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Personal interests are optional activities, memberships and pursuits that you have adopted on your own. These are often communicated to potential schools and employers to demonstrate that you are a well-rounded person who goes far beyond the minimum expectations in life. Personal interests can also communicate character, ambitions, commitment, knowledge, talents, experience, resilience and social status. The following are illustrative examples of personal interests.
Animals | Animation | Aquariums | Archery | Architecture | Art | Artificial Intelligence | Astronomy | Baking | Beekeeping | Biology | Bodybuilding / Weight Lifting | Botany | Boxing | Business | Calligraphy | Camping | Canoeing | Carpentry | Cheerleading | Chess | Climbing | Coaching | Coding | Comic Books / Manga | Computing | Concerts | Cooking / Culinary Arts | Cosplay | Crafts | Cultural Activities | Cycling | Dance | Debate | Design | Diving | Diy | Documentaries | Drawing | Electronics | Engineering | Entrepreneurship | Environmental Action | Exercise | Farming | Fashion | Festivals | Film | Filmmaking | Fishing | Fundraising | Game Mods | Gardening | Geocaching | Go | Golf | Gymnastics | Hiking | History | Horseback Riding | Iconography | Improv | Information Security | Interior Design | Investing | Journaling | Journalism | Kayaking | Kite Flying | Languages | Live Action Role-playing | Low Technology | Maintenance & Repair | Martial Arts | Media Production | Museums | Music | Music Performance / Production | Musical Instruments | Nail Art | Orienteering | Origami | Painting | Performance Art | Photography | Poker | Political Participation | Pool | Public Speaking | Reading | Reuse | Robotics | Running | Sailing | Science | Simple Living / Minimalism | Skateboarding | Skating | Skiing / Snowboarding | Small Business | Snorkeling | Songwriting | Surfing / Bodyboarding | Swimming | Table Tennis | Team Sports | Technology | Tennis | Theatre | Track & Field | Travel | Tutoring | User Experience | Video Games | Visual Communication & Design | Volunteering | Windsurfing / Kitesurfing | Woodworking | Wrestling | Writing |
Personal interests can include hobbies, leisure activities, arts, sports, community activities, volunteer positions, cultural activities, traditional practices, recreation, extracurricular activities, research topics, self-learning and classes that you have taken.
Generally speaking, active interests that involve other people tend to be more impressive on a resume, application or in an interview than interests that appear passive or isolated. For example, watching television or collecting stamps on your own may be viewed as passive and isolated.
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