unicycling skills on your CV

Ok, rather than take the commuting thread too far off topic, I thought
I'd start a new one.

As mentioned earlier, I list my unicycle skills on my CV, as well as
juggling, rubiks cube and hot rod driving. These are fairly unusual
for a smart suited city manager, but I believe they give me the edge
over someone else with the same kind of skills but more mundane
interests.

However, there is an argument that you are instantly labelling youself
as some kind of freak and would therefore never get to an interview
stage.

Luckily, the company I work for is a large recruitment/head hunting
consultancy which specialises in the financial, professional and
pharmaceutical sectors, so I have taken the chance to ask a cross
section of the consultants their opinion on this.

It'll probably take a couple of days for all the replies to come back
to me, but in the mean time, I'm curious to know your views.

Obviously if you're applying for jobs such as childrens entertainer
then including unicycling on your CV is probably compulsory!

Cheers

STM


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I put on my CV that I ride trials unicycles. No-one said anything until
they asked me what I did at the weekend! Lol! It got me the job
though!

Rock on!
Edd


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semach.the.monkey wrote:

However, there is an argument that you are instantly labelling youself
as some kind of freak and would therefore never get to an interview
stage.




It might save you going to interviews when they don't want to employ
some kind of freak with loads of odd piercings?

Joe


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I have mountain unicycling on my CV; it was brought up at the interviews
for my current and previous jobs in systems and software engineering,
both in a positive manner.

At the first, one of the interviewers was a very active person who was
intrigued, so the conversation covered my unicycling and biking before
moving on to his sailing, which I also have an interest in. We had an
excellent rapport by the end when we finally moved on to work related
subjects.

In the end that interview lasted about an hour, most of which was
nothing to do with work...

Phil


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bah, at least the person might remember you and go.. wait its the
unicycle dude!

I mean after reading 20cv's hopefully the one with unicycling in makes
the guy chuqle.


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It is also a good way in an interview to get a conversation going where
the person will open up a bit more and you can get a better feel of how
the person is like.


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Mountain unicycling is on my CV, although since I've been riding muni
I've only had one job interview, and they didn't mention it.


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I always put unicycling, juggling, etc on my CV. In my line of work
interviewers typically like to see that you have a life outside work
and that you have good stress management strategies. They like to see
you having interesting hobbies. It also gives interviewers something to
ask me if I'm babbling incoherently and obviously too nervous to answer
any proper questions.

I even used learning to unicycle to illustrate an answer to a question
in my last interview. The interviewer was very impressed and said I had
very good 'joined up thinking', whatever that may be.


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