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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grades are not the be all and end all in life. When employers are looking to hire, they don't ask for a transcript.

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]

Not sure which way the PP intended this but I read it as an argument in favor of paying your kids way if you can/shows the unfair advantage kids whose parents can afford to pay have.  There is a huge difference in the quality of work experience you can get at an unpaid internship over a work study type job (like working the desk at a library for example) which lets you earn some cash but doesn't really provide any experience.  Whether or not your parents pay is not determinative of whether you'll get a summer job but it might impact what kind of summer job you can accept.[/quote]

I don't ask for a transcript, but I do ask for references.  That isn't all that different from a transcript in the end.[/quote]

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