I'm fresh out of college. I don't have much to fill up my resume with, so I wanted to put my study abroad program in there. It was just over the summer. I didn't do much, obviously, because it was two months.
Where does study abroad go? Education section? Extracurriculars?
>>976715
did you actually do anything interesting there?
I did some pretty amazing shit in my year abroad that knocks employers off their feet every time, and I put that under experience.
if you just went to a country and sat in lectures you didn't understand and got drunk then maybe you shouldn't put that in there.
>>976720
Elaborate. I want to know what amazing, earth shattering extra curriculars you were a part of.
>>976729
not really, because if you dug around you could probably identify me. and I'm an upstanding sort of person that doesn't masturbate to asian cartoons.
>>976744
Why would someone go on the internet and just lie?
>>976720
Yeah, sort of. I made a video diary that won a contest and they put it on my uni's study abroad site. I also taught kids English for a week in Tokyo, but that was literally it.
Other really small things I did were, I was a "group leader", which meant nothing beyond being given a cellphone and being my apartment block's emergency contact. I also helped plan an activity night during one of the program field trips. This is REALLY reaching, though.
>>976771
:|
unless you want to get into journalism, I don't really see how that's relevant to your job.
don't put irrelevant things in your resume.
>>976785
I ended up designing and coordinating the implementation, testing and deployment of a thing that hadn't existed up until that point and opened new frontiers.
>>976776
Yes, but like I said in the OP, I don't have much to fill up my resume with. Everything must go there
>>976792
Ok that's really broad... So how did this happen? Did you just see something that was in dire need of improvement or were you helped along by a professor or was it part of some kind of university competition?
>>976807
professor saw my previous work/academic performance and asked me if I wanted to do something challenging and presented me with the problem. then I went there and did it.
>>976814
That's cool. I guess you didn't lower your course load for doing the project. Was it very time intensive and stressful? I imagine doing something like that on top of learning a new language is not really possible without taking less courses, so you probably knew the language of your host country pretty well.
>>976828
>Was it very time intensive and stressful?
yes.
