Career · 2026-08-22 · 11 min read

LinkedIn URL on your CV: custom, text, no QR

How to put a LinkedIn link on a résumé: custom URL, as text, no QR or bit.ly. This is not profile alignment (that is another guide). ClarCV.

The LinkedIn URL on a CV is a contact field, not an essay. The recruiter pastes it in a browser, or ATS extracts it if it is text. A blue icon, a QR, or linkedin.com/in/ana-lopez-9381b02a fail in different ways: the parser does not follow the pictogram, HR’s phone does not scan a QR on a PDF, and a numbered slug looks like an abandoned profile. This guide is only the link. Aligning titles and dates with the profile is a different piece: LinkedIn and CV.

Cleanup siblings: checklist and what not to include. ClarCV leaves LinkedIn in the header as text. Free: 3 analyses and 2 downloads / 30 days, no card. Pro €7/month. We do not edit your LinkedIn profile.

You do not paste the whole About into the PDF. You paste a short URL that opens the right profile.

Customise the slug (five minutes)

On LinkedIn: Identity → public URL → Edit. linkedin.com/in/ana-lopez-pm or /in/analopez. Lowercase, hyphens, no accents if they break. Drop the random hash from when you signed up. If your name is taken, add the role or city: /in/ana-lopez-madrid. That is the string that goes on the CV, not the full URL with ?trk= from a notification.

• On the PDF: linkedin.com/in/your-slug (you can omit https://).
• Hyperlink the same text. Not “click here”.
• No bit.ly, TinyURL, or QR: ATS does not resolve them the same way and they look like tracking.
• No linkedin.com/feed and no URL of a post.
• If you have a company Page, the personal profile is what goes on a candidate CV.

Where it goes (contact line, not a box)

Before: a circular LinkedIn button in the margin, without the word. After: Email · Phone · linkedin.com/in/ana-lopez · Madrid. The parser looks for “linkedin”; the human copies. Do not use an icon column. Do not list three networks if you are not community: personal Instagram is surplus. Portfolio or GitHub yes, on the same line, also as text. Tech guide: projects and GitHub.

What not to copy from the profile onto the PDF

The CV is not a dump: not the 20 recommendations, not the banner, not “open to work” as the only headline. The LinkedIn headline can be longer; the PDF headline is the target job. Dates and employers must match — that belongs in the alignment guide. The typical fail here is a QR to a stale profile or a link to /in/name-12345 you no longer use.