President? Me?

[ailiathena]

My department has a grad student organization and someone was kind enough to nominate me to be president of it. While I am flattered at the vote of confidence, I don't necessarily think it would be a great time investment. At the moment, what I really want to know is, is there any way that having something like that on my CV would actually make any

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[adfamiliares]

On your CV, it'll do nothing, at least in applications for academic jobs. If it's going to come into play at all, it'll be in your letters. Could you or your recommenders spin this experience as pertaining to your research interests or professorial skills? (My recommendations apparently featured a memorable passage about how my Scottish Country dance teaching was totally relevant to teaching Latin; I know, because practically everyone who's ever interviewed me has brought it up.)

Is this something you have any interest in doing?

[loquaxcaesar]

Would it not be useful as a demonstration of service? Or go-get-'em-ness, at the very least?

[ailiathena]

I just wonder if potential employers would care about service to academia ... or go-get-'em-ness in this arena, for that matter.

[ailiathena]

So it sounds like you're saying that if I wanted to do this, spinning it would be a possibility, but that I probably shouldn't do it for the purposes of looking good to employers, right?

I don't know if I want to do it. On the one hand, part of me is like, "I want to be president! That means they LIKE me!" But then the other part thinks, "what would I actually do that's useful? Nothing, probably." Which means investing my time in largely useless interactions, which I feel like is not a great use of my energy.

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[anonymous]

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