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>>fortra+(OP)
LinkedIn has become basically a requirement for applying for many jobs making it one of the hardest public profiles for the privacy conscious to hide from Google. I have a pretty common name, which is normally a good anonymity cloak, but if you also know my profession then my Linkedin profile pops up as the first Google result revealing many accurate personal details about me.

>>bosswi+Zm
Which jobs require a LinkedIn profile? I've never had one and never been asked about it.

I have gotten lots of recruiter emails saying they saw my LinkedIn profile, which is kinda funny, since it doesn't exist.

Could just be the kinds of jobs I'm interested in.

>>Randal+sn
As a student its one of those things that you can't risk not having on your résumé. There's always one recruiter or one document-scraping application portal that could reject it. Plus every career counselor I've seen has suggested it.

I personally think that for software dev at least, making connections via Twitter or via friends is a better way to go for the first internship, but everyone has different paths to success :)

>>peterk+So
FWIW, I've seen quite a few resumes of software engineers at this point and I would say less than half have LinkedIn on it.

"Can't risk" is interesting, you could say that about anything you could put on your resume if there's a chance it helps, but something like LinkedIn seems just redundant with your resume's content.