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Originally posted by Taualumna
Question: What should one do about volunteer work for an organization that some may view as being "snobby"? Same with political campaigns. For me, half of my "office experience" comes from political campaigns. Right now, the only campaign going on in Ontario is for a specific party, so people'll figure it out even if I remain discrete.
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Do not list volunteer work that has political leanings...it's just safer that way. The same goes for anything that will get people overly excited like pro-life, pro-choice, Greenpeace or PETA. As for leaving it off and it looking like 'you've never worked a day in your life', I personally think having volunteer experience on your resume is overrated, in terms of if it will really help you to get the job or not.
Lastly, I am not sure if you are referring to the Junior League as the organization that "some may view as snobby", since I know you are in JLT (and I was in JLC until I moved) but 99.9999999% of Canadians will not even know what Junior League is; they'll think it's Junior
Achievement or something to do with sports and kids, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I'm just saying...is all.