I'm a rising senior and I'm in the process of updating my resume after my summer internship. At what point should I remove minimum-wage summer jobs from my resume? For reference, I have completed two internships, have had a RA/TA position with a professor, and I've had a few club leadership positions in addition to past summer jobs. For full-time positions is it better to include actual paid work experience (waiter, lifeguard, etc.) or should I include my club leadership positions?
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Two ways of thinking about it.It can make you seem more approachable and if you have some funny stories from those jobs you may even get asked about them.Don't do it especially if you never even mention them in your "tell me about yourself"I was a coffee shop employee and a landscaper at one point. I took of landscaper but I always made a joke about the coffee shop in some of the intro behavioral questions. I know a guy who worked at dominos and has been in IB for two years now that still has it in his resume.
Thanks for the response! I don't plan on mentioning my minimum wage jobs in my "tell me about yourself" answer, as I have a fair amount of finance-focused experience from my internships. I also don't have any funny stories from any of my past jobs, but I do have some good customer relationship "stories" that can be good for some nontechnical questions. I'm leaning towards keeping one minimum wage job on as a way to show "grit"
An1 - Obviously, your resume should be mostly geared towards the roles you are applying to (i.e. banking). I would recommend keeping at least one on, but I would pick one that others can relate to. I personally would choose waiter over lifeguard. I just think lifeguards tend to be from affluent backgrounds and use that as an easy summer job where they can get a nice tan. To be a lifeguard, you have to be in an area that has easy access to a pool or ocean, which is usually an affluent area. I obviously wouldn't knock anyone for being a lifeguard, but do you see what I'm getting at? I don't think too many people would be impressed by sitting at a pool all summer - the minimum wage jobs should highlight a unique experience or show type of grit. I once had a job where I was working 60 hours a week in a factory. I mentioned this to an MD during an interview, and he told me that I definitely should have included that on my resume.
Thanks for the advice! I actually have never been a lifeguard (I was just using it as an example), but I agree that I would only keep one job on my resume. I'm leaning towards including either my actual job as a waiter (for communication/customer service reasons) or my brief landscaping job, which I think communicates hard work. Thanks, again
If the landscaping job is very brief compared to a much longer waiter job, I would go with the waiter.
Don't waste a ton of space on it but I think it is worth including something like a waiter position-- good chance you can connect with an interviewer who worked a similar job when they were in college
Remove them all.
difficult to understand without preparation
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