Bringing Up Fraternity Experience in Interview

First thing you learn when pledging is to never talk about your experience to geeds. Its okay to put your frat on ur resume but once you graduate, no one cares.

Frats are hit or miss- an interviewer who was in Greek life will automatically connect with you more knowing you’re in a frat, but there’s also plenty of interviewers who will think Greek life is nothing more than binge drinking and sexual assault and will think you’re a total hoodlum for being in a frat.

I say either put it on your resume and don’t bring it up unless asked about, which allows people to ask if it’s something their into it or ignore it otherwise, or just completely leave it off.

Personally, I left my frat experience completely off my resume even though I had a semester as president and a semester as treasurer. I thought the risks (some HR lady had a negative encounter with Greek life, sees frat president on my resume, and throws it straight in the garbage) outweighed the reward of the chance of a minor connection with my interviewer. I did network with alums from my chapter and always made sure to talk about my positions with them, but I just thought it wasn’t worth gambling with that info on unknown people.

lol depends on interviewer, he might ding u or push for u 50/50

Just avoid this. One google of your frat and they see becky blacked out and had an ambulance called, it won’t bode well for you

Talking about leadership is fine, but do not bring up pledging as an "under pressure" scenario. It's a weird thing to bring up, and you never know if your interviewer might think its extremely weird.

This is such a simple answer, no need for all this discussion. The answer is no.

One superday, I got to the last room and the associates had my composite picture (filthy handlebar mustache and all) printed out. Was a fun convo, but in hindsight probably a sign I didn’t even have a shot haha.

I was in a fraternity in college and now am an associate at an IB. Chances are if you bring up an experience in your fraternity as a time that you faced adversity or for any personal/growth story, then you probably have a pretty easy life and need to branch out. One of the biggest regrets I have now looking back was that I gave too much of a crap about the fraternity and didn't hustle more on the job front or join different professional clubs on campus.

I know I may be deviating from OP's original post but for people in greek life who view this post, give less of a fuck about your fraternity. It shouldn't serve as a focal point for your social/professional growth story.

Chad Frederick Chillingsworth III Sigma Alpha Epsilon - August 2019 - Present Positions Held: Pledge

Don’t say it in an interview if you wouldn’t say it on national TV.

Discussing leadership experience and initiatives is fine (so long as it meets the above criteria).

Something like “I was treasurer, found out we didn’t collect 25% of dues, and brought that down to 12% by sending a second late notice and offering extended payment plans” is a great response, but things like “numbers were down so we started offering hard liquor at parties” or “I kept a cool head as a pledge” are terrible

if you were president or treasurer, yes. otherwise the only time it gets brought up is an example of how much you love philanthropy because you got started thru the frat

Mention hazing if you want to get crossed off a list. Dude ur an idiot

I would ding you because it's a bad answer, not necessarily because you brought up your frat. If having to recite some shit during hazing is the best example of delivering under pressure that you have, you've either never been under actual pressure or have never accomplished anything while you were.

If you told me that as your best example of being under pressure, I would throw your resume in the trash instantly.....not because it's a frat thing, but because that is really sad if college hazing is the most pressured situation that life has thrown at you so far.