Various applications require students to include “Work or Employment Experience.” Last year, I was employed by a startup that designed Linked-in profiles for international students and immigrants seeking job opportunities. While I went through a pretty intensive training process and learned quite a bit from the experience, the startup failed before I ever got the opportunity to actually work with any of our clients.
Would it be “okay” to include this as employment experience, or would it just sound a bit slippery?
Were you paid for your time? Did you actually show up at a work site? Was the training longer than a day? If this was a real job, the fact that you were trained to do it, but never got to actually work is besides the point. It’s still a job. Admittedly, it’s a very minor job. Do you really want to clutter up your application with every tiny little job or activity that you ever did? Wont it be more of a distraction, taking attention away from your more important ECs? Of course if you have nothing else at all, this shows that you do leave the house for something other than school…