# LinkedIn profile import

Yes. Give the AI career agent your public linkedin.com/in/ profile URL and it imports your headline, work history, education, and skills in the background, a process that can take a few minutes, and reports the structured result back to you once it's done. The raw scraped data itself is never shown anywhere in the app; only the extracted summary is.

Typing years of work history into a resume from memory is tedious and error-prone, especially dates and titles from jobs a while back. If your LinkedIn is already current, importing it gives the agent a real starting point instead of asking you to reconstruct everything by hand.

The import only works from a public profile URL, since the underlying tool reads the same public page anyone could view without logging in. It can't reach a private profile, and it can't log in as you to pull data LinkedIn only shows to signed-in viewers.

## How the import runs

You give the agent your profile URL, something like linkedin.com/in/yourname, and it calls import_linkedin_profile, which starts a background job rather than blocking the conversation. That's worth knowing going in: it can take a few minutes, so the agent tells you it's running and you can keep talking about other things, then check back with get_linkedin_profile once it's likely done. If you ask before it's finished, that same tool reports the status honestly, still running, failed, or never started, rather than guessing at data that isn't there yet.

Once it completes, get_linkedin_profile returns the structured result: your headline, work history, education, and skills as scraped from the public page. The raw pull itself never surfaces in the app; what you get is this processed summary. You can optionally have the import chain straight into building a resume from that data and saving it to your library, so the whole thing, import plus a first draft, can run from one request if that's what you want.

## Importing from a public profile

You tell the agent: "here's my LinkedIn, linkedin.com/in/jane, use it to fill in my work history." It shows you an approval card explaining that it's about to import that profile in the background, and once you approve, import_linkedin_profile kicks off. The agent lets you know it can take a few minutes and moves on to whatever else you want to talk about in the meantime.

A few minutes later you ask if it's ready. It calls get_linkedin_profile and this time gets back the real result: your headline, three past roles with their dates, your degree, and a list of skills pulled from the public page. From there you can ask it to use that to build or update your resume, which runs through the same curation and truthfulness rules as any other resume work, or you can review the imported details yourself first and correct anything that looks off before it goes anywhere near your resume.

## What the import can and can't reach

Starting an import requires your approval, since it's a write action that kicks off a background job on your behalf. Where it reads from is limited by design: the tool works only from a public profile page, the same one anyone could view logged out, and it cannot get past LinkedIn's login wall to pull anything only visible to signed-in viewers. If you need something from behind that wall, the workaround is uploading LinkedIn's own Save to PDF export instead, a different, direct path that doesn't rely on this import tool at all.

The raw data the import pulls back is kept server-side and never rendered anywhere in the app; what reaches you and the agent is the structured, extracted version, headline, work history, education, skills. If you choose to chain the import straight into building a resume, that resume work still runs under the same truthfulness rule as any curation: it can use what your LinkedIn actually says, and it still can't add anything beyond that.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can the agent import a LinkedIn profile that isn't public?

No. The import tool reads the same public profile page anyone could view without logging in. It can't get behind LinkedIn's login wall. For data only visible when signed in, uploading a LinkedIn Save to PDF export is the alternative path.

### Is the LinkedIn import instant?

No, it runs as a background job that can take a few minutes. The agent tells you it's started and you can check back once it's likely finished, or ask again and it will report the current status honestly.

### Does the app show me the raw data pulled from my LinkedIn profile?

No. The raw scraped pull is kept server-side and never displayed. What you and the agent see is the structured, extracted summary: headline, work history, education, and skills.

### Can importing my LinkedIn automatically build a resume for me?

It can, optionally, if you ask for that when you start the import. The resume it builds still follows the same truthfulness rules as any other curated resume, using only what your profile actually says.

## Related pages

- [Your AI career agent](/ai-career-agent)
- [AI resume curation](/ai-career-agent/resume-curation)
- [Resume library management](/ai-career-agent/resume-library)
- [AI job search agent](/ai-career-agent/job-search)

## Import your LinkedIn profile

Give the agent your public profile URL and let it pull your work history into Intervieux, at no cost. The raw data it reads never leaves the server.

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