<p>means nothing! Only luck & who you know will ultimately make a difference when you are looking to land a good job/internship. </p>
<p>I just got an offer and it was soley due through a frienship and no one even asked me for my GPA! hah i feel lucky.
Usually have a friend recommend you for the job will make a big difference and you will get the job.</p>
<p>lets count all the things wrong with that...</p>
<p>Do you disagree with connections being the most important factor in landing a job? Or the fairness of such a practice?</p>
<p>I've had 3 internships and 1 full-time job, and I got all but one of them through a connection I had. An upperclassman friend recommended me for one position, the VP of one company I worked for put in a good word for me with his friend who works at another company, which landed me that job. For another, a former professor of mine hired me. Conversely, I've also had a hand in getting jobs for friends of mine. </p>
<p>There are just too many equally-qualified people out there for entry-level positions, so a connection could be the difference.</p>
<p>It's not what you know, it's who you know.</p>
<p>where do you get the great connections??? would it be at a great university???</p>
<p>knowing people does wonders for opening doors, but you (usually) need some credentials to step through.</p>
<p>Right, you still need to be qualified. Nobody's going to hire a lazy idiot for any position. </p>
<p>People make connections all sorts of ways. The relationship could be academic, professional, familial, anything really. You never know who'll be able to help you out in the future.</p>
<p>I got my job with no connections.</p>
<p>I can't tell if this post is a serious one or just someone feeling the need to brag?</p>
<p>Anyways if you are serious then you are wrong. GPA and school can mean a great deal when looking for your first job and very much so when looking for an internship. </p>
<p>But yes networking will help a great deal. But that's no reason to say nothing else matters.</p>
<p>"I just got an offer and it was soley due through a frienship and no one even asked me for my GPA! hah i feel lucky.
Usually have a friend recommend you for the job will make a big difference and you will get the job."</p>
<p>this is OBVIOUSLY evidence enough that GPA and unv. ranking mean nothing!</p>
<p>you are one lucky dude.</p>
<p>hey yovanka1,
didn't you tell me you go to a top Canadian University? Well at least i think its a top school and i've love to go there for grad school.</p>
<p>I got all my jobs by cold-calling. Actually, all my job <em>offers</em> were by cold-calling.</p>
<p>Soooo... yeah, either know the right folks, or go to Illinois or Berkeley or something...?</p>
<p>what is "cold-calling"? never heard that term before.</p>
<p>I believe cold calling means the calls were received without notice, that is, aibarr received job offers that she didn't actually apply for.</p>
<p>oh i see. hehe.</p>
<p>Cold-calling is where the person calls the company not the company calling the person.</p>
<p>iamrightuarewrong is right. (Coincidentally appropriate screenname, man.)</p>
<p>I contacted companies who'd never heard of me before, sent them my resume, and they called me back and offered me a job.</p>
<p>That's soooo cool that they didn't ask for your GPA! Awesome!</p>
<p>Come back here and update when they fire you for your inability to work productively. Then you could start a thread that says "Can anyone tell me how to work harder?"</p>
<p>^do you think students with a higher GPA are more productive than students with a lower GPA?</p>
<p>***** life is not as we think it is.</p>
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<p>In most cases they are. That is why companies hire them more often.</p>
<p>for example: if I got 3.9 in Communication Systems and you got just 2.0 does it mean I will be more productive than you? ( not really)</p>