A friend of mine is currently applying for consultancy grad jobs. I thought it would be a good idea to mention that he is a house DJ playing for 500+ people of a weekly basis. I see it as showing command of a high pressured environment, strong commitment and structure to finding music and practising sets and demonstrates strong communication skills with managers of clubs and bars. What are your thoughts?
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I had it on mine and nobody ever brought it up.
(under the interests section of my resume)
Make sure he wears square-toed shoes and a skinny tie...
and a black shirt with red tie
lol nah I'm feelin the all black look. black on black with red tie is sick tho...
I'd be careful on this one. For the most part, I don't think it would affect you negatively, but I really can't imagine a scenario where a hiring manager would think to himself "wow....the kid presses the play button and plays other artists' music in front of 500 partying 20 year olds--he must have a lot of drive and initiative! Bring him on board!" I think it just opens the door to unnecessary judgments. Idk though, your call $.02
Definitely, especially if he books his own shows, rents/owns the gear, etc. Its a business. I've seen it on a resume and they just added some impressive stats like $x of revenue, X number of performances a year for X people, employed X people or so on. Even if they numbers are small, it shows a level on entrepreneurship that is less common that people on here would like you to think.
Personally I think DJing is one helluva job in terms of client service. You need to deal with people dancing drunkenly, need timing, and you automatically get blamed by most guys with no game who can't convince girls to dance/be near them.
Don't say that in your interview though.
Yeah dude cause we all know how hard to please drunk clubbers are. And for sure, timing when you press play and pause can probably get pretty confusing! High pressure bro, you might miss it by a second and have to deal with the fact that the drunken larrys dancing in the crowd are doing just as difficult an activity as you (can't put it on their resumes though). You could literally play a fucking mix, sit there and dance and clap like you're in swedish fish mafia for 20 mins and people would call you the best DJ ever. If you put DJing on your resume, I'm putting entrepreneur because one time I sold an adderall so I could buy some blue gatorade. Welcome to the big leagues skrillex
I died laughing at this for some reason.
If you don't know anything about a subject you generally look less stupid if you don't say anything.
OP's friend may be one of those "club" DJ's who only presses play and pause but it is very ignorant to categorize all DJing like that. You should really read up on the history of DJing and it's roots in hip hop. It is as much a skill as a talented MC, graffiti artist of bboy.
Wow. Okay, let's see you go mix in front of 500 people. We'll see how long you last before someone throws a beer bottle at your face.
500? 10,000+ before I'd be impressed.
I don't want to argue over the roots of spinning or anything, cause frankly I think the old school guys are as talented as it gets. Love DJ Screw, Screwston TX baby. Pretty awkward you'd equate that type of discipline and talent with what club djs do, but hey go for it pal. I have 5 friends (at least) who "spin" at local clubs, one who even opened for Pretty Lights on a tour. All started soph. year of college. They'll be the first to tell you that rich parents and free time are the only prerequisites to spinning.
If your buddy is a producer, there's a lot more credibility in that resume-wise. Like SirTrades said, I don't care if he spins in front of 10,000 people: putting "disc jockey" on a resume makes you look like an idiot. If he makes his own music and doesn't just mix together other samples, then putting "producer" has a lot more weight to it (and implies actual talent). Something to consider, $.02
Haha, I love where this relatively benign question has gone.
No one in finance will take you seriously if you put DJing on your resume. Leave it off, even if you think you can justify it, you won't even get the chance to do so.
i would view it as a mild positive, but i wouldn't necessarily count myself as the norm.
When I applied for internships last fall, I was afraid of putting Starcraft 2 on my resume. I was ranked top 2% in the world at the time and I played on the school's Starcraft team (yeah that exists...). Every firm LOVED it! I was asked about it by at least one interviewer at every firm. Anyone who didn't ask about it asked about another 'weird' thing I had in my additional info section. At the end of the day, I think interviewers get bored and would rather talk about something interesting in your "additional info" section than you being President of X club. When I did office visits, people I had never spoken to before were like "oh hey - you're the Starcraft guy!" You shouldn't hold back something that you legitimately enjoy, and consulting firms are a lot more tolerable to things like this than banks.
It sounds like it's a hobby, rather than a job. Thus, it goes in the 'interests' line right at the bottom of the page.
If I was reading your CV I would have no objection to seeing it there, and if anything would view it positively, as it means you're not a social retard. Even better, it makes a change from "sports, travelling, cooking, languages" and all the usual generic crap.
To the guy above, being top 2% in the world on Starcraft is not a good thing. That means you're a 1 in 50 of every 14 year old and lonely middle-aged man playing it. Furthermore, it's a class of 1000s. If you were Starcraft world champion, I would care.
Well for a line item on interests, I don't think it would hurt, like everything else in an interview you'd just need a good defense for it. Like in the case of Starcraft, the competition for something is usually dependent on the barriers to entry, and anyone with a computer and internet connection can play.
Being in the top 2% for something extremely obscure like making paint on binder clips and shit wouldn't be nearly as impressive as being in the top 2% in which everyone from a lonely middle-aged man to a 14 year old can get in on. Also as long as the person isn't a complete social retard, being highly ranked in a video game would still show competitiveness to me just as much if they were a all-star triathlete back in high school/college (even then genetics can still help hugely with that).
DJ Skribble played my 8th grade dance...he sucked though, but tons of free glowsticks
OP: does your friend have glowsticks?
A lot of you guys are ridiculous. 1) DJing is much more than simply "pressing play" 2) Even if DJing simply amounted to "pressing play", it indicates that he's not socially retarded and probably at least somewhat unique and interesting unlike most of you generic cookie-cutter finance robots 3) It's a fucking hobby
If someone dinged me because I listed "DJing" as a hobby, then I wouldn't want to work there anyways because I wouldn't fit in with the firm's lame culture
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