<p>Most of the time, college admissions will NOT look at the jobs students have held. However, if your job is the central thing in your life, if you are not a traditional student, yes, it can be something examined carefully and taken into account. That has to be brought to the attention of admissions, however, most of the time. </p>
<p>Some years ago, my husband’s department included a young woman who had gone straight to work for the company without even completing high school and performed extremely well. She did get her GED and was doing sterling analyst work and had all of the skills, intelligence, insights to become a consultant, move up in the company. She had joined the company when it was small and privately owned, and then it was purchased by a major firm For her to move up in the company, and also to address a lot issues where her educational gaps were becomeing evident, she needed to get a college degree and really a MBA. For her to get accepted to those programs that best fit her, she needed a holistic examination of her resume and abilities, or it would take her a year or so, more, to get those things that are traditionally part of the app system The college in mind for her did not take those who simply got their GEDs, for example. She had actually taken CLEP for some college credit on her own, but again, that college did not recognize CLEP credit. She was non traditional enough, and outstanding enough, that the school did evaluate her holistically, and made exception to a number of things.</p>
<p>So, though colleges that do scrutinize ECs will look at jobs you’ve had before, they are usually only weighted as a small part of the admissions process, unless there is an outstanding reason to make them the primary factor. To get more weight put on something, than usual, in admissions, it’s usually important to make admissions aware of the mitigating circumstances so that such an application doesn’t get lost in the shuffle and evaluated with the batch. Though it is possible, that someone will notice it as unusual, and so pull it, it is wise to have it falgged and evaluated as something quite different. </p>