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Understand a candidate in perspective of personality traits and interests.
it helps to know an applicant personality
You showcase your "character" in hobbies section and this tell the employers about your personality.
It "Supports your work Experience' if your hobbies are relevant to your experience it can greatly help you to be shortlisted.
"What Else you can do" Some people are very intelligent in specific job but are not flexible with extra duties......thus, your hobbies determine how can you take up other challenges along with your routine job.
So that HR manager can have complete picture of who you are when you are not at work. For example, if you put in your hobbies list "outdoor sports, gym and hiking" it might be a good hint that your shape is good and you are healthy, you will be productive for long time etc. On the other hand, pay attention to type of job that you apply for. If job is desk-bound with no real interaction with people, try not to put many adventurous hobbies such as skydiving, mountain climbing, camping... because it will look like you will be bored at that kind of job. Better go with reading, internet surfing, movies...
It's an important matter to know all aspects of the employee's character to get the utmost benefit from his ability and be able to recognize his skills . From the bobbies you can guess what 's this person like ? What's his thoughts and what's his attitude .
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I think hobbies reflect your character, area of interest and voluntary experiences.
For example a sporty person have a nature of team player, working under pressure with deadlines, ability to learn quickly, accepting failure and learning from them and leadership quality.
irstly, don’t title that section “hobbies”. Give it a broader name like “additional information” which will give you a broader range of subjects to write about. Then, start including anything which makes you interesting. Interviewers use this section of your CV to find out a bit more about you as a person, so it can help to give them a rounded picture of you. This is particularly true if you don’t have much work experience – if they can’t ask you about your career history, then your education and personal interests are going to feature much more heavily during the interview process. Divide your interests into sections, so sport, music, literature, art, charity, cookery, travel etc. Under each section write something about that interest. Below I’ve given you a few examples:
Sports: Play five-a-side football for the local pub team. Manage children’s under8 team for local primary school.
Societies & clubs : Member of my university Afro-Caribbean society. Member of Little Rock amateur dramatic club.
Music: Play bass guitar in prog-rock band. Particularly keen on classical music, especially Handel.
Literature: Keen reader of historical fiction. Favourite author is Alison Weir.
Charity: Volunteer for the local women’s refuge. Walked300 miles across the Namibian dessert to raise £3,000 for a children’s charity.
Travel: Travelled extensively and have visited places which include Turkey, America, Hong Kong, Australia, China, France, Germany, South Africa.
Cookery: Currently taking an evening Thai cookery course.
Crafts: I have recently completed a glass blowing course.
By fleshing out the information on each section, it gives the interviewer the opportunity to ask you about your interests in more detail. Most employers are particularly keen on activities which show you work well in a team – so playing team sports or being part of a band, orchestra or choir are always good examples of this. Steer clear of using “socialising” as a hobby – it suggests you spend a lot of time in the pub!
You should also use this section to list any further accomplishments, like additional training, any work you may have published and any posts you hold outside of work. Like this:
Training: Completed the PRCA Digital PR course, July2012. First aider qualified.
Published Work: Author of “How to get a PR job”, published January2011
Posts held: Governor of Little Stippleton High School. Trustee of Rocking Aid charity. At University I was treasurer of the S
