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LinkedIn Open To Work Generator

Put the #OPENTOWORK ring around your profile picture and download it as a PNG — without switching LinkedIn’s setting on. Free, private, no watermark.

What it does

Open to work frame for your LinkedIn photo

The green band round a LinkedIn profile picture is a picture, not a badge: LinkedIn draws it over your photo when the Open To Work setting is on, and takes it away again when the setting goes off. This page makes the same image as a file you upload yourself — so the ring goes on when you want it, comes off when you swap the photo back, and nothing else about your profile changes.

The photo is cropped to the circle every profile shows, the band is drawn on the outside edge of it, and the corners come out transparent — which is what makes the result sit on a profile as a circle rather than a square with a pale box around it.

The frame, not the setting

LinkedIn’s own frame comes with the Open To Work setting, which tells recruiters — and, if you pick “all LinkedIn members”, everyone else — that you are looking. This makes the same picture as an ordinary photo you upload yourself, so the ring is the only thing that changes.

A transparent open to work PNG

Skip the photo and the download is the band on its own, with everything inside the ring left transparent. That is the open to work PNG to drop over a picture in any other editor.

#HIRING as well as #OPENTOWORK

Recruiters get the purple one. Both are presets, and the text field takes anything else — #OPENTOCOLLABORATE, a language, a city — set in capitals along the bottom of the band.

Drawn in your browser

The photo never leaves your device: the crop, the ring and the PNG are all made on this page. No account, no watermark, no upload queue.

How it works

How to add the open to work frame?

  1. Drop your photo

    JPG, PNG or WebP. It is read off your device — nothing is uploaded anywhere.

  2. Fit it in the ring

    Drag to move, zoom until your face clears the band at the bottom.

  3. Pick the frame

    #OPENTOWORK, #HIRING, or your own words in any colour you like.

  4. Download the PNG

    A square with transparent corners, ready to upload as your profile photo.

Worth knowing

Frame or setting — which one you want

LinkedIn’s own Open To Work has two halves that people tend to conflate. The setting tells LinkedIn you are looking, and can be shown to recruiters only — quiet, and invisible on your profile. The frame is the public half: the green ring everyone who visits your profile sees, including your current employer.

A frame made here is only the second half, and only as a photo. It reaches everyone who looks at your profile, exactly as LinkedIn’s does, and it does nothing to the search preferences underneath. If you want the ring but not the announcement, there isn’t one: any visible frame is visible to everybody. If you want to be found without being seen looking, use the setting on its own and leave the photo plain.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is open to work a red flag?

Depends who you ask. Recruiters often treat it as a signal you are available; some hiring managers read it as already halfway out the door. The frame is public. If you are employed and want to stay quiet, use LinkedIn’s setting with “recruiters only” and no frame.

Is it good to put open to work in LinkedIn?

If you want to be found, yes — recruiters search for it. If you still have a job you want to keep, the public frame is a louder announcement than most people intend. Recruiters-only is the quieter half.

How to make open to work in LinkedIn?

Me → Open to → Finding a new job, then pick who sees it. The green ring only appears if you share with all LinkedIn members. This page draws the same ring onto a photo you upload yourself, without turning the setting on.

Can my employer see if I am open to work?

If the green frame is on, yes — anyone who opens your profile sees it, including them. LinkedIn’s “recruiters only” option hides the frame and tries to exclude recruiters at your company, but it is not a guarantee.

Is open to work visible to everyone?

Only if you pick “all LinkedIn members” — that is what draws the green ring. “Recruiters only” is not shown on the photo. A frame made here is a picture, so it is visible to everyone who sees the photo.

How do I remove open to work on LinkedIn?

Me → Open to → Finding a new job → Delete from profile. That takes the setting and LinkedIn’s frame off. A frame made here comes off the same way any profile photo does: upload the original.