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Originally Posted by modorney
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My college era was a great time for Greeks, and, even though Greeklife has risen and fallen a few times in the intervening years, I was usually competing with those about my age. Many times, my fraternity experience was brought up, particularly with respect to managing a small group of people.
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The second sentence quoted here is very interesting (I left the first one for context).
In my work experience, I can't think of a single conversation about managing groups of people and Greek experience in college. I think that the topic of being Greek was brought up a few times during idle conversation over the years, but none of it was in relation to anything related to skills or experience, or anything work-related.
I imagine that in other parts of the country, being Greek might come up more frequently during general conversation, but as I stated earlier, being Greek doesn't guarantee you a job over someone else *simply* because of affiliation. It might get your resume to the top of the "look" pile, but that's about it.
Has anyone had "many" or some work experiences where you were given favor (as in actually being hired for a particular job) simply because you were Greek? How about due to your specific affiliation?
Caveat - we all know that membership has its privileges. I am not talking about personal favors or gratis services.