To make your resume stand out to recruiters and hiring managers, consider creating a separate section for your extracurriculars, labeled as “Activities”, “Volunteer Experience”, or “Interests”. These activities can help develop skills needed to make your resume stand out. If you lack practical work experience or have a strong personality, extracurricular activities can give you a fighting edge over experienced candidates.
To make your extracurricular activities relevant to each application, tailor the examples you use to align with the job description. Identify key skills or responsibilities mentioned in the activities.
When creating a professional resume, list some extracurricular activities or hobbies that speak to you as a person. For example, sports, volunteering, student council, tutoring, studying abroad, clubs/organizations, and fundraising are some of the best options.
Additionally, include any awards or honors or extracurricular activities you participated in while attending that school/college in the Activities and Societies text box. Singing and acting activities are good candidates as they help others connect with you during interviews.
Include clubs, extracurricular activities, honors, or other significant things in your Experience section. If you have many leadership positions through extra-curricular activities, include this in your Experience section. This will help you stand out in the job market and compensate for the work you put in.
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Great content, wish I had the resources and capacity to do this back in school . But never too late to invest in yourself and improving the lives of those around you . Working on developing an idea which will benefit and impact lives myself . Being in service of others and witnessing peeps go through life transformation to achieve their full potential, fulfils your own purpose of being and bringing you much abundance in return . Keep it up, Mahdi !!
This was soooo helpful,I’m a an Indian Harvard aspirant and I’m struggling to find extra curricular activities since in india we don’t stress on them,only academics is important in India. Thanks a lot for this article!😊 I have a question, if I learn a new language, would that be considered an extra curricular activity too?
I’ll be asking you the same question that you answered in this article, but in a bit more specific way, as I want to shift my trend, and due to being isolated from my field of interest, while pursuing a field of non-interest. I’m a student currently pursuing engineering, but was interested in science from the very beginning. And now would like to shift to science after my BE. currently to my knowledge building a profile that shows undertaking sciency things (like projects and research papers) improves the chances of getting admitted in addition to taking the GRE test. My question to you is what all projects, courses, or any undertaking in general would you suggest. (Science related) and what are the most recent stuff going on in science which I could start working on, or at least educate myself with to improve my profile? Also, you can let me know anything else that you might have to say which would help me in getting into science.
#Help Hi I need some info about ECA. I love coding. What kind of Extra curricular activities I can do with coding? And how can I add them in my application? How’ll they verify my ECA? Suppose, If I made a drone project with code . Would it be considered as my ECA? I mean if I made a project,🏆” where I can show it and win any certificate or medals which could help me to get in.”🏆 Or is there any kind of competition ? Tell me about hackathon,robo projects if you know. Thank you.
Hey, bro. Thanks for your article. IT was Amazing. I got an idea, but i’m know sure if it’ll help to get accepted into a college. I’d Like to teach spanish. I’m latin, but I do can speak english, so in my articles i would be explaing spanish stuff in english. To get to a begginer public, then I could offer some zoom spaces where I can speak spanish with people that would like to practice with a native speaker. I’m applying next Year, I like bussines, marketing and some financial, So getting a bussines out of my articles would be a nice idea, wouldn’t it?
I volunteered for this local business working in the cash department this Covid period for free (Cuz its my fav place to eat and their sales were so down). Also tutored some students of an orphanage. do i mention this in my college application? Do I need to get volunteering proof or anything like certificate, acknowledgement letter ? Cuz I just did these because it made me happy but I don’t have any proof of it