For on campus recruiting, at least for finance jobs, DS was told to include both his GPA and SAT scores on the resume.
Of course that was for a first job so a little off topic. I just thought it was interesting that they wanted the SAT scores. I have heard they sometimes ask for that even if you took them years and years ago. I don’t even remember what my scores were from back in the dark ages when I took them.
Mine graduated in 13 and 14 and no prospective employer has asked about gpa. D1 is now moving to her 2nd job and what they cared about was the work skills (that includes her thinking skills) and energy she can bring.
But I’ll say this: if she were asked, D1 would start by answering with her gpa in her major.
I had my GPA and my major GPA, the latter was much better. SAT scores, wow, I’ve never heard of that even for Wharton grads.
My GPA didn’t matter when looking for a government job during on campus recruiting, but a Fortune 50 company’s HR department nixed my second interview though the interviewer loved me (my GPA was sub 3.0). As for getting into grad school, if you can take courses non-matriculated, and prove you can get As, and ingratiate yourself with the professors and department, you can pretty much get in anywhere (that allows non-matric, anyway).
As for later jobs, the GPA came off the resume, just two lines with courses listed in a sentence format (Differrential Equations, Thermodynamics, etc.). I think I still have two lines of my courses from undergrad on my resume with 20 years of work experience.
"So can I assume if this was so for this company they already have that info and he, at least, passed the GPA test since he is onto 2nd interview? "
Yes, I think it is safe to assume that by a second interview, the focus will be on “fit”, personality, relevant skill-set and ability to master new material, and not resume screen type criteria. Good luck to your son!
One of my kids took a job with a consulting firm right after college. She was required to provide her SAT scores, and her GPA played an important role in recruiting in this particular field. Three years later, she applied to graduate business schools, and again her undergraduate GPA played an important role, both in admissions and in consideration for merit scholarships. She’s gotten a lot of mileage out of that GPA (I say mileage because in her case it worked in her favor). But I doubt it will ever matter again.
rhandco crazy, right?
I guess since I don’t remember mine, that says something about my abilities too haha.
@blossom, thanks!
The ROC(Taiwan). From having family still there and from being there, I can’t see any way a political candidate would be willing to bring up or political parties risk the opposing candidate bringing up their own candidate’s poor academic record in school in light of the prevailing cultural norms there. And it would be practical political suicide to parade one’s poor academic record as a joke or a badge of honor as is sometimes done here in the states as was the case with W’s speech at Yale.
A reason why if a prospective candidate did have a poor academic record and no exceedingly high achievements surpassing the plethora of prospective political candidates with superior records and elite school degrees…especially the flood of candidates from schools like #1 NTU, that candidate is unlikely to even be considered a viable candidate for running for public office. A campaign wouldn’t even be considered in that light.
I’ve heard and noticed similar patterns with politics in Japan and South Korea. There’s a reason why it seems nearly every candidate proudly displays their status as elite school grads whether it’s domestic like Tokyo U or SNU or abroad for grad school like Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, or Harvard.
It also doesn’t necessarily mean the politicians are considered superior intellectually to the rest of the population. The current ROC President Ma-Ying-jeou is widely panned as a “dummy” in some corners of the local mass media despite having law degrees from NTU, an LL.M from NYU law school, and an SJD from Harvard Law. My impression is more the elite school degree and/or high grades is used by the electorate as a perceived way to minimize the possibility the pool of political candidates and elected politicians are complete blithering idiots.
I frequently interview job candidates. For new grads & summer interns we have a minimum GPA cutoff (it’s quite forgiving).
For experienced hires we look at their experience. I also look them up on** Linkedin **and sometimes call the connections that we have in common. We barely even glance at what school the experienced candidates graduated from, let alone care about their GPA.
@GMTplus7 Is the GPA cutoff 3.5-3.6?