Should you name-drop on your LinkedIn headline?

Attention grabbing or pretentious? It depends.

What’s the quickest way to get attention on LinkedIn? Some users think they’ve cracked the code by flaunting elite schools and prestigious firms at the very top of their profile where job titles typically go. Alums from the likes of consulting giant McKinsey, Harvard Business School, and investment bank Goldman Sachs are now shouting about their networks from the digital rooftops.