I'm assuming a line like "played WR for the University of Alabama" would be great to have on a resume

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Dec 1, 2021
1:55:30pm

Odysseus Head Gamemaker

I'm assuming a line like "played WR for the University of Alabama" would be great to have on a resume

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I know CBers get overly-excited about Stanford degrees, but if a former 5-star recruit applies to work for me I'm going

Odysseus Head Gamemaker

12/1/21 1:51pm

Do people put that on their resume?

Eddie

12/1/21 1:53pm

I do

Sea Chicken

12/1/21 1:54pm

I'm assuming a line like "played WR for the University of Alabama" would be great to have on a resume

Odysseus

12/1/21 1:55pm

It would if the person making hiring decisions likes football and Alabama.

Eddie

12/1/21 2:00pm

I had a communications class with a star athlete at BYU

Schultz is back

12/1/21 2:09pm

Those seem like much more relevant skills, depending on the where it's going.

Eddie

12/1/21 2:19pm

I got an interview because of a line on my resume “won 17 intramural championships in college”

FromCAtoUT

12/1/21 1:59pm

Very nice. Did he ask you why you were in college for 17 years? 😉

Eddie

12/1/21 2:03pm

The rest precludes you, but the headline made me think I found Jarom Jordan

SoBlueitHurts

12/1/21 4:45pm

People love to hire ex-jocks.

HiLife

12/1/21 2:04pm

several studies have shown the best predictor for success as an orthopedic

Osteotome

12/1/21 2:19pm

No offense, but the Stanford degree isn’t to impress middle management hiring

NOCAL_YFAN

12/1/21 2:19pm

I don't think the analysis is anywhere close to the same between 5-star athlete and pencil-necked math club president

Odysseus

12/1/21 2:32pm

And the networking it provides can be key as well

Tricky

12/1/21 2:34pm

Stanford undergrad is mostly taught by Grad/PhD candidate students.

Mayor of Cougartown

12/1/21 2:33pm

I'm not sure it's a little known fact - I think it's pretty well known that...

Eddie

12/1/21 2:44pm

suppose that's true that Despite the quality not being that great the perceived

Mayor of Cougartown

12/1/21 2:59pm

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