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Hi All,
Wanted to ask you all a question through the veil of anonymity provided by the internet since I don’t feel comfortable asking anyone I know in person.
Recently, I was prodded by a friend (not in the accounting field) to take the Mensa Admissions Test. I thought about it for a while and decided to do it. I didn’t tell anyone I was taking it, I just went to the supervised testing session, paid my $40, took the test, and left. Well, as it turns out, I scored a raw score of 100 (99th percentile) and was qualified for membership (where you essentially have to pay $70/year for sparse benefits and some occasional “meeting of the minds”). What drew me in as the biggest benefit to membership was the networking app. As fellow public accountants will know, our livelihood within the firm is eventually determined through our sales contributions. I thought, “hey, not a bad way to network with like-minded business individuals and establish some credibility before even talking about business solutions”. So I forked over the money and am a “Mensa Member”, I suppose. Interesting aside, they take the top 2%, which in the US, would be roughly 6 Million people and the website touts membership of about 57,000 (essentially, 1% of the 2% are actually members…). Makes you wonder if it’s actually worth it. Oh well, trial basis, I say.
My question is, would you ever put something like that on a resume (i.e., Organizations: American Mensa, etc.)? Or do you think you would be negatively labeled as a pretentious d-bag? I currently have a job in public accounting, just food for thought in case I ever decided to pursue other opportunities.
Note: While I may be labeled as “intelligent” through the classical definition of the word, my emotional intelligence, which some might argue is more important, would probably fall 2 or 3 standard deviations below the mean. Sometimes I wonder if I’m a social dullard (to clarify, I do have several close friends…I am, by all definitions, an extrovert, but emotional intelligence as it pertains to business is what I’m referring to). So please, don’t take this post as a self-indulgent pat on my own back, just curious what your thoughts were about putting something like that on your resume and whether you think it would be helpful or disadvantageous to the job seeker.
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