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<p>Yes. There are tons and tons and tons of jobs in which employees are hired without face-to-face interviews. I’ve twice been hired with nothing more than a phone call.</p>
<p>Goldman Sachs might have the dough to pay its candidates to fly halfway across the country for an interview, but the vast majority of employers don’t have that same luxury.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, although physical appearance is not explicitly used as a criterion in employment, it definitely plays a role in many industries. Employee (male or female) in industries that rely on image and client interaction are generally going to be presentable if not attractive.</p>
<p>I would end up calling all in for interview because even with a low GPA that person most likely had to do a lot to get into a school lije Princeton. in the first place so it’s worth talking to them.</p>
<p>The first person I would call though is probably the UMass grad because that is a decent school and has a high GPA. The 4.0 is great but at a community college were so many people attend and the acedemics are easier then other schools.</p>
<p>please stop your nonsense</p>
<p>the Princeton kid gets the job hands down</p>
<p>The “opinion” of which student gets the job is irrelevant when it’s given by hs seniors and college students who have never hired anyone. In the interest of self disclosure, people who are opining on who would get the interview / job should also indicate how many people they’ve hired, in what industries, whether fresh from college or later, and what salary ranges. Otherwise, some college kid saying “the Princeton guy!” is useless.</p>
<p>“, although physical appearance is not explicitly used as a criterion in employment, it definitely plays a role in many industries. Employee (male or female) in industries that rely on image and client interaction are generally going to be presentable if not attractive.”</p>
<p>Yes, thanks; since I have client interaction, I get that. In spades.</p>
<p>A 2.5 GPA from any university, Princeton included, is not going to open many doors. Heck, I have known a 3.7 student from Yale who could not find a job, and according to her, she was not an exception. Of course, a 2.5 student at Princeton who majoed in EECS and had to work 40 hours a week to support him/herself may get away with it. But most of the times, a 2.5 GPA will not make it far.</p>
<p>portfolio sounds like JohnAdams12.</p>
<p>I interview all of them in random order (or based on other qualifications such as work experience etc) because it’s ridiculous to reduce applicants to numbers or which school they went to.</p>
<p>I don’t know what kind of smoke some of you are blowing but even RACE is often a factor in job employment. I doubt if there’s any company (a bank especially) who’d like to fill in all their seats with Asians or Blacks, for example.</p>
<p>looks and personality do matter whether you agree with me or not.</p>
<p>Um, now you’re going into the realm of racial discrimination, which is explicitly forbidden by federal and state laws, and which results in zillion-dollar lawsuits and public shame for companies caught doing it.</p>
<p>i’m just trying to be realistic and frank. I don’t do that personally, but to deny that looks and race don’t matter in application is denial at its best.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want to work for a company that discriminated on that basis.</p>
<p>I’m sure there’s still subtle racial discrimination going on. Thankfully, that attitude is dying out.</p>
<p>^ but the problem is, selection process is often not transparent. would you actually know what runs in the minds of those in-charge in hiring/HRDs? how would Citigroup, for example, look when everyone that works there is Chinese, for example? how would Citigroup thrive under such homogeneous racial/ethnic composition?</p>
<p>Its all about the interview at the end of the day. GPA just helps you get in the door.</p>
<p>That’s correct buzzer, but a 2.5 GPA, even from Princeton, will usually not get one’s foot in the door for most jobs students in CC enquire about. There are many good companies that will hire 2.5 students mind you, but not at the in-demand companies such as GE, PG, the Pharmaceuticals, Financial Institutions, Consulting firms and tech companies etc…</p>
<p>For what it is worth, I am in pretty much the same situation as the Vanderbilt student in this exercise: similar caliber school, SLIGHTLY higher GPA, and I can count my interviews on one hand.</p>
<p>Also RML is right. I have seen several financial institutions/consulting firms that have separate recruiting contacts for LGBT and minority students. Wall Street especially is making an effort to recruit more LGBT applicants.</p>
<p>I agree with what Alexandre has said. GPA plays a role in one’s job application regardless of where that GPA was earned from.</p>
<p>If I was hiring, I’d interview all of them. They’re all very attractive candidates, and if I wanted to discriminate one from another, it’ll be based on how well they performed in the interview.</p>
<p>Though, realistically speaking, below a 3.0 and HR filters out. However, once you get it past HR, you’re good to go.</p>
<p>I would interview them all, and would look most closely at their extracurricular or work experience at college and summer jobs. I would also look for strengths that are needed in my departments.
Regarding race, in my 15+ years in banking, finding a qualified candidate that was not a white female was a real feat. Race would be a positive factor, especially since I always worked for companies that wanted to represent the communities that they served.</p>