How to Add a QR Code to Your LinkedIn Profile or Banner
LinkedIn's mobile app has a built-in QR code feature (under your profile's "Contact info" or the QR icon near the search bar) that generates a code linking to your profile — but it's designed to be scanned by someone else's LinkedIn app, in person, at that exact moment. It doesn't produce a file you can print on a business card, add to an email signature, or drop into a conference slide deck. For anywhere outside LinkedIn's own app-to-app scanning flow, you need a separate code built from your actual profile URL.
Finding your profile URL
On desktop, go to your profile and look for "Edit public profile & URL" in the right-hand panel — that page shows (and lets you customize) the exact URL your profile lives at, something like linkedin.com/in/yourname. On mobile, tap your profile photo, then "Edit public profile," which shows the same link. This is the URL you actually want to encode — not a link to LinkedIn's homepage, and not the in-app QR code's special scan-to-connect format, which only functions inside LinkedIn's own app.
Building the code
Paste your profile URL into the generator exactly as shown — no need to add https:// if it's not already there, since most modern scanners handle a bare domain correctly, though including the full https://linkedin.com/in/yourname format is the safest bet across every scanner. Because this code will likely end up on physical print — a business card, a name badge, a printed resume header — choosing SVG as the export format keeps it sharp at any print size, rather than a fixed-resolution PNG that can blur if scaled up.
Where this is actually useful
Business cards and resumes. A LinkedIn QR code next to your name lets someone add you as a connection on the spot at a networking event or interview, without either of you fumbling to search your name and confirm it's really you among several similar results — see putting a QR code on your portfolio, resume, or business card for the broader version of this setup covering other platforms too.
LinkedIn banner images and email signatures. A small code in the corner of your LinkedIn banner or at the bottom of an email signature gives anyone viewing it on a second device (someone reading your email on their phone while your profile is open on their laptop, for instance) an instant way to jump to your profile without retyping your name into search.
Conference badges and speaker slides. If you're speaking or exhibiting, a printed badge or a closing slide with your LinkedIn QR code converts interested attendees into connections before the moment passes — most people who mean to "look you up later" after a good conversation never actually do, and a scan removes that entire step.
The short version
LinkedIn's own in-app QR code only works between two LinkedIn apps scanning each other in person — for anything printed, emailed, or shown on a screen outside that flow, grab your actual profile URL from "Edit public profile" and turn it into a normal static QR code, which works with any camera, anywhere, indefinitely.