Are you improving profiles for customers or for recruiters?
A sales leader wants customers to recognize the company when they open an employee’s LinkedIn profile. A career coach wants a client’s profile to show the skills employers are looking for. Both need useful profile feedback, but the next steps start from different questions.
Linkwiz organizes the review around your company and employees. Jobscan organizes LinkedIn optimization around the jobs a person wants. Choose the goal first, then compare how each product helps you support people and review improvement.
| What you want to do | Linkwiz | Jobscan |
|---|---|---|
| Start a LinkedIn review | Create a company report and include the employees you want to support. | Add a profile and at least three target job descriptions. |
| Choose what to improve | Review the team’s profile findings and company connections. | Review a Match Score, profile checks and job-related keywords. |
| Help someone with wording | Use recommendations, guides and examples; discuss accessible findings with a connected AI assistant. | Use built-in AI headline and summary generators, alongside profile feedback. |
| Support several people | See employee findings together and open individual evidence. | Organization and Coach offerings support job seekers and career professionals. |
| See improvement over time | Compare available scans for the same employees and inspect changed findings. | Update the LinkedIn profile, scan again against the same jobs and review the updated score. |
| Look beyond the profile | Review company and colleague posts and captured interactions in Activity Tracking. | Use resume tools, cover letters and job-search tracking alongside LinkedIn optimization. |
Use Linkwiz when you own the company’s LinkedIn presence
Start with a company report and review the employee matrix. A marketing lead can see where headlines need a clearer company connection, where a company cover would help and which current workplace details need attention. Open the individual finding to read the evidence and recommended next step.
PROFILE · HEADLINE
Is the company mentioned in their headline?
| Employee | Headline | Cover | Profile Intro | Workplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Alex Bennett Software Engineer | Good | Good | Good | Good |
 Alex Carter Chief Executive Officer | Optimize | Good | Optimize | Optimize |
Example · See which employees need which profile updates.
The shared view makes follow-up more practical. Send the right company asset to people who need it, and offer individual help where the wording needs work. Profiles that passed a check provide examples the team can learn from while employees keep their own expertise and voice.
The team profile audit guide explains that review. Profiles included in a report and people using your Linkwiz workspace are separate counts; every employee you review does not need their own Linkwiz account.
Use Jobscan when the profile needs to fit the jobs someone wants
Jobscan’s LinkedIn optimization tool compares a profile with at least three job descriptions. It identifies relevant skills and keywords, gives a profile Match Score and offers headline and About section suggestions.
That is a useful starting point for a job seeker targeting a type of role. For example, someone moving into customer success can use several suitable vacancies to understand which parts of their actual experience deserve more space on their profile. Only include skills and achievements they can support.
The LinkedIn tutorial describes checks for basic information, headline, summary, work experience, skills and education. Jobscan’s built-in AI can generate a headline or summary using the person’s experience and skills.
Jobscan also belongs to a wider job-search toolkit, including resumes, cover letters and a job tracker. That context matters when career readiness is the main reason for improving LinkedIn.
Both support groups. Compare what the group is working toward
Jobscan’s organization offering serves career services, education, recruitment agencies and outplacement programs. It includes LinkedIn optimization and resume support, with adoption and usage reporting. Its higher education offer also describes training and ongoing support for career centers.
The Coach tutorial describes a client manager, invitations, access to scans, tracked interviews and resume progress. It is a real group workflow, rather than a collection of unrelated individual subscriptions.
In Linkwiz, the group is your current company team. The review helps a lead coordinate profile updates and understand participation around the company and colleagues. For a career service supporting applications, Jobscan’s client records are relevant. For a business supporting its employees’ public presence, Linkwiz’s company report is the more direct starting point.
Give people useful help after the report
A report becomes useful when the person knows what to do next. In Linkwiz, combine the recommendation with its evidence, a relevant guide and a good example from another employee. Share a finished cover when that is what the person needs; offer help with a headline when the finding calls for clearer wording.
Through Linkwiz’s AI and team-chat integrations, people can discuss accessible findings in ChatGPT, Claude, Codex or Linkwiz in Slack. A personal optimization plan can also be exported for an employee to upload to their own AI assistant. The employee updates guide explains these options.
Jobscan’s approach combines built-in writing suggestions with the person’s target roles. Review generated text, make it sound like the person and apply the changes to their LinkedIn profile. Both workflows still need the employee or client to make the final update.
Compare improvement using the same starting point
Jobscan’s tutorial explicitly describes scanning again after updating LinkedIn. Keep the same target jobs so the updated Match Score reflects profile changes against the same requirements. Its video walkthrough also describes refreshing profile information for the new scan.
Linkwiz’s team profile progress workflow compares available scans for a consistent set of employees. Review changed findings across the team, then open the evidence for areas that still need attention. Use that review to decide whom to help next.
The question you are tracking is different: fit for target roles in Jobscan, and the team’s profile findings in Linkwiz. A higher score is useful when you understand what was checked and what changed.
Include the conversations employees can contribute to
A company’s LinkedIn presence also includes what employees post, comment on and share. Linkwiz’s Activity Tracking brings company and employee activity into a focused feed, with the captured interactions behind the totals.
Connected AI assistants or the Linkwiz Slack agent can use that context to discuss relevant posts and help someone draft a contribution. The feed supplies posts and activity; the assistant provides conversational help. The weekly engagement guide explains the process.
Jobscan’s documented group reporting centers on client usage and career support. If your buying question is about current employees’ comments, company participation and profile alignment, ask for that exact workflow when evaluating a tool.
Compare the plan with the people and work it covers
| Product or plan | Published reference | What the plan is for |
|---|---|---|
| Linkwiz Starter | $25/month; 25 profiles, 3 companies and 3 workspace users. | Reviewing employee profiles and activity, with people managing the work. |
| Jobscan Premium | $49.95/month or $89.95/quarter in its published comparison. | An individual job-search toolkit that includes LinkedIn optimization. |
| Jobscan Organizations / Coach | Organization pricing depends on needs; confirm current Coach access and client allowances. | Career teams supporting clients, students or other job seekers. |
See the current Linkwiz plans. Jobscan’s published plan reference lists the Premium prices above; its plan page is the place to confirm the offer. Organization buyers should request the relevant quote.
Count the profiles you want reviewed, the people managing the work and the support each person needs. A company report subscription and a career-tool subscription cover different jobs, so compare that scope alongside the billing period.
Which should you choose?
Choose Linkwiz when you are responsible for how your current team represents the company on LinkedIn. Start with employee profile findings, support their updates, review participation and follow improvement across the team.
Choose Jobscan when the main task is matching a person’s profile to the roles they want, or running a career service that supports job seekers with resumes, LinkedIn profiles and applications. An organization with both responsibilities can use the products for those separate purposes.
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By Linkwiz · Evidence reviewed 12 October 2026. Official product, tutorial, organization and pricing references are linked beside the claims. This is a documentation review, rather than paid account testing or a customer outcome study. Report data is labeled Example.
Jobscan documents group access, AI writing and scanning again after edits; we do not treat these as exclusive to Linkwiz. The reviewed materials do not establish the same combined company-profile and employee-participation workflow. Absence from documentation does not prove a feature is unavailable.
Jobscan’s Match Score reflects its criteria, rather than a rating issued by LinkedIn. Linkwiz findings reflect captured public profiles and available activity. Progress comparisons need consistent target jobs or employees and more than one available scan.
Jobscan’s written tutorial uses a profile URL; a video walkthrough also includes a profile PDF. Follow the current prompts in the account. Direct automated requests to Jobscan return an access challenge; official pages were reviewed through web retrieval. Premium prices come from its 26 August 2026 comparison article because live checkout pricing could not be independently inspected. Confirm current billing, allowances and organization terms before buying.
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