<p>Just said you have 3.6 as your overall GPA but that because you only have good grades with General and support classes, Your cores are extremely bad with B C D all the times.</p>
<p>You should have a technical GPA as well as an overall GPA. They will be quite alarmed if there is a significant difference between the two.</p>
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<p>Then that would imply that employers would be regularly alarmed. After all, let’s face it, tech classes tend to be graded harder than non-tech classes. I would venture to say that most engineering students have significantly lower tech GPA’s than non-tech GPA’s.</p>
<p>There’s a debate on whether they look. What it generally comes down to is some do and some don’t.</p>
<p>Mine requested an official transcript before I started work</p>
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<p>I suspect that was simply to ensure that you didn’t outright lie - i.e. that you really did earn a degree from the school with the GPA that you claimed. </p>
<p>That’s quite a different matter from using your transcript for hiring purposes. In the OP’s case, as long as he doesn’t outright lie about his overall GPA, then it doesn’t really matter what his technical GPA is. His transcript may reveal his poor technical GPA, but he never claimed to have a strong one.</p>
<p>When I was hired by a state agency, they asked for an official transcript to verify I had the minimum number of credit hours needed.</p>
<p>on a resume, i would recommend stating the high of your GPAs: overall and major. that is assuming they are decently above a 3.0. if they’re both good then state both, but there is nothing wrong with trying to show yourself in the best light. you are trying to get hired after all.</p>
<p>My technical GPA is higher than my non-technical GPA.</p>
<p>For most students, their major GPA is higher than their overall GPA. The reason is that calculus, sciences, etc. aren’t traditionally included in a major GPA - just the classes you took within your major school. Further, you usually don’t take classes in your freshman year, when most students have their lowest GPA. You can also report a “technical GPA” if it’s higher than the major GPA. I’ve also seen a “Core GPA” which only includes core classes and excludes electives, even technical electives and electives in their major. You usually calculate and report one (or none) of these on your own along with your overall GPA.</p>
<p>These days, pretty much every major corporation will ask for your transcript for the rest of your life. But, as sakky said, most of the time it’s to verify that you actually have a degree. Where I worked, we asked for a transcript as part of the employment application (after you’re hired, most companies have an “application process” which includes a criminal history check, drug test, transcript check, sometimes a credit check, etc, which, as long as you didn’t lie during the interview process, is just a formality - it usually happens a week or two before you start work). As long as you didn’t lie on your resume (for a new hire, this means verifying GPA, degree major, and graduation date) you “passed”. For interns, we asked for a transcript before every semester and check GPA and major (some students would change out of engineering and “forget” to tell us). For experienced hires, we just verified that you had the degree(s) you claimed to have. </p>
<p>I have worked with some people that requested the transcript during the interview process. Once I saw the transcript used to assign interns to specific projects (you wouldn’t want to put a student that hasn’t taken “Reactor Design” on a reactor design project). But most of the time, it’s just people looking for an abnormality - someone that changed majors 5 times, someone that’s applying for an engineering position that is pre-law, etc. No one is going to put a microscope up to the transcript and say “Man, he got a C in health? We can’t hire him as an electrical engineer!”</p>