Do you list hobbies on your resume? If so, what activities do you put?

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I don't as I feel it adds a new risk factor during the recruiting process. People may associate different personalities with different hobbies and those may not coincide with their culture or their ideal candidate.

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I have had the same thought… I used to have baking / painting on my resume and I took them off bc they were “too feminine”

I put hiking, photography, and crossword puzzles

No.

Not unless it’s applicable, such as community outreach, activism, or volunteering. Even then, it depends on the position you’re applying for.

Choose hobbies that subtly (or overtly!) relate to the job. Volunteering at a financial literacy NGO? Boom, social responsibility and communication skills highlighted. Marathon runner? Discipline and goal setting prowess on display.

It depends on the culture of your industry. Some hobbies are obviously not appropriate to list on a resume but some have positive associations - such as an athletic pursuit (pretty much every executive interview mentions working out in the morning, so athletic training is correlated with leadership). I also list volunteer positions as that is often aligned with the company’s values. I wouldn’t list a hobby that will stereotype you negatively - baking and knitting, for example, are perfectly good hobbies to have but it could conjure up imagines of a homemaker, which is not what you want to emphasize in a corporate interview, so I’d leave it off the resume.

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