February 23, 2008

An Important Professional Question

At one point in your professional/academic career do you stop putting your high school accomplishments on your CV?

If I'm doing my MA, isn't it obvious that I completed high school, and probably with a good average? Do potential employers want to know that I won a $50 gift certificate to Curry's art supply store in OAC? That I was given a plaque for being a staff favourite, confirming my reputation for being a kiss-ass? That, if you can believe, I once had a vocal lead in a high school musical?

Is it time to scrap that section of my CV?

Posted by Karen

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Comments: 6 so far

February 23, 2008 2:39 PM

Ken said:

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Yes, take all of your high school stuff off of your CV. No one has cared about that stuff for a good long time.

February 23, 2008 5:11 PM

Ken Perchuk said:

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I think once you get a University degree you can take all that stuff of the ol resume.

February 23, 2008 7:02 PM

Doomed to be Fabulous said:

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Ditto. Stick to post-high school days -- it has been seven (?) years after all, and you're probably a completely different person now.

February 24, 2008 12:47 PM

Karen said:

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I just wanted to clarify that I have never put my high school musical experience on a resume. I only mentioned it for effect.

February 25, 2008 6:08 PM

Scott said:

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I want to know what musical it was.

February 25, 2008 6:15 PM

Karen said:

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Once Upon a Mattress. I played the Minstrel, which is a male part, but they made it asexual and cut out all the sexual tension with Lady Larkin. Actually, they cut all sexuality out of the play so we could perform for elementary schools.

Once Upon a Mattress without sexuality, you say? But what is the play about if the sex is removed?

Absolutely nothing.

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