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1. Decide What Extracurricular Activities Can Add

Extracurricular activities can provide useful evidence from parts of university life that fall outside formal education and employment. Student societies, clubs, committees, athletics, competitions, conferences, campus initiatives, and similar activities may reveal sustained involvement, practical responsibilities, collaboration, organization, communication, technical interests, or engagement with a professional field.

Their value depends on what the candidate actually did and what the activity contributes to the overall resume. A fresh graduate with limited employment experience may have substantial evidence from a student organization or technical club. A candidate whose internships, research, and projects already provide extensive evidence may need only a compact extracurricular section.

The first construction task is therefore to identify potentially useful activities and understand what each one contributes. An LLM can examine a wider history than the finished resume currently contains. A suitable LLM task instruction could be:

The candidate can provide informal notes, calendar records, existing resume material, or recollections from several years of study. Long-context communication is particularly useful at this stage because relevant evidence may be scattered across many experiences.

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1.1. What Counts as Leadership Experience?

Fresh graduates sometimes interpret leadership too narrowly and look only for formal titles such as President, Team Lead, or Committee Chair. Leadership experience can also emerge from organizing an initiative, coordinating people, taking responsibility for part of a team project, mentoring other students, managing an event, resolving coordination problems, or helping a group complete a shared objective.

A useful Leadership Experience section therefore begins with the candidate’s actual actions and level of responsibility. A formal title provides context, while the description shows what the leadership involved.

For example, a student society president may have substantial evidence of leadership. A project member who coordinated six students across several workstreams may also have relevant evidence even without a leadership title. At the same time, participation alone does not establish leadership. The candidate needs to be able to describe some meaningful responsibility for people, coordination, decisions, initiatives, or collective execution.

An LLM can help discover such evidence across a candidate’s broader history. A useful LLM task instruction could be:

This instruction becomes more useful when the candidate supplies the complete resume and informal experiences that have not yet been written into it. The model can then search across a larger context for leadership evidence that the candidate may have overlooked.

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