<p>" Alan Sage, a vice president at Configuresoft Inc., a Woodland Park, Colo., systems-management software company, says he routinely asks applicants to submit their SAT scores when they apply for sales jobs. He says he picked up the practice from a former employer of his who wanted applicants to have no less than a combined SAT score of 1400/1600. "</p>
<p>CareerJournal</a> | Employers Might Ask For Your SAT Scores</p>
<p>I guess I’ll have to retake SAT during college years.</p>
<p>I suspect that this practice is relatively isolated.</p>
<p>" I guess I’ll have to retake SAT during college years. "</p>
<p>Same here… </p>
<p>And Silverturtle, what do you mean?
I received a reply in my email from a SUNY Albany admission counselor and he was aware of the competition to company brands using the SAT as a determinant factor whether it was important 5 years ago or not.</p>
<p>Sad thing is that employers do not do score choice, only colleges do. They prefer single sitting. Some of us just aren’t good at standardized tests and depend on score choice for a total of 2000 or above.</p>
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<p>If the practice of using SAT scores for hiring purposes is commonplace, I’m not aware of it.</p>
<p>Well, now you are.
Given the article provided.</p>
<p>^ I didn’t get that impression from the article. Even the College Board seems skeptical about this practice.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard from couple of others, it may be used as 5% of the 100% resume when applying to top 15 companies/hospitals.</p>
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<p>" Interesting article, I was aware of a few companies with these kinds of
requirements. They are usually really high end competitive employers who
tend to get lots of 4.0 applicants so they have to sort them out another
way. It makes sense that with the economic dive other groups are picking
it up for the same reason, a way to weed out a few from all the
qualified applicants. </p>
<p>Heather Miller
University at Albany
Admissions Counselor
University Hall 112 "</p>
<p>That’s like asking a kid to submit his middle-school grades when he’s applying for undergraduate admissions.</p>
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<p>To an extent, perhaps. More accurately, however, the practice is probably an attempt to find an objectively standarized measure of ability. The best tool for this is the SAT.</p>
<p>^ It’s not so much that I’m against standardizing reasoning/aptitude/whatever the heck these tests determine for hiring positions, it’s just that it seems like a test you take in high school shouldn’t have bearing on whether or not you are employed after you graduate college. Maybe these employers should use the GRE (though I suspect several do already).</p>
<p>This would be good for those who had a poor high school educations but a great college one. And yes using the GRE makes more sense.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of anyone being asked for SAT scores, other than those looking to work for tutoring companies. CB only keeps scores for a decade or two, so I suppose those of us who took them ages ago are just out of luck too.</p>
<p>Uhm, my high school chemistry teacher who has been teaching for upwards of 25 years had to get her SAT scores for something… and the collegeboard still had them on file… so they keep them for longer than a decade or two…</p>
<p>They DO ask for scores, particularly the competitive industries like finance etc.</p>
<p>I definately need to retake it :)</p>