I was looking at the Linkedin profile - PDF export feature. I found few of the sections such as Projects, Skills ... are not getting exported in PDF. Did I missed any settings change ?
Also, I was wondering "Will it be okay if we use Linkedin exported profile as a CV ?" CV that we send to recruiters ...
LinkedIn has changed its Save As PDF functionality since January 2017. As you can read here : Printing a Profile clearly states that not all profile sections will appear in the PDF after export. There are a lot of Google Chrome Extensions or apps (ResponsiveCV) for converting LinkedIn profile to a resume but none of them do the required task properly.
However, I used a hack kind of solution to this. If you don't want any other app to scan your LinkedIn profile data and if you are a software developer comfortable with Developer Options in a browser, you can go to view your complete profile and inspect elements to delete the unwanted sections(Remove header, footer, right table, etc.). Once you're done removing unwanted elements, print the webpage.
Update: 2020-05-11
Now Top Skills, Languages, Publications, Honors-Awards and Certifications are included in the built in PDF-generator. Projects and Courses are still missing though.
Original:
As you mention the biggest drawback with the Save to PDF functionality is that Skills, Projects, Courses, Languages, Publications and Certifications are not exported among others. This information can however be exported to .csv. Do this by going to Settings & Privacy -> Privacy -> How LinkedIn uses your data -> Download your data -> Pick and choose: Select the data files you're most interested in. -> Select Profile (You can of course export other data as well if you want). After around 10 minutes you will receive an email with a download link.
Example of Profile export .zip:
Well, the 'developper' solution maybe be a bit too long.. I've got an other solution which is the following:
-step 1: toggle data you wanna display
-step 2: make a screenshot of your page (with screenshot tool not "full screenshot" => hit 'windows' key then write scr and windows will propose you that tool)
-step 3: create a word document
-step 4: paste your screenshot inside the word document
-repeat all these step until all of your content got inside your word file
-finally: export your Word document into PDF document
I hope you'll enjoy this solution :)
Regards
Maxime
