Resume

[curlingrocks]

I'm updating my professional resume and thinking about adding a section about officiating. What other things can/should be included?

• Work in high pressure situations making quick, decisive, and accurate decisions and while resolving conflict
• Communicate effectively with coaches, players, officials, and game day personnel to ensure success
• Maintain a demanding schedule with paperwork, travel, and availability while successfully balancing a full time job
• Enforce rules, policies, procedures, and protocols in accordance to NCAA or NFHS rules
• Lead crewmembers in pregame and postgame meetings and evaluations

Should I put that I worked the 2013 4th grade CYO Championship game on there?

[curlingrocks]

I'm asking a serious question, but thanks....

Originally Posted by curlingrocks

I'm asking a serious question, but thanks....

You're welcome?

[Rich]

Forgive him. He's our resident (redacted ).

Originally Posted by Rich

Forgive him. He's our resident (redacted ).

I'd actually like to hear if anyone has put that stuff on their resume. I can see the benefits, especially if applying for something in the sports field but perhaps that is something better left off and perhaps brought up during the meeting. There are a lot of people out there who just don't get what we do (pretty much everyone except other officials) so I can see it not helping.

[Rich]

I would not put anything on a resume that would make a potential employer think I'm not focused on my job. Cause few do get it.

[JRutledge]

I always put my officiating business on my resume'. I get money and the people I deal with often add to my interest to companies. I get often interview requests often because this stuff is on my resume'. It is not most consistent job that I have done for the last 20 years. It is usually the thing they bring up or talk about anyway and someone played or went to a local high school so they ask me questions based off of that. Never a distraction or they would not give me the interview. Then again I am in sales and changed careers and got many offers because of my officiating background.

Peace

[jpgc99]

Originally Posted by Rich

I would not put anything on a resume that would make a potential employer think I'm not focused on my job. Cause few do get it.

If I was unemployed and desperately seeking a job, I agree with this position.


However, if you currently have a job and are simply looking for a better job, I would include one line about officiating. I put it under 'Hobbies' and simply list "Collegiate & High School Basketball Official (with years worked)"

From experience, this is often something that is brought up in the interview, with most people genuinely interested in it. I would emphasize that work is the priority and in no way will officiating get in the way of my work. In fact, I say it helps me because it is a release from work stresses and helps me come back to the office the next stay refreshed and re-charged.

I also believe it is important to establish early on that I do officiate, because I may request PTO on short notice to travel to a game. I don't mention this in the interview, but I've laid the ground work...

[JRutledge]

If I am filing taxes on my income and filing other paperwork that says I am an official, there is no way in "heck" I am putting it in a hobby line (that no one cares about anyway). I am usually turning down positions and my officiating is front and center on my resume'. Then again most of the jobs I have had or get are in sales or management and they want to know that you can deal with conflict, deal with people, run a business or department and can think on your feet. And I have not been unemployed at any one time before I left college because of officiating.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

... no way in "heck" I am putting it in a hobby line

Avocation ???

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Avocation ???

Nope.

Peace

[jpgc99]

Not sure why you are so adamant about it not going in a hobby line. The amount of money I make officiating vs my career absolutely classifies officiating as a hobby, for me.

I'm in a business leadership role in a corporate office. There is no benefit to including my officiating as part of my "work experience" because it is irrelevant. Managing situations on a basketball floor is vastly different than building corporate teams and making business decisions.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by jpgc99

Not sure why you are so adamant about it not going in a hobby line. The amount of money I make officiating vs my career absolutely classifies officiating as a hobby, for me.

I'm in a business leadership role in a corporate office. There is no benefit to including my officiating as part of my "work experience" because it is irrelevant. Managing situations on a basketball floor is vastly different than building corporate teams and making business decisions.

I would not say I am adamant, but I am in business as well and I want to know the people I might hire are doing something that has a skill that I can use to my advantage. I know that many of us my be older and it might have been a long time for use to work at a fast food joint or some kind of restaurant or service job that paid us at best minimum wage. If we would have only had job experience at that time of our life, why would you not include on your resume' something that most people cannot do and would not admittedly have the balls to do in the first place? Maybe if you are not an accomplished official I could see not even including it. But if I was an NCAA official or someone that has worked high level varsity ball, why would I not include it?

I guess it depends on what kind of job you want too. Since I have made more money at officiating than I did any other "extra" job I think it should be included and often was the bridge between one job to another.

And what I have noticed in the past year as I went on to get a professional license in a field, the officiating is what the interviewer wanted to talk about and talk about mostly even with similar background in another field. I have actually turned down more jobs than being rejected and I attribute that to my background in officiating. After all what is an interview? It is selling yourself.

I guess I would rather talk to someone that had an unusual and interesting position over someone that was a delivery boy for Domino's Pizza.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Avocation ???

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Nope.

Avocation: Noun:
1. a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment
2. something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, especially for pleasure;
3. an activity that you pursue when you're not at work