Absolutely agree with your last sentence — the personality is much more important. However I’d never put a “Hobbies” section in my resume, I’ll explain why. In fact, my travel blogging experience is put on my “Experience” section, together with all the programming roles I ever had. If you put something in a “Hobbies” section nobody would seem to care, because the employers don’t care about what you like to do, they care about what you actually do, they care about the result. So what I advise in this article is to try making something valuable out of your hobby and generate a result. If you like playing guitar — nobody would care, if you write that you have an experience as a guitar player in a band — that’s another story. If you like cooking — again, nobody cares, if you create a blog about cooking and share your favorite recipes and get social media following — that’s something valuable. If you like reading — who doesn’t like? But if you list in your resume that you created a local reading club where people gather and discuss books — now that’s an experience! So these are two different things — loving to do something, and actually doing something, and most of the employers would only care about the second one.
