Shooting as sport/hobby on CV?

chem

Just wondering if people write in there CV that they are a licenced gun owner and put it in there sports/hobbies section?

Just with this PC world going more and more PC do people think it might be a door closer for a job?

Has anyone ever been interviewed for a job where it was brought up?

bitemybanger

I always mention it and say its a hobby and i compete in clay pigeon and target comps but never mention that i kill poor defencless animals.

cavan shooter

Yes I do however at this stage in my life it's me checking the cv's

IRLConor

It's on mine (in a "here's a college sports club I help(ed) run" kinda way). No-one has ever brought it up. Pretty much everyone I've worked with has known that I shoot. I think turning up to work in a DURC hoodie is a dead giveaway.

When reading other CVs I've never seen it though, even when hiring people in the states.

chem

bitemybanger wrote: »

I always mention it and say its a hobby and i compete in clay pigeon and target comps but never mention that i kill poor defencless animals.

Was thinking the same! Holes in paper good, holes in rabbits bad.;)

chem

IRLConor wrote: »

Pretty much everyone I've worked with has known that I shoot.

Id be the same IRL. Very hard to keep the passion bottled up inside and I have a strange habbit of trying to introduce people to shooting:D

Just feel its doing my bit to enlighten people that all guns are not bad.

Just asked the question as it looks like im for the chop:( Will have to start re-writting the old CV. On a brighter note have got in touch with a company who do fireworks displays and they are giving me a try out next week:D

So now my CV will have firearms and explosives as hobbies:eek:;)

Grizzly 45

So now my CV will have firearms and explosives as hobbies:eek:;)

Y
You are hired if I get a position vacant...:D:D:D

I always put it down on mine,but as CS said,nowadays I read the CVs.
It's NOTHING to be ashamed of or should be a driscriminatory factor against you.Considering all the weird and wonderful stuff people have in their CVs nowadays in belifs,sexual preferances etc.At least I would know that you wouldnt have a criminal record or are likely to be dodgey and risk losing your liscense.;):D

the_syco

Here's one way of looking at it: what's the chances of coming across a pacifist in the job you're looking at? Some jobs, it'll be good, some jobs, it may be bad.

IRLConor

chem wrote: »

Id be the same IRL. Very hard to keep the passion bottled up inside and I have a strange habbit of trying to introduce people to shooting:D

In my case it was just as much about trying to keep warm in a cold machine room with a toasty DURC hoodie.

But yeah, I do end up talking about shooting with people I work with. Partly because it would be hard to explain what I get up to outside of work without mentioning it but also because I figure I'm doing my bit to portray the human side of shooting. Too many people think they don't know someone who shoots and it's much easier to agree with calls for firearms to be banned if you don't know anyone who'd be affected.

So far, it has all gone well. TBH, I've come across more antipathy recruiting people for DURC on Front Square in Trinity during Fresher's Week.

IRLConor

the_syco wrote: »

Here's one way of looking at it: what's the chances of coming across a pacifist in the job you're looking at? Some jobs, it'll be good, some jobs, it may be bad.

And even then being a pacifist is no guarantee that you'll be anti-gun. I know at least one committed pacifist who shoots at the highest level in NTSA competitions.

the_syco

IRLConor wrote: »

And even then being a pacifist is no guarantee that you'll be anti-gun. I know at least one committed pacifist who shoots at the highest level in NTSA competitions.

:eek: Learn something new everyday.

IRLConor

the_syco wrote: »

:eek: Learn something new everyday.

He's vegetarian too.

ivanthehunter

I wouldn't think that its too clever to place your address in conjunction with your interest in firearms on any single piece of paper, let alone on any piece of paper that is posted to many unknown people. Lets face it, CV's can end up in all sorts of places..

Did anyone ever hear of identity theft?

bogteal

We get students every year on work experience girls and boys 20+ years and i tell them all i shoot and what and every thing is grand till i get to the deer then its OMB, but i tell you after a week or two and they get the taste of free Bambi burgers, they go back to college with a whole different outlook on hunting and shooting. I have always put it on my CV.

cavan shooter

Everyone I work with and have a lot of dealings with through work know how passionate i am about my sport. 4 guys I work with shoot as well, everytime we are sitting at the same table for lunch it becomes the topic of conversation.

IRLConor

ivanthehunter wrote: »

I wouldn't think that its too clever to place your address in conjunction with your interest in firearms on any single piece of paper, let alone on any piece of paper that is posted to many unknown people. Lets face it, CV's can end up in all sorts of places..

Did anyone ever hear of identity theft?

My address isn't on my CV. No prospective employer needs to know where I live.

The only "identity theft" information on my CV is my name, my phone number and my e-mail address.

EDIT (To bring a little topic into the post): Shooting + address on a CV does not necessarily mean that there's a firearm there.

chem

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Considering all the weird and wonderful stuff people have in their CVs nowadays in belifs,sexual preferances etc.

Cheers Grizzly:D I might just leave out the part of loving the smell of rubber and gun oil on my CV :D:D

Sparks

It's on mine (I figure, there's no way I could ever hide it, so just be up-front with it). It's come up in interviews and on the job after being hired. I've met several shooters because of it ("You shoot as well? I do a bit of the oul' foxing every so often for the family farm!", that sort of thing - shooters love to chat to one another). I've never had it count against me. In fact, the websites and stuff I've done for various clubs have been shown off in one or two interviews as portfolio stuff and have been a factor in me getting jobs, and in one case, they gave me the use of a spare office during lunchtime to dry-fire in for training.

It may just be that the IT industry is used to... eccentric personalities

chem

Sparks wrote: »

It may just be that the IT industry is used to... eccentric personalities

Yep sparks know the feeling. Im a chemist. We come in two forms. 70's Open university TV types or off the wall nutty professor types. At which point we ask who left the top off the ether bottle:D

IDon'tKnow!

I don't have shooting on my CV and won't be putting it on it.

Most people outside of shooting don't have any understanding of firearms. When I tell people I like to shoot and have my own guns, they give you that deer in the headlights look, then say something like "are you crazy what do you want to have a gun in your house for".

A lot of what people think about guns is not helped by what is put in the media about firearms. Hopefully shooting might get some good coverage when the Olympic Games starts. [FONT=&quot][/FONT]

It wasn't me!

I've put it down when applying for jobs in leisure centres which would have clay pigeon shooting and archery as activities, as it would show that I'm somewhat au fait with range safety procedures, safe firearms handling and that I've been signed off as safe and responsible by the local super. Have put it down in other CV's as a hobby and interest for two reasons, the first and most important being, it catches eyes. If someone in HR is trawling through umpteen million CV's looking for a candidate, and all are saying the same damn thing, anything that's shocking or different on mine could be a factor in mine making it as far as a second glance. This has little to do with shooting itself, just makes a character impression (make of that what you will; never got those jobs ). However, I also put it down as a hobby because it's not something I like to hide away. When someone asks me what I do for fun, as happens when you meet new people, I mention it in the same breath as stuff like reading, playing guitar and driving, because it makes people realise normal people, not just lunatics with no social skills and squinty eyes, like guns and shooting, and because it's fun to discuss, and you almost always find out that someone else connected to them shoots, and there's a good chat to be had out of it. In all those encounters where it's been mentioned, I've only had one or two negative "wha? shootin'? Ya fookin weirdo!" responses, and to be honest, I couldn't have cared less, and wasn't talking to that person anyway (punter on the sideline). In fact, in my last job the guy I was working the floor with asked me on mondays whether I'd been out at the weekend and how I got on, which was nice. Turned out his brother did a bit of fox-shooting and he'd been out with him once or twice, was interested.

J.R.

cavan shooter wrote: »

Yes I do however at this stage in my life it's me checking the cv's

same here!

cavan shooter

IDon'tKnow! wrote: »

I don't have shooting on my CV and won't be putting it on it.

Most people outside of shooting don't have any understanding of firearms. When I tell people I like to shoot and have my own guns, they give you that deer in the headlights look, then say something like "are you crazy what do you want to have a gun in your house for".

A lot of what people think about guns is not helped by what is put in the media about firearms. Hopefully shooting might get some good coverage when the Olympic Games starts. [FONT=&quot][/FONT]

I depends on how you put it on the cv eg;
Hobbies include:Target shooting, Clay Pigeon shooting and Working springer spaniels. vs Shooting and hunting:eek:
include your memberships of clubs and particulalry if you are a committee member etc any competions you won or even that you tried out for the Club team or whatever. That all stands to you and I would not leave it out.

It also could open a topic of conversation that you know alot about, and you can talk about. Interviews are all about selling yourself

HR recruitment lecture over

Grizzly 45

chem wrote: »

Cheers Grizzly:D I might just leave out the part of loving the smell of rubber and gun oil on my CV :D:D

Riiiiiigggghhhhhttttt Chem! You Reallly dont have to go into THAT sort of detail of your private life on your CV!!!!:D:D:D:D

Traumadoc

I put down that I was a member of the college gun club, but would not put down that I was a licenced gun owner.
Now I check about 250 CVs every 6 months(PITA), I have yet to find one with shooting as a sport mentioned. ( I would look on it very favourably if they did)

pullandbang

Traumadoc wrote: »

Now I check about 250 CVs every 6 months(PITA), I have yet to find one with shooting as a sport mentioned. ( I would look on it very favourably if they did)

Now that's interesting. I too check a few CV's (not many lately)
and I too would look favourably on one that mentioned shooting.

Then I got thinking.....I'd probably look unfavourably on one that mentioned being a member of PETA, or Animal Rights groups, or Save the Whale. Don't think I'd fancy hiring someone from that lot and then have to listen to them every day!!

G17

Sparks wrote: »

It may just be that the IT industry is used to... eccentric personalities

Yep, my guns have featured in corporate skit movies, no one bats an eyelid when I have half a Glock on my desk practicing magazine changes and there is an actual, queue when I bring in the biathlon laser training rig!

Put it on the C.V. and if they bring it up, enthuse, demonstrate fervour and passion, spout safety and attention to detail, spring forth with pillar of the community type ramblings, just don't go all Tackleberry.

Sparks

Actually, that's a point - in IT and a few other fields, half the interview is trying to see if the applicant actually gets interested and into anything. Target shooting, archery, hill running, cliff diving, competitive chilli eating, doesn't matter much (well, so long as the chilli has no beans - we all have to work indoors after all).

Bananaman

I once had on my CV - back when Cha was running the country - when we used to have "hobbies and interests"

Seriously I had to explain this in an interview once - how it got there is another story.

"I enjoy Sports[Shows you how long ago that was] , Travel and Socialising. I have a Fondness for drink and have been known to slaughter a kebab on occasion."

B'Man

(I may have compromised my secret identity with this)

Vegeta

G17 wrote: »

just don't go all Tackleberry.

lol

just got an image of being in an interview and someone asking "So it says here you are into shooting and firearms?"

"yeah I love it, here I brought one along for show and tell"

I assume everyones face would look like this :eek:

kowloon

Widlife watching/long countryside walks are excellent alternatives, you don't need to mention what happens to the wildlife afterwards.