{"id":"career-linkedin-about-career-changer","audience":"job-seekers","category":"career","technique":"audience","track":"writing","title":"Write a LinkedIn About for a teacher moving into training","free":false,"task":"You're a teacher moving into corporate training and want a LinkedIn About section hiring managers will skim. Get under 100 words, plain text, first person. The first sentence must say you're looking for instructional designer roles starting January 2027, which only you know. End with exactly 3 lines formatted \"Classroom: X -> Training: Y\" that translate your teaching work. Don't use \"passionate\" or \"lifelong learner\", and don't claim tools you haven't used.","materialLabel":"Your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"MY NOTES (Marisol Vega, 7th grade science teacher, 8 years, Cedar Ridge Middle School)\n\nWhat I do now:\n- plan 180 days of lessons a year, about 140 students\n- built a 6-week unit on water quality that our district adopted for all 5 middle schools\n- train new teachers at our school on our grading software, 2 workshops a year\n- made short how-to videos for parents during remote learning (used Loom and Google Slides)\n- track student scores and change lessons when a quiz shows a gap\n\nMoving to: instructional designer, corporate training\n- finished a 10-week online course in instructional design basics (certificate of completion)\n- I've seen Articulate Storyline in a demo but never built anything in it\n- my friend's About says \"passionate lifelong learner who loves to grow\" -> I don't want that","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Burying the goal","why":"The AI opens with your teaching story and can't know your start date, so a recruiter skimming doesn't see what you want or when.","fix":"Add: \"First sentence: I'm looking for instructional designer roles starting January 2027.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Getting the stock phrases","why":"AI About sections reach for 'passionate lifelong learner', and they add tools from job ads like Storyline.","fix":"Add: \"Don't use passionate or lifelong learner. I've never used Storyline.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not translating your work","why":"The AI describes teaching in teacher words, so hiring managers in training have to guess what fits.","fix":"Show it: \"Classroom: lesson planning -> Training: course design\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"2 sentences under 16 words, then 3 lines under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in LinkedIn, which doesn't show bold.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Leads with goal and date","patterns":["january","2027","first sentence"]},{"label":"Bans stock phrases","patterns":["passionate","lifelong","buzzword","storyline"]},{"label":"Shows the translation lines","patterns":["classroom:","->","translat"]},{"label":"Writes for hiring managers","patterns":["hiring manager","corporate","recruiter"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"A career change About works when the goal and timing come first and your past is translated for the new reader. Show the translation line, ban the stock phrases, and say which tools you really know.","rubricLabels":["The first sentence says Marisol is looking for instructional designer roles starting January 2027","Never uses 'passionate' or 'lifelong learner', and doesn't claim she has built anything in Articulate Storyline","Ends with exactly 3 lines in the form 'Classroom: ... -> Training: ...', each based on a fact from the notes"]}