OK, thanks a lot for the advice. I’m a rising sophomore at a non-target…I have a (virtual) boutique PE internship this summer, but IB is the goal. I’ll only put a dummy entry until I have a substantive entry from my internship with “buzzwords”.

Just use the job title. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this approach, though, unless you’re in school and have no work experience or almost no work experience. Not even sure how that bit made it into this article.

Yes, it’s better to use “Alexander” because it will be easier for people in other countries to interpret it.

I am an international student and my name is spelt like ‘Aleksandr’ in my passport but sometimes I use ‘Alexander’ which is more common in English-speaking countries.
Does it matter what name I choose on LinkedIn? I’ve read some articles about people being biased in favour of someone with more common and ‘easy to pronounce’ names.

Thanks!

Hire a professional.

Get a trial for LinkedIn Premium… or just sign up and cancel after you no longer need it… or ask to use someone else’s account just to find the names… or just use the alumni database that your university offers. If you’re at a top school, it seems like that would be 10x easier than using LinkedIn since all the information is there and accessible to you as a student.

Hi Brian, most of their names are hidden to me because they are out of my network. How can I find their name?

You don’t need to connect with them on LinkedIn, you just need their names and banks, and then you can guess their email addresses and verify with tools like https://email-checker.net/

Another strategy might be to ask LinkedIn for a free trial or discounted version of LinkedIn Premium since you’re a student (they’re often open to this if they think you’ll come back in the future).