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LinkedIn QR code on a resume.

Make the code, put it beside your contact details, and keep your LinkedIn address in the text as well, because screening software reads words, not pictures.

A full address, one without https://, or just the part after /in/. Company and school pages work too.

Free, no signup and no watermark. The code holds your LinkedIn address itself, so it never expires and there is no redirect of ours in the way.

Paste your profile address and the code appears here.

Nothing is stored. The code is drawn from the address you paste and nothing else.

To add a LinkedIn QR code to a resume, make it from your custom profile URL, place it in the header beside your contact details at about 0.75 to 1 inch square, and keep the URL written out as a clickable link next to it. The code serves the interviewer holding a printed copy; the written link serves everyone reading the PDF on a screen, and the applicant tracking software that reads text, not images.

Step by step

Onto your resume, in five steps.

  1. 01

    Set a custom profile URL

    It reads better written out and makes a smaller code. LinkedIn allows 3 to 100 letters or numbers (LinkedIn help).

  2. 02

    Make the code here and download the PNG or SVG

    Word, Google Docs and Pages all take a PNG; design tools such as Canva or InDesign take the SVG and keep it sharp.

  3. 03

    Place it in the header

    Beside your phone and email, at 0.75 to 1 inch square. In the header it is the first thing a reader with a phone sees, and it stays out of the way of your experience.

  4. 04

    Write the link out as well

    Put linkedin.com/in/yourname in your contact line as a clickable link. Screening software reads text, and on-screen readers will click rather than scan.

  5. 05

    Export to PDF and test both

    Click the link in the PDF and scan the code on a printout and off the screen. Both should open your profile.

Screening software

The code is for people. The link is for software.

For people: scan

For software: text

Example

Many employers run applications through an applicant tracking system before a person reads them. Those systems pull text out of your file; a QR code is an image, and an image has no text to pull. So the code adds nothing to what the software sees, and if your LinkedIn address exists only inside the code, the software never sees it at all. Keep the address in your contact line as words.

The code earns its place later, on paper: an interviewer with your printout, a career-fair recruiter with a stack of them. They can lift a phone rather than type a URL. That is a small convenience, so keep the code small, and never let it push out a line of experience.

Size on the page

0.75 to 1 inch is plenty.

A US Letter page is 8.5 inches wide. The code needs less than an eighth of it.

A typical profile address encodes to 33×33 modules. The smallest it should print, margin included, is 0.64 in (16.2mm); at GS1’s comfortable target it is 0.8 in (20.3mm). At 0.75 inch each module is 0.58mm, above GS1’s 0.495mm target, so it reads easily from a desk’s distance. Bigger only takes space from your experience.

Print in black. A colored code saves nothing and some office printers render a brand color too pale to scan. If you send the resume as a PDF, the code still works from a screen: people can scan it off a laptop with a phone.

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Related tools and guides.

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Questions

Questions, answered.

Should I put a QR code on my resume?

A small one is fine, as long as the same link is also written out. It helps anyone holding a printed copy; it does nothing for screening software or for people reading on a screen, who will click the link instead.

Where should the LinkedIn QR code go on a resume?

In the header, beside your phone number and email. It belongs with your contact details, and up there it never pushes a line of experience onto a second page.

How big should a QR code be on a resume?

About 0.75 to 1 inch square, margin included. A typical profile address can print as small as 0.64 inch, so 0.75 inch leaves room for a basic office printer.

Can applicant tracking systems read QR codes?

They read text. A QR code is an image, so whatever is inside it is invisible to the software. That is why the LinkedIn address should also be in your contact line as words.

PNG or SVG for a resume?

PNG for Word, Google Docs and Pages, which all accept it; the PNG here is 1200 pixels square, sharp at resume size. SVG for design tools such as Canva, Figma or InDesign, where it stays sharp at any size.

Does it work on a PDF resume read on a screen?

Yes. Someone can scan it off a laptop screen with their phone. Most people reading on a screen will click the written link instead, so keep both.

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