Some People Are Putting Their Fitness Achievements on Their Resumes

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  Here's your money briefing for Wednesday December 18th.

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  I'm JR Wellan for the Wall Street Journal.

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  A challenge many job seekers face is how to make their resume stand out among scores of others sitting on hiring managers' desks.

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  Some are including athletic achievements, specifically their performance in marathons.

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  There's this idea of how you do one thing is how you do all things.

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  That was a theme that came through from the recruiters I spoke to and also the people who are putting this type of thing on their resume.

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  They believe marathon is hard work training for it and the actual race itself.

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  So those values that a marathon requires translate to the workplace.

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  We'll talk to Wall Street Journal contributor Caitlin Carlson after the break.

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  More people are including how they did on marathons on their resume.

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  Is that a good idea?

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  Wall Street Journal contributor Caitlin Carlson joins me.

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  Caitlin, is this new?

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  A few people I spoke with said that they've had it on their resume for a while now,

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