LinkedIn consistency check
Compares your CV with your LinkedIn "Save to PDF" export and cites both sides of every mismatch.
Upload your CV and the PDF you get from LinkedIn (More, then Save to PDF). The check reports:
- Date mismatches between a role in the CV and the same role on the profile.
- Different titles for the same role.
- Skills listed in the CV that the profile never mentions.
- A profile headline that points at a different role from the CV headline.
Both files are read in your browser. Every inconsistency quotes the CV and the profile side by side.
How does the CV and LinkedIn consistency check work?
The LinkedIn consistency check compares your CV with the PDF that LinkedIn gives you under More, then Save to PDF, and lists where the two documents disagree. Each mismatch quotes the CV side and the profile side next to each other.
You choose both files, either PDF, DOCX or plain text, and press Compare. The export is read as you downloaded it: nothing is scraped from LinkedIn. The parser knows that these exports print most lines twice and that dates carry a duration label after a middot, so it collapses duplicates and reads the dates with the same date parser the CV goes through. Section headings are recognised in English, Turkish and German, for example Experience, Deneyim and Berufserfahrung. The result starts with a count of roles paired and skills compared.
What does the check compare between my CV and my LinkedIn profile?
The check reports four kinds of mismatch: different dates for the same role, different titles for the same role, CV skills the profile never mentions, and a profile headline that points at a different role than the CV headline.
Roles are paired by the overlap of company words first and title words second, and a role with no plausible partner is left out of the comparison. Dates may differ by one month before they are flagged; a role that is open on one side and ended on the other is flagged too. Titles are compared after case folding. Skills are looked up in the whole profile text, not only its Skills list, using the same matching and synonym table as keyword scoring, so a CI/CD entry can be found as continuous integration.
| Check | Flagged when | What is quoted |
|---|---|---|
| Date mismatch | Start or end differ by more than one month, or one side is still open | The role and its dates from both documents |
| Title mismatch | The two titles differ after case folding | The role line from both documents |
| Skill only in CV | A CV skill appears nowhere in the profile text | The CV skills group and the profile skills |
| Headline mismatch | The two headlines share no meaningful word | Both headlines |
Example: what does a reported mismatch look like?
A reported mismatch names the problem in one sentence and then shows both quotes. For a title mismatch, the CV side might read “Senior QA Engineer, Nordwind Logistik: 2021-03 to present” and the profile side “QA Engineer, Nordwind Logistik: Mar 2021 - Present”.
The sentence above those two lines would say that the role carries two different titles and that recruiters notice when the two documents sit side by side. For a skill, the report says the CV claims it and the profile never mentions it, and lists the profile skills so you can see what is there. When no mismatch is found, the page says so. Notes on the export, such as an entry with no title line or an export with no Experience section, appear below the result so you know when the profile file itself was only partly readable.
What does the LinkedIn check not do?
The LinkedIn consistency check does not log in to LinkedIn, fetch your profile, rewrite either document or change your score. It reports differences and leaves the decision about which side is right to you.
It also cannot see anything the Save to PDF export leaves out, and it only reads what the export prints. A mismatch is not always an error: a shortened title on a CV can be a deliberate choice. The check does not say how a recruiter will judge the difference. The page states that both files are read in your browser and that nothing on that page is uploaded, which is separate from the stored analysis of a CV in the analyzer.
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