LinkedIn

How to get your LinkedIn profile URL

Your LinkedIn URL goes on résumés, email signatures, conference badges, and “let's connect” messages. Here's how to find it, clean it up, and have it ready before the other person finds a pen.

Find your LinkedIn URL

On the mobile app

1. Tap your profile photo → View profile.
2. Tap ⋯ (More) below your headline.
3. Tap Share profile, then Copy.

On desktop

1. Click Me → View profile.
2. Copy the URL from the address bar — linkedin.com/in/….

Customize it first (worth 60 seconds)

New accounts get a URL like linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-8a41b2196. You can drop the random suffix:

1. On desktop, open your profile and click Edit public profile & URL (top right).
2. Under Edit your custom URL, click the pencil and set something clean like linkedin.com/in/janedoe.

A custom URL looks better on a résumé, is easier to say out loud, and survives being retyped.

Have it ready when it matters

LinkedIn links get asked for at the worst times — end of an interview, hallway of a conference, closing line of a call. Fumbling through the LinkedIn app's menus while someone waits is the exact moment Profile Bud removes:

• Save your custom URL once; swipe right → copied, paste into the chat or email while the conversation is still warm.
• Keep LinkedIn in your Business profile next to your portfolio site and GitHub — one share sends a recruiter everything relevant, and nothing that isn't.
• Use a custom share template to send a tidy signature block: name, LinkedIn, website — formatted the same way every time.

Good to know

• Changing your custom URL breaks the old one — do it once, early, and keep it.
• Your public profile settings control what non-connections see at that URL; review them before putting the link on a résumé.