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Side hustle is an additional job that students apply to cover expenses and earn pocket money, especially during their student years. These jobs are usually part-time, temporary and may not be related to vocational training. In this article, we will talk about adding your side hustles to your resume or CV. Side hustle may have advantages as well as disadvantages for resumes. Let’s see the some issues that need attention.

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Should Side Hustle Be Added on Resumes?

Many 20-somethings are adding a side hustle to help pay for loan payments, rent, and other expenses as the cost of life and higher education rises. The majority of people, however, are unaware that you can include your side job on your resume.

You deserve more than just the extra money if you’re investing your time, effort, and abilities to your full-time job and your side hustle. Not every side job should be listed on your CV. However, many of them use real talents and data that you can use to beef up your CV and demonstrate your awesomeness.By properly mentioning side and part-time jobs on your resume, they’ll become a strong section of your resume that showcases even more of what you have to offer.

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What Should Side Hustle Include?

The side hustles you will add to your resume must be related to your skills, even if they are unrelated to your profession. For example, tutoring drawing software as a side job for architects is more advantageous than being a waitress. Although both may seem like an “extra” for school and professional life, teaching drawing software proves how expert you are in this field. On the one hand, it shows that you have the diligence to make use of your spare time. However, resumes that includes some temporary jobs as side hustles that can be proved a “time-wasting” experience for employers.

If you have side hustlers that you spend more quality time with, where you can manage time and money, related to arts or software, and contain a foreign language, you need to add them to your resume. Resumes with additional jobs that you have done, especially with organizational skills and leadership qualities, will be positive for your own vision.

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Elif Ayse Sen

architect, writer

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