Most bold thing listed in your interests on resume
Title says the question. Really interested to see how bold some of y’all are in the interests section at the bottom of the resume
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WWII history - not too bold, but have been asked about it in interviews. Will gauge the other party’s interest and knowledge and then dive in. Have talked about Wojtek the bear to Castle Itter (Germans fought alongside Allied POW’s against the SS). Once spent an hour discussing whether we should’ve nuked Japan which ended up with me and the two dudes interviewing me watching a YouTube video about the bunkers on Iwo Jima.
I highly suggest reading about WWII for any of you who have not. It’s nearly impossible to grasp just how large of a scale this war was
>Wojtek
>Castle Itter
Git gut scrub lmao, that's pophistory 101. Let's talk when you can explain the entirety of the Soviet backpush starting from Stalingrad until Operation Bagration in one-month-instances.
Nobody in an interview is interested in that level of detail - do you have any book recommendations?
Toured the atomic museum in Vegas not too long ago and concur. Never knew how big of a war it really was until seeing some of the nuclear ramifications in Japan.
No WWII without WWI imo, though. Highly recommend Ernst Nolte’s book “The European Civil War” if you’re interested in both. His thesis is that they’re ultimately both part of the same conflict.
There’s an English translation on Substack that isn’t very difficult to find, I can’t post the link so DM if you need help finding it.
Awesome - thanks for this. Def feel WWI gets overlooked. The beginning where cavalry charged into machine guns is insane and something that’s hard to believe actually happened
I will never admit it in an interview, of course, but I seriously believe Storms of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) to be one of the greatest books written about the nature of War and how it affects Man of all time. Heck, even Elon Musk approved of it.
+1 for Kapral Wojtek, he was always down to rage with the boys and have a good time. Hilarious podcast episode about him on "History is Dank" for anyone that's interested: https://allthingscomedy.com/podcast/history-is-dank/someone-get-wojtek-…
I am listing a skill on my resume that I allude to have acquired at a job I worked at for a longer time during college. In reality, I spend two workdays there and they never taught me that stuff, I only recently got interested in it. I also say I love to run, which is a big fat lie, I fucking hate running lmao.
It's funny, with popular resume formats an internship from June 30th to July 1st could show as June 2022 - July 2022 and look like two months
I have a couple younger relatives that have completed PWM internships with friends & family connections/etc., and I always advise them to try and arrange the internship to be from like June 30 - August 2 or something like that lol. 1 month of work, looks like a full 3 month/10 week internship.
no one ever asked you about running?
it's easy to spot a fake runner by just asking "what shoe brand do you like?"
Previous amateur boxer with an undefeated boxing record
Nice
Most of what I list is pretty non-controversial, but I always get questions on "Theoretical Astrophysics". Not sure that it's bold per sé, but it is a wildcard and something I can speak to.
Mexican National Olympics
Swimming - Freestyle, Breast stroke and butterfly 200 meters (1st, 4th, 3rd
Also, WW2 Record Keeping
Family fought in WW1 and WW2. My great grandparents final resting point was never known, we just knew he was KIA in Libia. Back in 2009 my dad and I finally were able to get some closure and locate where he was killed. We were able to give him aproper goodbye and a marked grave.
My grandad also always tells me a story about when he was 6 years old in London. One day during recess at school, a Messerschmidt dove down and targeted the cupola and surrounding area. Around 12 of his friends were killed that day.
Interviewers are always captivated by my story, and I talk to them about a personally project of creating a giant family tree, including significant historic events.
eeessseeee weeeeyyyyy
What is Mexican National Olympics?
-Fellow swimmer here...
Ironman, National Snowboard Boardercross competitor (2x)
ironman is impressive, i have ultra running and one day I'll do an iron man
I attempted a 50mi trail run and only made it 47.6mi. I thought it was harder than an Ironman. I have friends who do 100mi Ultras. My one friend is doing this 100mi race in July: https://www.crazymountainultra.com
had poker on there for a bit, actually was received well if you tie in the math to it
I replied to this post twice already and both posts disappeared.
I have poker on my resume under experience because I spent 2015 playing it full time and if I leave it out, there is a gap on there and I get questions about the gap. But, if I put poker on there, usually people only ask about it 25% of the time. I have a lot of different experiences. But, in 2015 I had an interview to do research in Neuroscience in 2016 and knowing behavioral psychology in poker was actually helpful in landing the position under a Neuroscientist in Neuroimaging.
Very interesting. I don't have the guts to put it on mine yet, maybe I should reconsider that.
What do you do for work in finance now?
mountaineering
K1 + k1 = k2
username checks out
Badass , any good starter mountains you recommend
Depends on your location and time constraints. If you already have some mountaineering experience, the Cordillera Real is great for getting to high altitude without needing too much techincal ability.
Juggling. I can juggle six items. And yes, I have demonstrated when pressed.
Most career coach types say take it off. I leave it on for 2 reasons. First, that my resume was read to the bottom. Second, if they are asking about that interest, it’s likely I’ve passed the high hurdle of qualifying for the job, now it’s fit.
Me debating on whether the dead giveaway paper trail is worth the loss of shitposting capabilities…
Once put long range rifle shooting on my resume just to see if people actually looked at that section. One of the people reviewing the resumes gave me a call to chat about it for 20 min before telling me he had to ding my cv because of it. In reality I had only been rifle shooting over 500 yards once and could only talk about it becuse I had a decent background in physics. It blew the guys mind when I said I had to account for the spin of the earth at over a mile. Completely made that shit up and had no idea if it is true.
i have a friend who also put rifle shooting (he was an Eagle Scout and earned the merit badge) but fortunately the interviewers were impresssed by it. Keeping in mind these interviewers were east coast BB guys not some midwest Cargill guy.
can confirm, am an eagle scout and have shot like 5 or so times and completely bullshit when asked about
Esports/professional gaming
Yeah this is mine as well
When they ask you about it what do they say? When you mean professional gaming like do you travel with your team to like the majors/minors or is it more like online leagues and stuff you play in?
Top X placements at majors. Just tell them the truth generally as they can google it if they really want to.
Quarter mile drag racing
Whatcha race? What time?
You live your life a quarter mile at a time? Is family the most important thing?
Family and Coronas.
I've lived in tents and a forest for significant periods of time (~2 months) and include it on my resume. Always turns a couple of heads, but nothing crazy.
One of the girls I worked with was #1 in biathlon in the US, and another who I participated in a club with won the US Amateur.
I have “Computer Building” and “Mechanical Keyboards” on mine.
Automotive technology- quick way to humble all the "car enthusiast" Vp's who interview me:)
Explains why you’re still in “Other”
StarCraft 2 Grandmaster (2011) - so in 7th grade based on my age at the peak of the game’s popularity: got me some really sick reactions from the prop trading firms whose guys grew up on dota/league/sc2.
Also Collegiate eSports (CS:GO) and Competitive Powerlifter. Usually people see all this together and are just shocked to hear a kid who was grandmaster in 7th grade and playing in college CSGO tournaments also benches 345 and has soft skills and yeah my interests combined with just performing really well in interviews landed me multiple offers.
I 100% have to feel like talking about my interests and experiences set me apart because there’s hundreds of candidates smarter than me but probably all 100 didn’t look like they’d mesh with any team they got put in lol whether that be the gamers or the athletes or the chess players etc.
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Gaming and lifting is great. Some people laugh when they find out I play Warzone around 2 hours a day and most of my weekends. Typically get 6+ kills a match and finish Top 3 almost every time.
Yup, stopped playing after HOTS but I had moved from NA servers to Korean servers and only got Master there haha my goal was to get Korean GM but then I realized going from top 100ish GM to even top 50 was an insane grind. I was a little chubby boy in 7th/8th grade and was missing out on friends and important stuff like playing outside and being healthy and I realized it at the time so I switched to league of legends for a more team-based game where I could play with friends and at least get the social interaction I was missing out on through league.
Then went through high school gaming all the time and had a pretty normal friend group but was an INTJ type personality just hanging out on discord and being the quiet one in the friend group, and then throughout college, everything flipped pretty quickly once I started hitting the gym and getting more attention from people. AIso couldn't balance being top in esports with school but I could easily just add 1-2 hours of gym per day to a workload so went from gaming to gym but you never really lose the stuff you developed from gaming haha it's all muscle memory so now that I graduated I play a few hours of like league of legends or CS:GO and I'm still like Global Elite CSGO but only gold on league haha.
So I just ended up as a pretty fit guy who games a lot and enjoys talking to people of all different personalities because I really did kind of live everything from the cringe lord stuff in middle school to the quiet gamer in HS to the guy in a fraternity who lifts and studies in College. Picked up Trading/Quant Trading as a career path because it was entrepreneurial and meritocratic and haven't looked back since.
I was ranked #9 worldwide in Starcraft during the first ladder season and top 20 for the second ladder season (we’re talking 1998, I was 13). Only once did I ever put it on my resume when I was applying for a summer internship at a gaming company. I didn’t really end up playing SC2, but appreciate the skills the game develops.
I always knew you were the man. #9 is pretty good. I also don't know much about Starcraft except that this poker player Elky used to play it.
https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/ElkY
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is a retired StarCraft progamer from France who played Terran for AMD Dream Team.
Bertrand Grospellier was a member of the AMD / Hexatron franchise, one of the few proteams to carry active foreign players in Brood War. He began his televised playing career in early 2002, and finished in mid 2004. He played terran for most of his career, and is considered the second most successful foreigner in Korea after Grrrr.
Elky's biggest achievement in Korea was reaching the semifinals of the SKY OSL in the summer of 2002. In the semifinals Elky battled the Emperor, Boxer, in a best-of-5. That series was marred by controversy as Boxer used the allied-mine trick, causing a regame. Elky fell in the semifinals to Boxer, and then lost a disappointing set to Yellow for the 3rd place spot. Nevertheless, no other player since Elky has even qualified for individual play, and his reputation as a legend is intact.
Outside Korea, Elky proudly represented his country at four WCG final tournaments. In the inaugural WCG in 2001, he made the finals after beating GoRush. There he had to face Boxer for the second time in the tournament but was unable to emerge victorious.
Elky retired from competitive StarCraft after failing to make it out of the Sping MST Qualifiers of 2005 and now plays professional poker for a living.
Shit man you’re like me. Been playing valve games since I was 12. Started out in tf2, then moved to Dota, then csgo. Played at two lans in my younger years, but I was never really good enough to go all the way. Here I am now with two powerlifting meets under my belt and still playing valve games. You’re like me except I was something of a deadlift specialist with a respectable squat and a dreadful bench.
It’s so odd that in all my interviews for jobs I took that the interest section was a huge connection point. Sometimes taking a good 30 min up and I have niche things listed. Never overlook the power of a diverse interest section.
Glad to know this works well out of college--my interviews have also gone great when the conversation moves to interests. A lot of people overlook the importance of that section
Video games and skateboarding
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"9.25 Inches (soft)"
Had "mixology" as I'm into the stories behind famous cocktails but felt "bartending" on my resume was an insult to actual bartenders. All good... except I was underage at the time. Nobody gave a shit, but was definitely an interesting conversation that got laughs out of a few guys.
CV hasn't gotten enough rotation yet for interests to actually have people engage me on it.
As someone who interviews candidates a decent amount, put some thought into your interests, its amazing how finding common ground with an interviewer can increase the perception of a candidate.
I think history and books are good launching points as people who are interested tend to be very passionate. I would add fitness and travel can be good as well. The more niche the better it tends to drive interaction I would say.
Dont waste the space and be generic. Be interesting
So are you saying write that I drink exclusively dos equis?
I didn't know this was a real thing past college applicants. Somethign liek this would be fine:
Interests
I have "avid Bob Dylan fan" but no one over the age of 50 has interviewed me so it never comes up.
I put down my martial arts experience (black belt, instructor experience) as well as 'ice-breaker' reference to my Game of Thrones fandom. After all, the point of extracurriculars being listed on CV is to give something to talk about in terms of achievements and dedication (ie. martial arts) or something to chat about before getting down to business
I got rid of this section after graduating. But previously I had anime listed (never had anyone comment on it though).
My most bold were "Hiking 14ers", "Middle East History", "Urban Planning", and "Pond Hockey". None were that bold but I got asked about all of them constantly in interviews
I have mountaineering and Middle East history on mine right now lmao
Dude Ben Shapiro is into mountaineering???
Historical European Martial Arts. Specifically focused on the teachings of Liechtenauer. Participated in some regional tournaments, but unfortunately nothing too much more advanced because I was so busy at the time (teenager) and more so now.
It was a popular question, dudes like sword fighting.
I found a dinosaur fossil which is now kept at my University’s museum of paleontology. I thought I’d get more questions about it, but I’ve really only discussed it in depth once. It replaced virtually all of my behavioral questions lmao
Who the hell puts an "interests" section on a resume? What kinda stupid shit is that? Do people really?
It’s one line, not a section. At worst it provides a few additional conversation points, at best it can help further demonstrate you’re a very well-rounded prospect - check the comments above on the powerlifting SC Grandmaster,
Yes, actually probably the most important line on the entire resume OTE
Technical Diving. Diving beyond 40M using various gas blends and decompression procedures to reduce risk of bends / nitrogen narcosis / oxygen toxicity. Usually end up discussing favourite dives if they’re a diver too.
I've been diving in SC, cave diving in FL, Bahamas, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, and Egypt.
It’s definitely plan to head to Mexico and FL at some stage for cave training and dives. Did you do your cave course there too?
Also into tec diving. AN / DP / cave / advanced wreck certified, living in NYC - PM me let's chat
Offered professional soccer contract at a feeder team. Has come up every interview I've had
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Just tell the truth?
If you went to the Olympics, it isn't cocky to say you went to the Olympics.
Carpentry
Amateur boxer. It's true, I started boxing as a teenager and have 7-0 amateur record...although the last two were against other B-school students at a charity fight night event, so I probably shouldn't count those.
Brunettes
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