Does a good, but indescriminate EC not look good?

[TangoDown]

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I have been employed by a non-profit in my city for close to a year and a half now. I am an on-call site supervisor for soup kitchens, whereas when my schedule is assigned based on supervisors that are sick or on vacation, I'll go to one of the sites I've previously trained at and manage all aspects of it - food prep, volunteers, paid staff, food safety, food serving, paperwork, etc. I directly interact with the people who we serve, and make sure they're getting what they need. I also periodically interact with social work staff and even clinic staff (only when I've got an issue with a person requesting outside assistance/doing something wrong/getting hurt, and we have a social work side or clinic in the site I'm working at).

I started doing it before I started juggling the pre-med route in my head, but I think it's a great leadership EC in itself.

The only issue is, nowadays, I find myself only doing it during my school breaks. Shifts start in the morning and end in the early afternoon for all sites, and I have classes during the day so I'm not able to work the job. Hence, like I said, I can only work shifts when I have time off from school like during Winter, Spring, and Summer break. Now for the next couple of years, I'll be taking math classes during my various summer breaks (since I'd like to leave CC in a reasonable amount of time), so I doubt I'll have much time for working shifts during much of the summer, either.

So, does my EC lose a lot of validity because I'm not able to do it weekly or even bi-monthly like your typical EC? Note that I plan on staying employed with the non-profit for the rest of the time that I'm in the city (since I may transfer to SF State as a junior to save money for med school, keeping me in San Francisco).

 

[TangoDown]

Bump, anybody wanna lend me some assistance?

 

[eleveneleven]

I imagine consistency is typically preferred, but this still sounds like a strong EC and if you list an a decent number of total hours I can't see why anybody would look poorly on it.

 

[yaytiffanyrae]

I imagine consistency is typically preferred, but this still sounds like a strong EC and if you list an a decent number of total hours I can't see why anybody would look poorly on it.

Agreed.

 

[LizzyM]

It is going to have a tag of "employement, non-military" not "volunteer, non-clinical" so in large part, no one will really care if you worked a few weeks a year or you didn't work at all. It is not as if you were juggling work and school. It is "leadership", too, but most people would list it under employment. (Leadership seems to be a catch-all category for things that are neither "volunteer" nor "employment" such as being president of a club or a fraternity.) You could certainly highlight your supervisory position which goes without saying involves leading others toward a common goal.