Fraternity on resume?
Does anyone have an opinion or story relating to keeping your fraternity on a resume? Does it do more harm than good? Have any senior-level professionals ever overheard HR gossip relating to this subject?
Does anyone have an opinion or story relating to keeping your fraternity on a resume? Does it do more harm than good? Have any senior-level professionals ever overheard HR gossip relating to this subject?
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I don't see anything wrong with including it. But, do it in the context of something you accomplished ("raised $X for Y charity through organizing event") so it doesn't just seem like a shameless toss-out hoping that someone making a hiring decision is a brother. I've never heard of anyone getting dinged for having it on their resume - but others may have stories? It is 2018 after-all.
If you are more than a few years out of school - replace it with some relevant professional experience.
pretty much excludes you from any highly analytical / quant role.
(and that might not be a bad thing.)
...what?
If you were prytanis or any other e-board type of position you're probably pretty safe to throw it on your resume, but if you were just frat starring keystone ices, maybe let it come up organically in your interview. Always tailor your CV to your audience.
As an aside, always a good idea to check out your interviewer's LinkedIn and see if that's even something worth bringing up. GDI's tend to ding you if you bring that shit up unprompted.
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Someone's a TKE.
From one TKE to another...yikes.
If you're going to put it on there also make sure you actually know the handshake FFS.... Had a guy that came in to interview one time and he was in the same group as a colleague that was interviewing him with me. Dude comes in and my co-worker goes to do the handshake and interviewee completely whiffs/doesn't know it. Very embarrassing for everyone involved.
List it as a leadership position in your education section. Be sure to de-code it if your fraternity uses goofy titles (so President, not Consul).
I've been amazed how many times it has come up in networking and job interviews.
Subtlety drop it into your campus involvement section and only bring it up if promoted. Any one that dings you for being Greek probably isn’t someone you want to work for...
Yeah, toss it in, especially if you held a leadership position. I'd try and start downsizing it though as you get older.
Pretty much everyone in RE was a sick frat dude back in college, so once you start meeting people, it can be something you talk about over beers, not during an interview.
Banged “x” smokeshows while managing the social budget for the house while under the influence at least 50% of the work week. Leveraged copious amounts of alcohol and weed to acquire multiple late night experiences with the highest ranking sorority girls on the League Tables. Closed 75% of all transactions encountered; would have closed 100% but couldn’t get inside at a low basis and discovered some nasty shit in due diligence...
I say do it.
my resume has a 2 line section at the bottom for college societies / clubs where I putI was a member of my fraternity. Sometimes it comes up, usually it doesn't. I don't make a big deal about it either way. I would say 50% of the people who have interviewed me at banks were also in fraternities or sororities, even if they were different organizations.
I have a very similar section in which I will include general interests. It's always nice to have a good conversation starter. I just recently got hired for a new position and during the superday I had 4/6 interviewers ask about some of the topics at the bottom of my resume.
I have keg stand, beer pong and team captain in flip cup in my skills section
First job out of school? Go for it, just downplay the partying and push the philanthropy piece. Every other job? Drop it off.
Good idea
Couple years ago I came to work wearing a T-shirt that said ФАК (it’s the F-word, spelled in Cyrillic). I was promptly asked by someone “what fraternity is that?” On the topic, I can’t imagine anyone deducing anything negative from it, so it sounds like a free option. However, be ready to talk about it detail - I, for instance, had a junior that was from some famous MIT fraternity and he knew an incredible amount of history linked to it (in fact, I constantly felt he knows less about his major than about his fraternity).
PS. interesting, the site here changes Cyrillic to the english alphabet
If you’re not white and other stuff gives it away it could be useful for resume whitening.
What the fuck?
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Can you possibly overthink something more? I went to school and was in a fraternity in the south. I get how big fraternities can be. Throw it on your resume - there are literally zero negatives to including it. Honestly - If I told you the ridiculous crap kids throw on their resumes sometimes, you would never ask this question.
Stop overthinking every single thing. Understand there is a 99.9% chance it means nothing to the person reading your resume. The other 0.01% is it's someone in your fraternity and they recognize it. Any job worth its salt it's definitely not going to help you beyond an icebreaker...
Is putting “certified user - Wall Street oasis” toeing this line of what constitutes ridiculous crap? Asking for a friend
But but the president of the frat said it would look good...
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