They really go the extra mile.
Athletes seeking corporate roles prominently adorn their resumes with marathons and other fitness accomplishments.
Brad Thomas, a New York City-based recruiter, said: told the Wall Street Journal It's a legitimate trend in the recruiting industry for applicants to push their personal records.
He recalled one engineer who thought they would have a hard time getting into the role for reasons beyond the required skill set. Instead, candidates thought they could get the job by running 15 marathons, among other events. They also boasted that they had secured a sportswear sponsorship.
But Elliott Kaplan, a Philadelphia-based career coach, warns that the wrong context can send applicants into the early shower.
“If you're applying for a job at Equinox, that's a different story, of course, but if you're just applying for a regular job, what are you trying to say with that?” he told WSJ. told. Thomas added that it could come across as a not-so-classy boast.
“And if I'm a sedentary type of person, it might turn me off.”
In any case, it appears that many applicants are catching on to this trend.
Jaclyn Amaro, 36, a part-time public relations professional in New Jersey, factored in her six marathons and other fitness accomplishments when applying for her current job.
“I want to show a little bit of my personality and personality and show that I'm hard-working and ambitious,” she told the magazine. “I put this in as a way to show that I'm passionate and working toward something.”
Jacob Travis, a 29-year-old physical therapist in Nashville, popularized this argument a few weeks ago.
He posted a video defending his practice while running.
“You'll learn more about me from the fact that I trained and ran a marathon than you will from the fact that I was secretary of my fraternity during my senior year of college.” Travis said to the camera..
“If you watch “The Marathon Runner,'' any employer can tell right away that this guy is an idiot. But he's a determined idiot, and I want him on my team. ”
Some executives, like John Major, a vice president at Norgay Partners, also believe there is some basis for the “new wave” trend.
“It shows you have the ability to be intrinsically motivated to do something you're not told to do.”
However, he added that the scheme mainly applies to lower-level applicants rather than senior positions.
But not all corporate athletes are sprinting to spend time on their resumes.
Chicago marathon runner Camille Fajardo, 32, a tax consultant, called her amazing feat “a very private and personal accomplishment.”
Additionally, she worries that downplaying the achievements of the movement will only foster a culture of overachievement and place unreasonable expectations on workers.
