'T-shirt Chair' on Resume
 

How have you guys best presented being T-shirt Chair for your GLO on professional resumes? I am applying to law school want to include it to show active involvement in my sorority, but I have been told that it seems frivolous or even detrimental. Thanks!

Is this the only office you held in your sorority? It means you got the t-shirts for formals and stuff like that, right? Part of me thinks you could retitle it something like "Assistant Special Events Chair", but the problem is that if someone asked you what you did as ASE Chair, you'd say "I ordered the t-shirts" and you'd sound like an idiot. So, I'd leave it off.

For law school it really is frivolous. It might end up causing you some embarrassment. I'm with DBB. Leave it off.

I was thinking of retitling it "Apparel Chair" or "Campus Brand Manager" because the shirts essentially are marketing tools.

Brand Manager means something completely different in reality, so you're setting yourself up for underdelivering on that point. T-Shirt Chair is completely superficial, and not something worthy of being on a resume, sorry. Many chapters don't even have that as an office.

T-shirt chair is not active enough involvement in a sorority to mention a merit on your law school application. It is laughable. If you were treasurer, held another elected office or much more involved appointed position, or did something with more professional responsibility, fine. Otherwise, if that was the height of your sorority involvement, you should leave it out.

As a lawyer, if I ever saw an application that listed something like that I would LMAO and immediately reject. And I am a very pro-Greek person. But if that is your only position, I know that you didn't do much of anything and probably didn't get much (leadership and life skills- wise) out of your sorority membership.

Agree with kddani that I would not put it on the resume. If you're going to use another name for the position, you should be prepared to give an explanation that fits the title. Otherwise, the interviewer may just say "so, you were basically responsible for t-shirts?"

Sororities have a position that does nothing but order t-shirts? This whole "trophy for everyone" thing really has gone too far.

If you were PR chair (part of whose duties I'd think would be t-shirts, among other things) that would be fine, but if ALL you did was order t-shirts, skip it. Listing it would cause chuckles if you interviewing at Bath & Body Works, let alone on your law school resume.

Here's what the T-shirt chair does on one of our campuses (nearly 200 members):

* Works with various departments in chapter to determine needs for resale items (recruitment, social, PR, philanthropy, intermurals, etc.) for various events/needs
* Works with outside vendors to design and price items for chapter
* Manages ordering of items for chapter members (including working to hit order minimums, deadlines, and in cases where an item is "required", following up with members who have not placed orders in a timely manner)
* Works with financial VP to bill members for these resale items (sometimes nearly 200 individual billings for a particular order)
* Manages fulfillment of each order (checking in the inventory when received, matching up the bagged shirts by name/size, distributing them, ensuring that shinkage/theft of inventory does not occur)
* Manages inventory of items in the resale closet (all those t-shirts that never get paid for/picked up, overages, etc.) with sales of items to alumnae, new members, parents, etc.

At this particular chapter I've seen at least 12 resale items come through between August and October already... that's 1-2 per week. Definitely not a "fluff" position despite the title of "T-Shirt Chair"!

In a large chapter, it can be a fair amount of work, as JeniDallas posts. However, in my chapter, it was usually held by someone who wanted to prove herself with a small office before going on to something bigger.

How does this grab you? Assistant to the FVP for fulfillment and collections.

Based on the description, it seems like a substantial position with an extremely bad title. If I were you, I'd talk to your sisters about getting the title changed, not just for your own sake, but just also for the self-esteem of those who would hold the position in the future.

Suggestions: "Procurement Chair", "Inventory Chair", "Logistics Chair", "Assistant ..."

We call ours the "Spirit and Special Orders Chair." It sounds a little more involved.

This is like trying to fluff up janitorial positions by calling them sanitation engineers.