Leadership positions - Extracurricular activities

On your resume if you are president of Club A for one semester, Treasurer another semester, and Group Leader another semester do you have to specify the semester on the resume like

Club A
President - Semester A, Treasurer - Semester B, Group Leader - C

or is

Club A
President, Treasurer, and Group Leader

considered OK? I don't care about recruiters knowing about the times, just it creates a lot of clutter and I don't have room for all the titles on one line for several clubs.

Thanks!

 

Assuming your most recent position is the most prestigious position, I would use that position as the position mentioned. If, however, you want to highlight all 3 you can either list them without dates, as your latter entry suggests, or, if you have plenty of room, and this is a resume highlight for you, you can list each position and time served on the title line, followed by 2 or so bullets highlighting your experiences in that position. In other words: President and dates, then bullet points; next Treasurer and dates, then bullet points; finally group leader and dates, then bullet points.

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  1. As always change to the M&I format
  2. Put "Relevant Projects" after "Relevant Courses"
  3. Change Work Experience to Leadership Experience because that is a more accurate description
  4. NO PARAGRAPHS- change everything to concise bullet points
  5. Calm down with all the leadership positions and volunteering for a bit and get some real work experience to put on your resume.
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AP scholar is pushing it a bit. Even most college kids are scrubbing high school experience from their resumes, so with 2 years in the industry, you should have no room for HS activities anyway.

If you did something ASTONISHING in HS like worked at a hedge fund or published a book or something, then maybe.

 

This is how I would do it:

Dates should be aligned with right edge of paper

Business Club August 2013-Present (indented) Vice-President January 2014-Present (tabbed under indented position) - Things you did as VP

Sorry textbox does not allow me format it in the right way.

If you end up holding more than one position (as you should) then you have to change the way it is written to avoid wasting space

 

Dude listen, I've already been interviewing some kids with resumes that I couldn't even believe that got dinged right away. All that shit on your CV are just lines on paper, find away to convey you're passionate & bright and you'll get some looks. You can't do anything about those other kids, FUCK THOSE KIDS, the only thing they are is shit that's in your way. How long till you drop your resume if you haven't already? 1 wk maybe. Nothing you can do now. Watch below.

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It boils down to GPA only if you miss the mark completely, ie. no work experience, trying to get a job in banking and have a 3.0. Otherwise, if you are assuming that everyone you are competing against has similar credentials, you try to make yourself stand out. Joining (or being active) in something other than say the Finance Club or Economics Society is a good way to tell a story. For the most part, that will be set aside when you actually interview in person. You can have a perfect GPA, excellent leadership, etc. If they don't like you or you don't make a good impression, chances are you won't hear back.

 

I was on a conference call a week ago, when my bank was going through resumes. Essentially, the way the VPs/Dir/MD picked out the candidates was like this: 1. If GPA is above 3.9, he/she is in. 2. If there was any Investment banking or solid finance experience (this was for FT recruiting), he/she was in.

That took up about 15/20 candidates. The rest were based on networking, if they were a top player in a sports team, and other intangibles.

Leadership only came up once, when one of the resumes showed a 3.8 GPA, but no activities on his resume.

 

You should include the 2 IBD internships and write a lot about each of them. Leadership positions in clubs dont really count for much (especially when you have internship experience) With the amount that you write about your internships you should have space for 1 (maybe 2) of the leadership experiences They should take up not more than 2-4 lines ( 1 line for club, 1 line for position, 2 lines of explanation). Write about the ones you are most involved in/most relevant to the job you are applying to. The other 2 can be left out or quickly noted on the bottom of the resume as "business activities", or "other school societies" and can be included in a group of clubs like habitat for humanity, special olympics, and business club, ect.. Its not that it would look like resume padding, but you would be an idiot not to go into more detail on your two IBD internships (also, failing to go into detail on the internships might look suspicious and make it look like all you did was get coffee and make copies)

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I was in the same boat, what I ended up doing was pick the three most important activities and make a section called "Leadership Experience" or something, which went under "Work Experience" (where I put my internships). In your case, since all four are solid experiences, you might just want to include everything. I think generally people can read the bullet points and tell if you really did something or whether you're just trying to pad your resume. Just my $0.02 though, not a resume expert by any means

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Leadership experience on a resume is just a check mark on the boilerplate list of qualifications. Its binary, you either have it or you don't. You can have a lot of it, but you still only fall into the "have it" category.

That is unless its some extremely stellar stats... like captain of NCAA D1 football team, chairman of Harvard student run endowment fund, and Whitehouse intern. Obviously thats a different story.

 
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Leadership experience on a resume is just a check mark on the boilerplate list of qualifications. Its binary, you either have it or you don't. You can have a lot of it, but you still only fall into the "have it" category.

That is unless its some extremely stellar stats... like captain of NCAA D1 football team, chairman of Harvard student run endowment fund, and Whitehouse intern. Obviously thats a different story.

What about President of the Quidditch for Muggle's Club.....? Should I put that on my resume, and if so should I include how many Golden Snitch's I've captured (I'm a Seeker and my houses captain)?

 

appreciate the advice!

gekko - i have 8 lines for one IB , 6 for the other IB, 6 for a very significant leadership position, then 4, 3, and 2. would 6 lines be too short for an IB

 

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