What one person views positively, can easily been seen negatively by another
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:25 am
Another problem can be if you list a hobby that has bad associations for an employer. I recruited for a company many years ago and I’ll never forget the manager pushing a perfectly good candidate’s resume back at me because ‘he is into body-building’. When I asked why this was a problem his response was that they had another guy work for them who pursued body building and took huge amounts of time off for his training. Who says this candidate would do the same? Too late though, he’d made his mind up. A bit like considering a name for your child and you know someone else with the name – you have an impression already.
Some people feel that hobbies and interests are important because they inject a bit of sri lanka phone number library your personality into the resume. They can – if the person reading has something in common with you perhaps.
For me the risks outweigh the possible benefits. My advice is not to include hobbies and interests.
However if you do, be very careful about what you include. Obviously a mechanic with a love of restoring vintage cars and rebuilding engines would be a good fit. Others say marathon running is a great display of fitness and endurance, a great quality for a physically demanding job, but you are relying on assumptions.
I prefer to learn more about a person at interview. Many interviewers use these questions as a warm up to the interview, a bit of a ‘get to know you’ session.
At least when you are in front of someone and describing your interests you have some hope of reading their reaction and controlling the situation.
Include them in a resume and you have no way of doing that at all.
Some people feel that hobbies and interests are important because they inject a bit of sri lanka phone number library your personality into the resume. They can – if the person reading has something in common with you perhaps.
For me the risks outweigh the possible benefits. My advice is not to include hobbies and interests.
However if you do, be very careful about what you include. Obviously a mechanic with a love of restoring vintage cars and rebuilding engines would be a good fit. Others say marathon running is a great display of fitness and endurance, a great quality for a physically demanding job, but you are relying on assumptions.
I prefer to learn more about a person at interview. Many interviewers use these questions as a warm up to the interview, a bit of a ‘get to know you’ session.
At least when you are in front of someone and describing your interests you have some hope of reading their reaction and controlling the situation.
Include them in a resume and you have no way of doing that at all.