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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 -- semach.the.monkey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ semach.the.monkey's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12078 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/54556 |
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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 -- Eddbmxdude Its like England here....Iv never seen so much sun! "Mmmm, I can smell bread!..........I wonder if thats what you smell before you die?" - My workmate, Paul "Unicycling only makes you look like a freak when you're riding." - Unisteve ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eddbmxdude's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11584 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/54556 |
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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 -- joemarshall my pics http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albuq44 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ joemarshall's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1545 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/54556 |
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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 -- phil "Cattle Prods solve most of life's little problems." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phil's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/915 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/54556 |
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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. -- brendan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brendan's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13680 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/54556 |
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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. -- ntappin 'how to build a strong comfy saddle from junk.' (http://tinyurl.com/hxcb3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ntappin's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10800 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/54556 |
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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. -- domesticated ape ------------------------------------------------------------------------ domesticated ape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8599 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/54556 |
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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. -- cathwood Cathy http://www.chuckingandtwirling.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cathwood's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9425 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/54556 |
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