Saturday, November 16, 2019

I work for a boy band fan site

I work for a boy band fan site I work for a boy band fan site A reader writes: I have a question regarding job or volunteer experience that could be considered sort of embarrassing. I recently took over as a site administrator (or as the site wants to call me webmistress but that seems awkward and dominatrix-y to me) of a fan site for a well-known 90s boy band. It was never something I planned to do, but sort of fell into my lap as the original site creator was retiring and wanted someone who knew the back end of the website to take over. I was hesitant to take on another volunteer project, but in the end decided to step in when I realized that it could only help build my skills as a social media marketer and content creator. My question is whether or not its appropriate to put this kind of experience on my resume. Obviously, Im not embarrassed to like the group how could I be if I curate news about them every day but its not something that has ever come up in a professional setting before, and I dont know how potential employers might respond. On the one hand, I feel like Im already working against the entitled young person label, and drawing attention to the fact that I have a slight obsession with a boy band from the 90s might reinforce the young and inexperienced stereotype. On the other, Im adding quantifiable achievements to my resume if I can announce that Ive increased unique page views by 15% in a 2-month period or Ive successfully run an internet event celebrating an anniversary for the group that resulted in a 50% increase in video views, 12% increase in Facebook followers and 300% increase in interaction. What are your thoughts? Put it on there. First, as you point out, it gives you quantifiable achievements, and thats great. Achievements are achievements, and no amount of soulful crooning or heavily choreographed  dance moves can take away from that. Second, its going to jump out to lots of people simply because of its novelty value and theyre going to ask you about it. As long as you have a sense of humor about it, this will be a good thing. Third, please immediately  tell us who it is. You can read an update to this post  here.

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