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Re:Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometime... by vultour on Sunday August 18, 2019 @11:25AM (#20730734)
Avoiding CVs like these is a culmination of multiple factors, having a line that says "I like fishing, tea, and woodworking" can be completely acceptable. Packing it with obnoxious words like "afficionado" is a red flag to me.

I do wonder how putting your interests in the CV makes the company care? Where I work there is plenty of care regardless if you put it on your CV or not.

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Re:Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometime... by mattkrause on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:08PM (#20731029)
Woodworking might give you a (tiny) edge if the job is somehow mechanically-oriented, or maybe fishing signals an interest in the outdoors.

However, I’ve been told that it’s most useful as hook so that interviewers have something to remember beyond “dev from good school” or “consultant living in NYC”, which might describe a huge fraction of the candidate pool.

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Re:Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometime... by bboygravity on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:15PM (#20731475)
This makes sense.

Another use I've heard mention is that being into team sports could signal that you're trained at communicating and "working" in a team.

Not sure I buy that, but yeah that's what they taught us at school about building a resume.

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Re:Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometime... by WalterBright on Sunday August 18, 2019 @09:01PM (#20734060)
> Packing it with obnoxious words like "afficionado" is a red flag to me.

I'm not so sure about that. I like using unusual words because it adds a bit of color. The words should still be natural, though, not like you were trying too hard.

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