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Build a LinkedIn profile people read

A free starter challenge. Set up a LinkedIn profile with a real photo, a clear headline, a short About, your skills and your first three connections, so recruiters and teams can find you.

  1. 1Learn
  2. 2Do
  3. 3Submit
  4. 4Results
Category
Basics
Lesson
20 min
Effort
~2h
Prize
Free
Closes in
 

Learn

20 min lesson

What you'll learn

How to make a LinkedIn profile that a recruiter, a teacher or a future co-founder can understand in ten seconds, even if you have no job yet.

Why bother now

LinkedIn is where companies in Bishkek, Almaty, Dubai and Berlin look people up. A thin profile reads as "not serious". A clear one with a real photo and three honest lines about what you are learning already puts you ahead of most applicants your age. You must be at least 16 to have an account.

The photo

Use a recent photo of your face, looking at the camera, on a plain background, in daylight. A phone is fine. Crop it so your face fills most of the circle. No sunglasses, no group photos, no logos. Add a simple banner if you like: a city skyline, a mountain, or a colour.

The headline

This is the line under your name, and it shows everywhere. Do not write only "Student". Say what you are learning and what you want: "Student at AUCA, learning data analysis and SQL" or "Self-taught Flutter developer, building apps for local businesses". Use words someone would search for.

About

Three to five short sentences, in the first person. What you study or do, one thing you have built or done, what you are looking for. Write it like you would introduce yourself to a kind stranger, not like a CV. If you are writing in English as a second language, that is fine; keep sentences short and ask an AI tool to check grammar, not to write it for you.

Experience, education, skills

Add your school or university. Add real experience: a part-time job, a volunteer role, a school project, a challenge you finished here. Then add five skills you can actually show, such as Canva, Excel, Python or public speaking. Fewer true skills beat a long list.

Three connections

Connect with three real people: a classmate, a teacher, someone you met at an event. Add a short note when you send the request. A profile with zero connections looks unfinished.

Your public URL

Under "Edit public profile and URL", set a clean address such as linkedin.com/in/aigerim-toktosunova. Make sure your public profile is visible, then open the link in a private browser window to check what strangers see.

Before you submit

Open your public URL while signed out. You should see your photo, headline, about, education and skills. Hide your phone number and personal email from the public view.

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Do

about 2h of work

The task

Companies in Kyrgyzstan and abroad look people up on LinkedIn before they reply to an application. You do not need a job yet to have a good profile; you need a clear photo, an honest headline that says what you are learning, a few sentences about you, the skills you can actually show, and some real connections. In this challenge you build that profile and set a clean public URL, so a stranger can open it and understand who you are in ten seconds.

Deliverables

  1. 01Your public LinkedIn profile URL, viewable while signed out
  2. 02A screenshot of the top of your profile as a signed-out visitor sees it, opened in a private window
  3. 03A short note in the write-up on what you wrote in your headline and why

Acceptance criteria

Judged against exactly these

  • The profile photo is a recent, clear photo of your face
  • The headline says what you study or do and what you are learning, not only "Student"
  • The About section has three to five sentences in the first person
  • Education is filled in and at least five skills are listed
  • The profile has at least three connections
  • The public URL is customised and the profile opens for someone who is signed out

Rules

  • Complete the lesson first. The submit form unlocks once you mark it done.
  • Submit a link to your work: a public GitHub repo or PR for code challenges; YouTube, Google Drive or Docs, Figma, Notion or a live site for everything else.
  • AI tools are allowed and encouraged. Plagiarised or copied work is disqualified.
  • The work must be made during the challenge window. For code, the commit history must show it.
  • An AI reviewer pre-scores every entry against the acceptance criteria. A human makes the final decision.
  • On payout, Alt AI Labs receives a licence to use the winning work (MIT for code). Non-winning entries stay yours.
  • Do not include secrets, API keys or anyone's personal data.
  • LinkedIn requires you to be at least 16.
  • Sharing your own public profile link is fine. Keep your phone number and personal email off the public view.
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Submit

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Results

  1. 01

    AI pre-score

    AI reviews your write-up against the acceptance criteria. It cannot open your link, so explain your work clearly.

  2. 02

    Human decision

    A human reviews the work itself and makes the final call. The AI score is advisory.

  3. 03

    Win

    There is no cash prize. Winning work is shown to the organization behind the challenge.

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