CV ↔ LinkedIn
Do your CV and LinkedIn need to match?
Recruiters routinely open your LinkedIn while holding your CV. They are not checking whether the two documents are identical. They are checking whether both tell the same true story.
What must match
A different job title or shifted dates between the two documents is not tailoring. It reads as a credibility problem. And it usually happens by accident: people update one document and forget the other.
What may differ
Your CV should be tailored per job: different emphasis, reordered skills, deeper detail on the roles that matter for this application. Recruiters expect this; they do it with their own CVs.
LinkedIn is your stable public record; the CV is your targeted argument. Both can be true at once.
The gray zone
Claims on your CV with no trace on LinkedIn (a skill, a team size, a seniority signal) make recruiters wonder which version is accurate.
The fix is not weakening your CV. It is adding one honest line to LinkedIn that backs the claim.
Check your own CV and LinkedIn
HireRevolt now checks this automatically: import your LinkedIn profile, and we compare it against your CV: factual mismatches, gray-zone claims, and the differences that are perfectly fine. Free, like everything else.
Run the consistency check