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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They wouldn’t know- just put where your bachelors degree is from on your resume. [/quote]

That's deceptive.[/quote]

Disagree. It’s the norm. No need to ever mention community college if you don’t want to [/quote]

+1. It’s not normal to put your community college on a resume when you have a bachelor’s from a 4 year school. [/quote]

There are new hiring software that have you input your experience by year (often through hiring agencies/"headhunters") so it would need to go if you put it there.

In my experience of hiring when someone--especially starting out-- puts their degree/year without years attended--there's often someone on the hiring team who speculates whether they switched colleges, took a slower path or whatever and wants to dig deeper--request transcripts, ask more specifically etc.   Some people read it as you're hiding something.  I never did until I encountered other people who flagged it, but now I do notice that when a person who graduated within the past 5 years just puts date degree awarded, usually behind it is that it took them longer than 4 years to graduate or they transferred from a "lesser" school to a better one and just want to record the better one.    As for attitude towards community college first, in my experience there are some people who read that as evidence that someone is less-privileged and harder working and others who read it as they are less intelligent (esp when admittance to schools was more based on SAT scores) --though the majority don't particularly take note of it at all.[/quote]

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