Should I mention that I'm in greek life on my resume?
Any and all ideas are welcome!
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Did you hold a leadership position? Is it something you can use to demonstrate experience? I don't think it's a bad idea to mention, I've seen it on plenty of resumes. I think it is especially useful to have if you were in a leadership position, other than that maybe a line under interests or whatever since you never know when a guy reading it will be in the same Fraternity and pull it just because of that.
Agreed with Addinator. If you can leverage it for leadership experience, then do it. You could probably leverage regardless of whether you were in an officer role and say you managed recruitment for a rush class of x students.
As for just mentioning it without any added value/experience, I'd say put it under interests or omit it. If you're in a fraternity, you should be networking with people in finance from your organization's alumni chapter and know who's active in the given field you want to enter into.
I don't think I would put it under interests, but I would put it under things you did at your university, such as like member of finance club, Varsity football player, etc.
If you have space, yes. For sure if you have a leadership position. There are a lot of frat guys in IB, so it can't hurt!
It can't hurt
As has been said alreaedy, are you involved in any real position of authority or leadership? Basically, are you on your house's executive board, rush chair, or are your house's dedicated "Major School Supported Philanthropy Chair" (ie. Penn State and Thon - Every Fraternity has a Thon chair who manages the house's involvement internally and serves as the liason with current overalls in charge of Thon for the calendar year) that you can seguway into how you benefited from those leadership positions. That's all value added.
If you aren't doing that, then don't bother. It's not really a big draw unless you are seeing meaningful returns from it.
Definitely put it, lot of guys on the street were in fraternities and by some small chance if one of your interviewers was in the same one it could push you forward.
Mentioning fraternity position on CV in Germany ? (Originally Posted: 04/17/2012)
After seeing some CVs from US students mentioning their fraternity I was wondering if the same applies for Germany. Would you mention your fraternity (think Corps, Burschenschaft) if you held a position which could be relevant (x, xx, xxx, treasurer) if you haven't had many internships?
Thanks.
What the hell is a German fraternity
They had a pretty big one once; little angry bloke ran it, weird moutstache.
Oktoberfest is one big frat party.
why not
Did you need a "safe word" while pledging?
Ignorance is bliss.
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