Should I list a Country Club on resume
as a social membership if it is very prestigious and well known? On one hand I know wall street has many country club types, on the other a certain person looking at the resume may judge you negatively by that.
Professionally, it really isn't much of an accomplishment to join a club, even if prestigious. I respect that some clubs are harder to get into but in terms of putting it on a resume, I say no. Risk isn't worth the reward.
NO
where do these people come from
Thanks Ben Shalome, good advice. It some sales positions, it helps to be connected to wealthy people, but i can definitely see both sides of the equation. Jimmy I know these people are horrible! Nicht Nicht!
Unless it's PWM - no.
Do not put a country club on your resume. If you do, however, please let me know if you get an offer and from where. I will make sure to not apply there.
Interviewers value, in order:
Obviously, people will argue that you must be from a prestigious school, prestigious background, lifestyle, family, whatever. I think thats a load of garbage. People who use things to show their 'prestige' are lacking one of the five items listed above and are therefore, trying to make up for it.
For the follow-up trolls, please see items 1-5 listed above, followed by the brief explanation afterwards, as that will be my response to you and your retorts.
Best of luck my friend.
I'm actually going to buck the trend here with an important caveat. If you are applying to a regional office of a bank (Non NYC Chicago etc) then putting the name of a country club could help. In my city there is a country club that, if you are/were a member conveys a lot more than just 'you're a pretentious kid' to your possible interviewer particularly if you can work it in a meaningful way (under interests played on XXCC tennis team or winner of CC tournament etc).
Clarification: If you just paid your dues (read: your daddy paid them) and you're asking this; go slam your head in a door.
I will agree with Happy that if you are the club champion and it is a well-known course, by all means put that. If you are just a run of the mill member that has his monthly bill covered by daddy, I would shy away because it will make you look like a spoiled bitch.
Dude, be serious. Social membership = jack shit.
Going to agree with consensus here and advise to keep it off the resume. I went to a prestigious prep school and did not include it on my resume because who the F cares (I'm post-MBA, by the way) at this point.
If you want to be sly about it, you could mention "golf" or "tennis" as one of your activities and you could bring up the club membership personally in interviews when asked about your pasttimes. I'd suspect this would be the safer approach as you could eyeball the interviewer and make a game-time decision whether they will think you are a douchebag or not.
Finally, I think you overestimate the number of people at Investment Banks who have country club memberships. Seriously.
Have you done any work as a caddy there? If so, listing that on your resume can't hurt.
Why not just pick up the club directory, it usually lists people with work and home number, business, title and profession; network with people from the club.
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