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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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