Interests or Languages? Forum

[purplegoldtornado]

I have some unique interests and I also know a foreign language. However, I only really have room for one in my resume. Any suggestions as to which one I should use?

[GoneSouth]

I think interests are better to list. They almost always provide subjects for conversation during the interview. Foreign language skills are almost never going to be needed during a clerkship, and unless it’s a really unique language, they’re probably not going to come up in the interview either.

[Anonymous User]

I think interests are better to list. They almost always provide subjects for conversation during the interview. Foreign language skills are almost never going to be needed during a clerkship, and unless it’s a really unique language, they’re probably not going to come up in the interview either.

Agreed. You could smuggle in a unique language into an interest anyway (e.g. "Norwegian-language literature" or something)

[jackshunger]

I think interests are better to list. They almost always provide subjects for conversation during the interview. Foreign language skills are almost never going to be needed during a clerkship, and unless it’s a really unique language, they’re probably not going to come up in the interview either.

Agreed. You could smuggle in a unique language into an interest anyway (e.g. "Norwegian-language literature" or something)

I'd probably be interested in why Pete Buttigieg had abandoned his post to apply for a clerkship under a pen name.

[Reese1]

I think interests are better to list. They almost always provide subjects for conversation during the interview. Foreign language skills are almost never going to be needed during a clerkship, and unless it’s a really unique language, they’re probably not going to come up in the interview either.

Agreed. You could smuggle in a unique language into an interest anyway (e.g. "Norwegian-language literature" or something)

I'd probably be interested in why Pete Buttigieg had abandoned his post to apply for a clerkship under a pen name.

I chuckled

[mjb447]

Yeah, I'd probably go with whichever will give you more to build on if an interviewer says, "so, I see xyz on your resume. Tell me about that." For most people, that'll be a (good) interests section.