If I put this as the last line in my resume, will it get tossed??

Only if the reviewer isn't Canadian.

Your resume could potentially get tossed for that. Never put any sort of joke on your resume.

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Weather channel? Avril L? Are you retarded? At least i got a good laugh..

Hahaha.....I hope these really aren't your interests but why take the risk of putting all of these on a resume? If you are seriously into all these things don't put all of them on the resume- especially not in a row.

So what do you do? -I work for an investment banking firm. Oh okay; you are like my brother, he works for Edward Jones. -No, a college degree is required in my profession

If I was an interviewer I would let you interview first round, given that you had a solid resume other than that. At the beginning of the interview I would focus in on those interests. If I got the impression that for some unknown reason you really are interested in Avril and the Weather Channel I would then move on. If I could tell right away it was all a big laugh, I would tell you how your resume made me laugh, just like how I will laugh when your interview ends in approximately 3 seconds... Then I will laugh as you slowly get up and walk out of the room...

The Leafs? That's the biggest joke of them all.

Stick with the standards: travel, cooking, reading.

"Stick with the standards: travel, cooking, reading."

But how will I stick out? The Weather Channel makes me marketable.

On another hand, I heard a story about a kid who put "video games 24/7" exactly like that as an interest on his resume. He actually made it to the second round with Citi IBD before getting tossed.

feign interest in the weather channel when they ask you why you like it?? I live in England which is probably the most weather obsessed country in the world and even here you'd come off an absolute muppet. Also, guessing you are a guy, don't put a woman down as one of your interests. makes you look creepy. you can stick out using non controversial interests. anyway, by the time they've read to that line they would have already made up their mind about you.

I actually think this is a pretty good idea. Because when the interviewer is looking through thousands of interviews it will stand out. It also shows you have some sense of humor and real interests (I am assuming in the interest section most resumes have - golf,personal portfolio,ms excel,traveling, cusine, etc..) because they know and you know that its unconventional but you still decided to put it on your resume. And if everything else is solid then I think you will be in good shape. But then again I'm just a student I'm probably wrong.

"Also, guessing you are a guy, don't put a woman down as one of your interests."

I was referring to her songs. I guess I should clarify her. Maybe I should put Sum 41 instead

apologies. but you see how easy it is to misinterpret.

it definitely stands out. maybe try replacing the avril lavigne with something at least marginally cool.

i always thought that the biggest douches were the ones with something fake pretentious like "18th century spanish art, vintage french burgundy...etc"

Isn't a resume supposed to be professional, not funny? The resumes that get laughed at are usually the ones that are getting dinged... at the resume screening level your goal isn't to make the person laugh. I think people value a sense of humor in a congenial setting, like maybe making your interviewer laugh. I think you can stand out and be interesting without putting The Weather Channel and Avrile Levine under interests. How about something different in a cool/I-want-to-try-that way, not different in a quirky/eccentric/creepy kind of way... MMA, building robots, training monkey butlers, wind surfing, deep sea treasure diving, etc...

One of my friends works in a competitive but not banking field. And he ended up recruiting this kid because on his resume it said he was a "Smoke Jumper".... I'm not sure if any of you know what this is, but basically they are dropped out of a helicopter into a forest fire armed with a shovel and a fire resistant blanket and they basically have to put the fire out by somehow routing it to a controllable area using the shovel. The blanket is for if the fire passes over them, they basically dig a hole and bury themselves in it and cover up with the fire resistant blanket. When the fire passes, they dig themselves out and continue.

That is someone I would like to meet whether I want to hire them or not. Avrile Levine and Weather Channel enthusiast... not so much.

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you could be labled a homosexual which could be considered a minority so mabye it will help

"you could be labled a homosexual which could be considered a minority so mabye it will help"

from a fellow longhorn too....

I dare you to submit that. I would imagine it'd be difficult for the people interviewinng you to keep a straight face.