Recent grads and jobs

[Anonymous]

How many jobs did your recent grad apply to during their senior year/post grad before getting one? And what was their major? DD is a math major at a mid level big 10 school and started applying with a 2.9 and is finding it difficult. Everyone wants to know her gpa and she gets cut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many jobs did your recent grad apply to during their senior year/post grad before getting one? And what was their major? DD is a math major at a mid level big 10 school and started applying with a 2.9 and is finding it difficult. Everyone wants to know her gpa and she gets cut.

Can she lie, or are these companies actually asking for transcripts? When I've been involved in background checks on new hires, the education verification has never gone beyond confirming the degree itself and the date it was earned. Nothing about GPA, even if it was asked for on the application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many jobs did your recent grad apply to during their senior year/post grad before getting one? And what was their major? DD is a math major at a mid level big 10 school and started applying with a 2.9 and is finding it difficult. Everyone wants to know her gpa and she gets cut.

Can she lie, or are these companies actually asking for transcripts? When I've been involved in background checks on new hires, the education verification has never gone beyond confirming the degree itself and the date it was earned. Nothing about GPA, even if it was asked for on the application.

For a fresh grad, in a directly relevant field, I'd 100% ask for transcripts. I may not care about the overall low GPA if the major GPA is solid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many jobs did your recent grad apply to during their senior year/post grad before getting one? And what was their major? DD is a math major at a mid level big 10 school and started applying with a 2.9 and is finding it difficult. Everyone wants to know her gpa and she gets cut.

Can she lie, or are these companies actually asking for transcripts? When I've been involved in background checks on new hires, the education verification has never gone beyond confirming the degree itself and the date it was earned. Nothing about GPA, even if it was asked for on the application.

ugh, please don't do this. it's dishonest, and I say this as someone who lied about my resume when I was a fresh grad desperate to get hired. (I made up two jobs and a few awards and added to my resume and even though nothing did ever come of it, I spent the entire two years I worked for that company worrying about "what if"? It was no way to live. Just be honest.)

[Anonymous]

She should work with the college career service office. Also, apply for a wide variety of jobs. Her cover letter could talk about why she’s looking forward to working and subtly address why her grades are lower.

[Anonymous]

The cut is probably 3.0.

So what's the mid level big 10 college?

Math major from a mediocre college won't be easy to land a good job.

[Anonymous]

GMU CS - $75K starting salary at a small IT company

[Anonymous]

Applied math/econ major from a top school. He got 6 offers out of 7 places that granted him an interview; he said he applied to close to a 100 places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GMU CS - $75K starting salary at a small IT company

tell me you don't know how to read without telling me you don't know how to read

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many jobs did your recent grad apply to during their senior year/post grad before getting one? And what was their major? DD is a math major at a mid level big 10 school and started applying with a 2.9 and is finding it difficult. Everyone wants to know her gpa and she gets cut.

Can she lie, or are these companies actually asking for transcripts? When I've been involved in background checks on new hires, the education verification has never gone beyond confirming the degree itself and the date it was earned. Nothing about GPA, even if it was asked for on the application.

Do not lie!

But she can definitely try to put her best foot forward. For example, she could list her major GPA if it’s higher. I’ve seen other people only list upper level courses if their worst grades happened during freshman year. However, if you lie, it’s almost guaranteed that the offer will be rescinded once they get your transcript. It’s a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

Is her GPA in her major better than her overall GPA. I’ve heard it recommended to list that on her resume.

Did she do an internship with a company that may be interested in hiring her full time?

[Anonymous]

About 80 places here, too. Getting a first decent job is the hardest.

[Anonymous]

My DD graduated with a 2.3 GPA with a math major from a school in the ACC conference last year. She also had a hard time finding a job because she didn't have any connections. She taught herself computer programming for a few months and got two industry certifications. She found a job four months after graduation working as a gov. contractor for 80k/year. She left that job after six months and is now working for Apple for 130k/year.

Companies love hiring females with computer knowledge because they want diversities. Your DD, with her math background, can pick up programming languages in a few months, and it is quite easy. She can get industry certifications like AWS. No one cares about your GPA if you have industry certifications.

[Anonymous]

economics major from uChicago class of 2021, no job yet.

[Anonymous]

Omg. She should not lie. Terrible idea. She would work really hard this semester to try and pull that over the three point threshold.