While both Raymond and Rahim gained a lot of practical skills and
experience from their extracurricular activities, Raymond advises first year law students to focus on academics and only participate in one or two extracurricular activities until they settle into law school.
Not exact matches
They should provide students the opportunity to gain practical
experience via non-traditional
extracurricular activities like externships with start - up incubators and invite successful business leaders
from industries outside of law to be guest lecturers.
Now, if you only graduated
from college three weeks ago and have ZERO professional
experience, you may want to consider adding your
extracurricular activities to emphasize collaboration, leadership, and a focus within your desired work area.
You can take your example
from your work
experience, part - time jobs, a group project or coursework, travels on a gap year or a skills - related
extracurricular activity.
Transferable skills are the
experiences and skills you have developed over the years
from coursework,
extracurricular activities, internships, jobs and your total life
experiences.
Rather, incorporate more original examples
from your
extracurricular activities and work
experience, or when you took a risk and produced exceptional results to illustrate your skills and
experience.
You could draw on examples
from your degree, such as giving a group presentation;
from your work
experience, such as working together to meet an important deadline; and
from your
extracurricular activities, such as playing for a football team.
Keep in mind that skills may be developed
from everything
from work
experience to education and training, hobbies,
extracurricular activities, volunteer work and even self - study.
«Industry
experience certainly strengthens your CV but we are also keen to receive applications
from students who have developed relevant skills through other work
experience or
extracurricular activities,» says Chantelle.
Enterprise Rent - A-Car recruiters want applicants to the management TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year award «to tell us how you have gained skills and knowledge
from any work
experience, previous internships, volunteering,
extracurricular activities and university societies», so make sure that you write about the skills you developed through pursuing your achievement and the knowledge you picked up: this knowledge could be technical, about people or about yourself.
Other students can benefit
from including a «Leadership» section after their «Work
Experience» to highlight their involvement in leadership programs or volunteer work, or to mention any positions they held within
extracurricular activities.
Plenty of your high school
experiences,
from academic achievements to volunteer work to
extracurricular activities, offer opportunities to highlight the qualities you can bring to the workplace.
Recall
experiences that can be drawn upon
from your previous full - time and part - time teaching employment, volunteer work, professional encounters, university or academic encounters,
extracurricular activities, and life
experiences.
Supporting older youth involves many components, including the option to extend foster care or allow reentry into foster care, providing the most normal childhood
experience possible through
extracurricular activities, educational stability and opportunity, transitioning
from foster care to independent living and housing.