Saying your a cyclist increases your chance of a job.

[MichaelW2]

Does employment enhancing sport include golf ?

 

[classic33]

If you mention in an application that it's your actual form of day to day transport they have a different view.

Turned up for the interview on mine, having said how long it'd be before I could be there.

Got the job, by virtue of having actually cycled there("put the effort in to make it" as the person interviewing me said).

They didn't expect me to turn up the following morning though.

 

[raleighnut]

Does employment enhancing sport include golf ?

Only if you're a *anker

Spoiler

Banker

 

[Dayvo]

But I don't want another job

Should I stop cycling in order to avoid overwork ??

Stop working and just cycle -easy!

 

[Dayvo]

Does employment enhancing sport include golf ?

Possibly, because it’s popular with a LOT of nobbers (me included).

If I was employing someone and they mentioned they were a keen cricket fan (red ball cricket, that is), I’d feel inclined to give them the job on the spot.

 

[Cycleops]

Does employment enhancing sport include golf ?

Only if you're a Freemason as well

 

[mudsticks]

Stop working and just cycle -easy!

Genius..

I'd definitely give you a job as a life coach

 

[Andy in Germany]

I've never been asked this sort of thing. Is it common in an interview in the English speaking world?

 

[mudsticks]

I've never been asked this sort of thing. Is it common in an interview in the English speaking world?

To be honest.

It might sway my decision, if there was nothing else in it.

But then I need folks who are 'fit' for the job..

I'd imagine it would definitely help, if you were applying for a job as a cycle courier...

 

[Andy in Germany]

To be honest.

It might sway my decision, if there was nothing else in it.

But then I need folks who are 'fit' for the job..

I'd imagine it would definitely help, if you were applying for a job as a cycle courier...

I've a relative who works in a high flying job in HR* in the UK and from her descriptions of interviews there, the methods used are very different to what I've experienced here.

*Or at least she did before losing her job because of Brexit.

 

[Oldhippy]

I can drive but choose to cycle. It has come up in social care if I have had to train or switch houses on occasion. People seem to think you are poor or weird.

 

[matticus]

I've never been asked this sort of thing. Is it common in an interview in the English speaking world?

OP was not about the interview:

mentioning that you play a sport on your CV increases your employability by 39%

 

[steveindenmark]

For my sailmaking career I used the Yosser Hughes method. "Giz a job"

17 years later, I am still here. Collegues often say to me "Your nuts riding all that way in this weather" 😁🇩🇰

 

[Andy in Germany]

OP was not about the interview:

Ah, fair comment. CV's must be different too then.

 

[bladesman73]

It wouldn't occur to me to mention my choice of day to day transport in an application?

I have been asked how I would travel to work in every job interview I have had!