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!
Just put your most recent position - which hopefully coincides with the highest position (president).
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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so it is OK if you dont want to do your second suggestion to just write Treasurer & Philanthropy Chair or something if you were treasurer last semester and Phil Chair the semester before?
I've been wondering about this too. And a related question - if I only list my most recent (highest) position, can I still list the dates including the older positions? Or is that 'lying' by saying that I was president for 2 years if I was really treasurer for one year and president for one?
Thanks,
Dublin
any other thoughts? thanks !
Resume Help - Bunch of leadership experience (Originally Posted: 04/06/2013)
Here is my resume that I have gotten reviewed from multiple professional career services coordinators. I have a bunch of leadership experience and am trying to find the best way to demonstrate that I can translate it to the real world. If you could tell me what you think about it, that would be fan-freakin-tastic. Be honest, it will help me a lot more.
Does your school make you go 3 decimal points with GPA? If not, I'd advise changing it to 2 (i.e. 3.79).
Put a date for each position. Remove the outside box. Right align the dates.
Change the spacing on "Other Experience And Activities" as the and is too close.
Thanks for the feedback.
If you get a job on wall st be prepared for hazing worse than you were trying to stop with your task force
Leadership positions - Looks neater (Originally Posted: 04/27/2010)
if say i was president of a club for 2 terms in the past but not anymore and also secretary at one point, can i just say President & Treasurer under the club on my resume or do i need the years? i dont really care if they find out, it just looks neater without dates next to each one
It's fine, leadership positions aren't even verified in background checks.
Be ethical and honest. Sucks to get caught in a misrepresentation especially over something that really doesn't even matter.
dude just write CEO looks even more impressive.
Which year's leadership positions do juniors include on their resume for recruiting? (Originally Posted: 03/13/2016)
Hi fellow monkeys,
I was wondering what year's leadership positions do juniors recruiting for IB put on their resume. Do they usually just include any sophomore leadership positions or is it more common to put junior year leadership positions even when they are recruiting early in their junior year? I know that this is a weird question, but I am asking this because I will be recruiting primarily in the fall of this year, but I have recently been offered a number of leadership positions for next year. I want to include my junior year leadership positions, but I know that I will not have much to talk about in my resume because I would have only been in that position for a few months. What do you all think?
Thanks!
Bump
How far back to go with "Leadership, activities & achievements"? (Originally Posted: 03/08/2011)
All,
Am preparing my PE resume (I know, I'm behind the game a bit) following a 2 years at an MBB Firm and was wondering how far back is appropriate to go with your leadership, activities, etc. section?
What's fair game from you college career?
Is anything from High school fair game? my guess is not, but what about pretty impressive achievements?
Any thoughts welcome, thanks
(Also, please find image attached of the resume section used to land current position)
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.
Leadership Role on Resume (Originally Posted: 05/07/2014)
Hey guys,
I am a second semester freshman who was lucky enough to earn a VP role in a business-club at my university.
I joined this club on August 2013, and was made VP next semester (Jan.2014).When mentioning this club and my leadership role, should I include the dates of my leadership role (Jan 2014 - Present) or just include the date when I first joined the club (Aug 2013 - Present)?
The reason I'm asking this question is because I don't want to deceive/misguide prospective employers when they screen my resume.
Thanks in advance.
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
Only have to mention your most senior position, unless you are demoted
Resume Leadership - does anyone really care (Originally Posted: 09/14/2010)
Former and current I-bankers and summer interns..
does it matter what leadership I have. i have all the usual "leadership", student government, debate, MUN, editor etc
but does any of this make a difference
lately ive heard that recruiters really wanna see a 'story' in a resume...
or does it all boil down to GPA or randomness
keep in mind at a top school, half the hopefuls have some leadership and alot have near perfect GPAs
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.
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.
I would agree with the above posters. Leadership experience is just another box that gets checked, you either have it or you don't. I would say a solid GPA trumps leadership experience, a lower GPA will require more/better leadership experiece, and solid GPA AND leadership experience means you're probably golden.
grandpabuzz what type of firm: BB, top boutique, MM or regional boutique??
Thanks. Appreciate the comments.
So essentially it all boils down to gpa. Works for me I have a good gpa
Can too much leadership look bad? (Originally Posted: 03/21/2010)
i'm involved in a bunch of business/economics organizations on campus and held leadership positions in 3 of them, and the other is a very solid extracurricular as well. if i include all four on my resume as separate experiences would that bolster it or look like too much resume padding? i have 2 IBD internships as well so would it be better to take one or 2 leadership positions off to maintain focus?
wow, is HBS banging on your doors?
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)
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
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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