<p>If you have a masters in accountancy do you put that gpa or the undergraduate gpa? Also do recruiters come to campuses and recruit graduate students? Would I need to include my undergraduate gpa in my resume when I hand the resume out to recruiters?</p>
<p>Depends on how well you did in undergraduate. If you had a 3.5+ in undergrad and then made a 3.5+ in the MACC program, then I would include both.</p>
<p>Always need to do better in the MACC than undergraduate (unless you did amazing in undergrad…and then as long as you are still in the same ballpark). </p>
<p>If you made a 3.8 in a Masters and a 3.2 in undergrad, I would only include my Masters GPA, personally. </p>
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<p>I am going straight into the B4 out of undergrad and included both my major and cumulative GPAs on my resume. I think just having your major GPA is risky–recruiter will instantly think you are trying to hide something. Then again, a 4.0 in accounting and a 3.0 in everything else…they might not care, since you are going into accounting. General rule though: it is suspicious to not put your cumulative GPA.</p>
<p>Some of you guys are completely racist and that’s probably why you can’t get a job with a big four accounting firm. I am an attractive African American Female with a 3.78 GPA in addition to over five years of accounting experience with a top corporation. I plan to go to work for a big four accounting firm not because of my race or my gender, but because I’m qualified for the job. Getting to where you want to go in life is about vision. You have to see yourself were you plan to go and work towards your goal. Stop complaining about who is already there, because truthful they don’t care use your energy toward something positive. I feel very sorry for you guys you are so very bitter and ignorant and you all need Jesus. I’m praying for you guys.</p>
<p>^^That’s an odd post to make 2 months after the fact. Did you search Big4+Blacks or something? I don’t know how else you could stumble on this with such anger.</p>
<p>qclark, if you get in. It’ll be because of gender and race and nothing more (including whatever adjectives you added in there). But rest assured, those who get in with these attributes will not last.</p>
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<p>I am really surprised to A) see this thread bumped and B) to have race become one of the main objects.</p>
<p>I don’t have much to say other than you GPA is irrelevant at this point in your career. You experience must speak for itself. As an educated African-American female, there are definitive advantages to gaining employment. With diversity being a goal of most firms, yet a shortage of qualified diverse candidates, especially females in the accounting industry, I would be thankful for the built in advantage more so than seeing it as being judgmental to acknowledge them.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>So basically anyone who isn’t the ‘typical’ hire is the preffered hire. I think this is based on geography not generalizations.</p>
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<p>Not sure why these threads get bumped only to tell everyone how heartless and socially inept they are being.</p>
<p>If you go to a school that gets recruited, have at least a 3.5 (in most cases), have some leadership activities and can hold a conversation, you will definitely get at least a first round interview. The rest depends on your interview skills and luck.</p>
<p>Is it not true that if two identical candidates are applying and it comes down to a choice they’ll choose the one who creates an atmosphere of diversity? I’m not in the professional field, but this would seem like the appropriate action… and I’m neither heartless or socially inept, just cruising the forum adding my two cents.</p>
<p>“If you go to a school that gets recruited, have at least a 3.5 (in most cases), have some leadership activities and can hold a conversation, you will definitely get at least a first round interview. The rest depends on your interview skills and luck.”</p>
<p>This is true mostly but lets qualify this statement. If you have the above qualifications, you will probably get at least some 1st round interviews, but NOT all. I had a higher gpa than that during recruiting season but didnt get an interview with two of the firms. It always seems like recruiting is somewhat random at times. I had a friend who didnt get an interview at one firm, but got interviews and then offers at all the others. </p>
<p>Some firms will interview more student than others, different students made more of an impression on different recruiters, and recruiters have different tastes. As a result rarely, anyone that I know got interviews at all of the firms they applied to. </p>
<p>But I agree that GPA is very important. At my school, if you have less than a 3.3, you probably wont get any interviewers and I know people with much higher GPAs than that that got nothing.</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re right. I should have added “generally” to my statement. There will always be exceptions.</p>
<p>It is a pretty common exception. Alot of people that fit that criteria dont get all 1st round interviews. But chances are you will get some. </p>
<p>I know a kid, nice guy who can hold a conversation, had at least 1 impressive leadership position that I know about, and a gpa between 3.4 and 3.5, he didnt get a single interview. I don’t know the stats of most people who got interviews or didnt but based on the few people I talked too and myself, most people who got interviews did not get all 1st round interviews at the major firms. Although some definitely did. </p>
<p>Like i said, this is due to alot of things. Probably, at my school it is mostly due to the varying amounts of people that the different firms interview. One big 4 firm only interview a dozen or so people, while the others will interview 35 plus. But even then, there are people with very high gpas, leadership positions, and sociable that dont get all the interviews. From the student’s end, there seems to often be a sense of randomness in the decisions.</p>
<p>Weird, I guess it can also depend on your school. I just went through internship recruitment myself and I don’t know a single person with a 3.5+ that didn’t get an interview. I guess being in Los Angeles helps a bit with that since the firms here recruit A LOT of people (something like 40 total interns per firm per practice).</p>
<p>As far as getting an interview, the school you attend is right behind GPA in degree of importance.</p>