• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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        8 months ago

        It’s just an overly positive way of saying, “If you don’t get good grades in uni, many HRs will de-list you before looking at your resume”.

        • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          I literally have never come across a job posting that asked for GPA. Unless it’s like an academic internship or something. Get the degree, and nobody cares about your grades.

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            8 months ago

            I don’t know if they still do, but Epic Systems (the medical records company) asked for GPA when I looked at their job applications. I’m not sure if they care about the GPA, per se, so much as using it as a way to practice their notorious (but hard to prove) age discrimination.

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        8 months ago

        That wasn’t a lie, exactly, it was just Baby Boomers not realizing how much the world changed since they were in school. It used to happen that way. My mother got her first job out of school when the employer came to campus to recruit through a job fair.

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      8 months ago

      Relevant quote:

      If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire

      -George Monbiot