TL;DR Recruiters cross-check LinkedIn against your CV in 78% of first-pass screens. Different titles at the same company read as inflation, not as oversight. Here is the 10-minute alignment audit that catches 90% of the issues. Why mismatch is louder than you think Your CV gets 7.4 seconds. LinkedIn gets opened in a second tab in roughly the same window. The recruiter is pattern-matching: same name, same companies, same dates, same titles. When a pattern breaks, attention spikes - the bad kind. The four mismatches that get you binned Different job title at the same company → recruiters infer inflation Different start or end dates → suspicion of a hidden gap Company name reads differently (Ltd vs Limited) → sloppiness CV achievements that do not appear on LinkedIn → suspicion the wins are invented The 10-minute alignment audit Open your CV and your LinkedIn profile side by side.…