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[quote=Anonymous][quote]When I hire, I would take someone with job experience over someone who hasn't worked. No job history is worrying and I stay away from anyone who is applying to a post-secondary education job as their first job. Someone who has worked while in school is a positive for me, and I don't care nor check to see what their GPA was. Grades are pretty immaterial. If you got the degree, you obviously met the standard. I can also see on your C.V. if you had scholarships, awards etc. Jobs teach so many skills that school doesn't and I want to hire someone who has proven they have those skills.

If I see no job history, the application goes in the round bin regardless of how much of a superstar you were in high school or your GPA. I just can't take the risk that comes with someone who has never proven themselves in a workplace.[/quote]

That's fine, but most kids these days at least do unpaid internships, summer internshps etc. to get work experience, regardless of whether they pay their own way through college.  If you are viewing someone who performed cafeteria work during college to pay their way (as I myself did) more favorably than someone with a high GPA, I suspect you are an outlier, regardless of whether there is a legitimate rationale for that view.[/quote]

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