What to put on your link hub, and what to leave off
A link hub is a front door, not a second résumé. The art is curation: a few live links that lead somewhere real beat a long list nobody clicks.
Once you have a link hub, the temptation is to pour everything into it: every profile, every side project, every certificate. Resist it. A hub works the way a good résumé does, by being short and pointed. It is the first thing a recruiter taps after scanning your QR code, and its only job is to send them somewhere that makes you look like the obvious hire. Five strong links do that. Twenty links of mixed quality do the opposite.
Lead with proof, not profiles
The most valuable thing on a hub is evidence of real work: the project you would actually talk about in an interview, with a live demo and the code behind it. Put that first. Profiles like LinkedIn and GitHub matter, but they are commodities; everyone has them. A working thing you built is the part that is hard to fake and easy to remember.
- Your résumé, so the document and its live links sit in one place.
- One or two flagship projects, each with a demo link and a one-line result.
- The profiles that actually have something on them. Skip the empty ones.
- A way to reach you that you check: an email, sometimes a calendar link.
Say what you are looking for
A single line of availability does more work than people expect. "Open to summer 2026 internships in ML" tells a recruiter, in one read, whether to keep going. It is honest, it is specific, and it saves everyone the guessing. Vague is the enemy here: "open to opportunities" says nothing. Name the role, the timing, and the field.
What to leave off
Leave off anything you would not want clicked. A dead link, a half-finished repo, a portfolio that is still "coming soon," a social account that is purely personal. Each weak link drags the average down, because a hub is judged by its worst entry as much as its best. When in doubt, cut it. You can always add it back when it is ready.
- Dead or "coming soon" links. An empty page is worse than no link.
- Purely personal accounts that say nothing about your work.
- A wall of certificates. Keep the one or two that a recruiter would weigh.
- Anything you cannot speak to confidently in an interview.
How lapel keeps it honest
In lapel the hub is built from your résumé, so your projects and skills stay in sync automatically; edit them once and both update. You choose what to show, reorder links by hand, and add a headline, photo and availability line in the hub's own editor. Every link is click-tracked, so over time you can see which ones recruiters actually open and prune the rest. The result is a small, current, honest front door, which is the only kind worth sharing.