What a profile is for
The profile (also called a personal statement or summary) sits under your name and tells the reader who you are, what you are good at and what you want next. Recruiters read it first, often in a few seconds, so it decides whether they read on.
A simple formula
- Who you are: job title or field and years of experience.
- Your strongest evidence: one or two results with numbers.
- What you offer: the skills the advert asks for.
- What you want: the type of role, if it helps.
How long should it be?
Three to five lines, about 50 to 100 words. Longer profiles get skimmed. Write in the first person without “I” (“Registered nurse with six years…”) or in full first person; both are fine, just be consistent.
Examples
Experienced: “Project manager with seven years delivering software projects up to R40m for banks. Delivered a core-banking migration on time and under budget with 22 people across three vendors.”
Graduate: “BCom Marketing graduate with two live campaign projects for local businesses, including a Meta Ads campaign that brought 61 online orders in three weeks.”
Career change: “Teacher of eight years moving into learning design, with experience building online courses for 300 learners and training 34 colleagues on Google Classroom.”