Your LinkedIn profile should make your professional direction easier to understand.
The Career Standard helps students and professionals strengthen how their experience and professional direction are presented across LinkedIn. The goal is a profile that feels complete, consistent, and easier to understand.
A strong profile should add context, not repeat a résumé line for line.
LinkedIn gives employers and professional contacts a broader view of your background. The profile should connect the headline, summary, experience, and overall presentation into one clear professional story.
Professional headline
Clarify the direction and value your profile communicates at first glance.
About section
Create a focused introduction to your background, strengths, and next step.
Experience presentation
Present roles and responsibilities with consistent language and useful context.
Overall profile consistency
Make the profile feel connected to the résumé and the professional direction being pursued.
The profile should reflect both the experience you have and the direction you are building toward.
Students and professionals need different forms of emphasis. The profile should remain credible while helping the reader understand what comes next.
Students
Student profiles may draw from education, projects, internships, volunteer work, and early employment. The goal is to present developing experience with enough context to feel professional and intentional.
Professionals
Professional profiles should make career progression, expertise, transferable value, and future direction easier to recognize. The emphasis should support the roles and opportunities being pursued.
Your résumé and LinkedIn profile should support the same professional story.
The two materials do not need to say the same thing in the same way. They should, however, agree on the core facts, priorities, and direction of your experience. Consistency helps the overall presentation feel deliberate and credible.
Start with a service inquiry.
Standard Service begins with a short interest form and a recommendation by email. You can also use the form to ask about Expedited Service. Online ordering is currently unavailable.
Standard Service
Tell TCS about your goals and current LinkedIn profile. You will receive a service recommendation and next steps by email.
Expedited Service
If LinkedIn Revamp is the right fit, include it in your request. TCS will follow up by email.