A PSA for job applicants: If your GPA sucks, don't put it on your resume.

[eyesroll]

Especially if you're a 2005 law-school graduate and you're applying for an entry-level trade-magazine job in an unrelated field.

Especially if GPA/percentile cut-offs for your graduating class are posted publically on the Internet where we can look them up and then laugh at you.

Especially if your GPA is a quarter point BELOW the lowest GPA mentioned on the percentile cut-off chart and there is a good chance you graduated dead last in your class.

:eyes:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Mine wasn't all THAT bad and I still didn't put it on my resume.

It's just not worth it. Unless you scored over a 3.8, you can guarantee someone applying scored higher. So why bother?

Besides, relevant work experience trumps GPA nearly every time anyway, unless it's a research job.

[eyesroll]

4. Or you're a law student doing on-campus interviewing.

Then the almighty GPA trumps all.

Still.

The guy also put his undergrad GPA on the resume, like he's still clinging to that (pretty good) achievement after not doing so well in law school.

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. Putting information like age, sex, and GPA on a resume is

asking for trouble. There is no relevant reason anyone should need that information unless they're going to hire you, and then asking your sex and age is illegal. They should be able to figure your age out from your date of birth if you are filling out an application. Leave off personal information (except address and phone/email) entirely because it'll do nothing but bias the reviewer, usually negatively.

[grace0418]

3. My GPA rocked but I would feel weird putting it on my resume.

I guess for a job straight out of college it would be relevant. But after you've been working for 10 years it seems pointless. And I've seen resumes of 50-yr-olds with the GPA listed. :eyes:

Your story reminds me of something my mom used to say: "What do you call the medical student who graduated dead last in his class? Doctor."

[seaglass]

5. I put my GPA in my cover letter but I admit my cover letter is not

the usual. I put it in there because I address right up front that I haven't worked steady for 5 years but I do want to balance that with the fact that in the meantime I've gone back to school and my GPA shows that I work hard.

If it didn't specifically apply to my current circumstance I wouldn't use it, but so far it's been helpful.

[grace0418]

7. Oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense. Because the reason you haven't been

working is that you've been in school. I would absolutely use the GPA in that instance. I just meant for someone like me, who graduated from undergrad in 1992 and grad school in 1994, it would be odd to continue listing my GPA as being at all relevant to my career at this point.

Maybe it would be different if I was valedictorian of my class at Harvard.

[Taverner]

6. GPA's=Elitism

I refuse to comment if anyone asks for a GPA.

They don't mean shit.

[KamaAina]

8. I don't have to put mine on a resume.

The phrase cum laude does just fine, thank you very much.

Wonder what Gee Dubya Bush, Y'68, puts on his? :eyes:

[MissMillie]

9. I think his comment reads

"Thank god teeth have skin...."

[txwhitedove]

10. What if it has been so long you don't even remember your GPA??

Was told this week that if I am to work for any company dealing with the Port Authority, they will go all the way back to high school.

[Caution]

11. if it is under 3.5 don't put it on. period.

I've hired a lot of people in my time and seen at least a thousand resumes and man, why anyone would point out that they were anything less than a superior student is something I will never understand.

[China_cat]

12. My son proudly puts on his resume that

he graduated 3rd in his class.

He doesn't bother to tell anyone that there were only 3 people in his graduating class.