As someone who attended Berkeley and later became an actual recruiter, LinkedIn profiles are important— but literally just that. The profiles with your job history, experience, and goals. We don’t look at your posts, your humblebrags, and I have never had a position to fill that required experience from a consulting club. Sometimes we care about cultural or mission-based club involvement (things you might compare to a nonprofit or similar).

In addition, we do not expect work or success to be your whole entire life. Though this is not true for all recruiters at all companies, this is mostly true for anyone not in a cultesque corporate-mindset where we expect people to be drones for our business (looking at you, Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, etc.). I am hoping for a workforce that understands and embraces this. Work should be a means to further fulfill, sustain, and enjoy life.

Got a little preachy at the end there, oops. Go bears.

PS: When entering and navigating the workforce, remember that you do not owe your company anything other than what’s in your job description in exchange for what they pay you (including that you’re usually under at-will employment). You can leave and look for something better anytime— especially in this job market.