Linkedin Experience Section Content Development Guide

Based on #1Job1Offer principles

Purpose of the Experience Section

This section should not read like your resume. It is not a place for job descriptions or bullet dumps. It is where you position the relevance of your past roles to your current goals or next move—especially if you’re making a transition.

Your job here:
Show how each role built skills, credibility, and direction — not just what you were hired to do.

LinkedIn gives you up to 2,000 characters per role because it expects you to show context, not tasks.

Why Most People Get This Wrong

They either:
❌ Copy and paste resume bullets
❌ Drop in HR job descriptions
❌ List titles with no explanation
❌ Ignore transferable value
❌ Assume people will “get it” from a title alone

All of these approaches result in being overlooked — especially in a career shift, reentry, or growth move.

Use Themes to Frame Your Roles

Instead of listing duties, anchor each position around the theme of the work.

Examples of themes:

• Operations & Coordination

• Client / Patient / Customer Support

• Administrative Workflow

• Training & Onboarding

• Systems or Compliance

• Project Support

• Data & Reporting

• Service Delivery

• Community Engagement

Starting with a theme lets you position the role toward where you're going, not just where you were.

Recommended Experience Structure

Use this six-part structure to replace resume-style entries:

1. Theme of the Role

Lead with the function or focus, not the title.

✔ Example: “Operations & Team Coordination”
✔ Example: “Client Support & Intake Logistics”

2. Scope

Describe the environment or scale of the work.

• Team size

• Population served

• Setting or industry

• Type of workflow or demand

3. Role

What were you responsible for within that theme?

• Core responsibilities

• Support functions

• Problems you helped solve

• Who you worked with or for

4. Contribution / Impact

Highlight how you affected the work — not what was on the job description.

Examples:

• Improved a process

• Supported other teams

• Increased efficiency or communication

• Created structure or solved workflow gaps

This can be written with or without numbers.

5. Skills Applied, Practiced, or Developed

Call out the skills that connect to your next move.

• Tools/tech

• Transferable competencies

• Soft + hard skills

• Industry-specific knowledge

Can be worked into sentences or listed in a line at the end.

6. Lessons Carried Forward

This is especially important for career changers.

You can phrase it as:

• “What I learned in this role that I still apply today…”

• “This role strengthened my ability to…”

• “Lessons I carried forward into my current work include…”

Example Entry (Career Transition-Friendly)

Client Support & Coordination — Healthcare Setting
Supported a 10-person team responsible for intake scheduling, documentation processing, and cross-department communication.

Worked directly with administrative staff and service providers to streamline client workflows, respond to changing priorities, and track follow-up activity. Helped reduce delays by improving communication between departments.

Skills applied and developed: Communication, task coordination, CRM software, documentation accuracy, client-facing support

Lessons carried forward: The importance of process clarity, proactive follow-up, and adapting workflows to moving targets

Final Reminder

Your Experience section should not read like a backward-facing report of what you were hired to do — it should read like a forward-facing proof of what you’re capable of now.

When someone scans your past roles, they should walk away with:

• A sense of your themes

• Evidence of your working style and contributions

• Clues about your skills and strengths

• Signals about your next move