I wonder how many employers check the grades with your university or even report it if it's against the law. I realise it depends from country to country and employer to employer, just wanna now in general any experience. It's quite common practice at my place, but I don't know anyone who did it unfortunately. I need to provide a list of my grades because of English and that's fine coz my English 1 is B and E2 is A, but other grades have a lot of D's and E's so I want to upgrade some of them. It's not a degree, just a list of grades, though there is an official uni seal on it.
Having good grades is important now. If you have the D's turn them to B, at least. Give your major courses priority. In the interview, they ask academic questions too and if you're from CS background, you would face questions which hadn't been taught at your university.
i have a GED and several skill certificates electrician,mechanic,computer engineering, no one cared that i scored in the 99th percentile on all of them... since they will always hire the one with the more prestigious name attached sooo no they dont care about the grade they care about where you got it >.> wish i went to MIT instead of community college...
I honestly think the practice is stupid. Your past scholastic performance does not predict your present and future work performance. At most, it can only provide a glimpse on certain skill predispositions.
Ahh! Sir, I think that will be no good.. I am applying because I dont have work and i dont have money..so how can I pay $10,000?
Of course its a different matter though in job hiring if there are two or more applicants for the same position. Even if i were the HR officer, i'd go for the one with the better grades
I am CS grad but it's not a CS job(flight control), what kinda questions that weren't taught at the uni?
Companies check your grades in uni? Wow, that seems so weird to me... I never heard of it happening on my country.
They might end up asking in some country I guess... I doubt you'd need to pay a fine though, it doesn't make any sense, why would you have to pay to get hired?
In my opinion, grades will only get you in the door. Work ethic and some common sense will help you stay. I wouldn't bother with upgrading your grades, but bringing to the table something you've worked on to prove your effectiveness. I hired a CS grad a year ago who brought examples of projects he had done and discussed what he did and what worked/didn't work on his projects. Also, good schools don't have as much effect as you think. I've fired Harvard grads and kept people who went to community college and then graduated from a state school. The former was too lazy and wouldn't do any work assigned to him. The latter was a hard worker that was innovative and came up with effective, out of the box solutions.