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Old Thu Jul 30, 2015, 12:10pm
Welpe Welpe is offline
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When I was first starting out in my professional career being able to point to my officiating experience was a positive thing. Now I don't honestly have the room for it on a resume and I have enough professional experience that I don't need it.

I used to maintain a list of my officiating achievements on my LinkedIn page until I had a couple of people that I consider mentors tell me I might want to consider taking them off because "nobody cares". Outside of a hiring manager that might be an official also, I think that is generally true. I will probably add officiating back as an activity on LinkedIn.

I don't think there's anything wrong with maintaining officiating on a resume if it does truly help you. It doesn't for me anymore so I don't.

Curling, back to your original question, I like what you have there but I'd personally not include this line:

"Maintain a demanding schedule with paperwork, travel, and availability while successfully balancing a full time job"

Like others have said, this would lead me to wonder if what you doing is so intensive that it detracts from your work. Now being an official, I know that's not necessarily true but I think it hurts more than it helps.
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