check never asks you to sign in to LinkedIn: you upload your own PDF or paste the text. It runs in your browser, and your text is kept only in this tab until you close it, so a reload doesn’t lose your results. Each new visit starts with a blank form. If you buy the Full Report, your text stays on this device so your report is there when you come back.
It doesn’t ask for your profile’s web address, and it doesn’t go and read your LinkedIn page: the audit works only from the PDF or text you give it.
Can a free AI chat tool do this?
Opinion Yes, you can paste your profile into any AI chat tool and ask for feedback, and that’s a reasonable free option. The difference with The Fitting Room’s audit is that every item and its points are public, on this page. It also checks settings that LinkedIn’s Recruiter search filters use, such as your location and the dates on your roles, as LinkedIn’s Recruiter help page describes them (LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Search filters and definitions). The same profile and answers get the same score every time, so you can see what each change does.
Want the whole picture first? Read how The Fitting Room works, from the free Fit Check to the Full Report.
Sources
- LinkedIn Help: Save a profile as a PDF (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Search filters and definitions (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Talent Blog: How to get more out of AI-assisted search in LinkedIn Recruiter (May 29, 2024) (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Engineering Blog: AI behind LinkedIn Recruiter search and recommendation systems (April 22, 2019) (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Find how you match up with jobs on LinkedIn (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Let recruiters know you’re Open to Work (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Recruiter Help: Spotlights in Recruiter, RPS+, and Recruiter Lite (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Job recommendations based on your preferences and profile (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Search by location in Recruiter and Recruiter Lite (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Use the profile level meter to update your profile (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Skill endorsements (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn: AI explainability of Hire products (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Edit your headline (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Engineering Blog: Building LinkedIn’s Skills Graph (November 30, 2022) (read Oct 6, 2026)
- LinkedIn Pressroom: Hiring Assistant 2 (read Oct 10, 2026)