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Berkeley Professor Says Even His ‘Outstanding’ Students With 4.0 GPAs Aren’t Getting Any Job Offers — ‘I Suspect This Trend Is Irreversible’ (www.yourtango.com)

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There seems to be a large percentage of recent college graduates who are unemployed.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well yeah. Your college GPA doesn't matter unless you're trying to get into grad school.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It did matter for GE. Jerks wanted 3.8 or higher to consider you. They did interviews as a formality. Didn't matter if you went to community or ivy league. Never felt so annoyed at my life choices. Hindsight glad I didn't get the job.

Of course my current company, my coworkers went to a local cheap party school. Like wtf was the struggle for?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Same with Google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair, but that's very rare. Most companies require a degree and then don't even ask for proof of one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I must have hit the bads one often,

Another company literally tore through my transcript and grilled me on why I had a terrible semester. Such dbags. I should've gone to party school.

[–] Subtracty 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The struggle is for nothing? If you went to a school with grade deflation to 'maintain the integrity of education'? Get fucked, party schools will pass kids or allow kids to grade grub to a higher GPA.

Academia is such a fucking game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah I felt like I got wrecked with high debt and high stress for years. Meanwhile I got coworkes who said school was chill and literally on a beach.

I went to just one interview were someone cared about college and that's only because they went there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was hired to a job a year ago that required to see my transcript and GPA for a college degree I got 15 years ago. Apparently grades matter longer than you'd expect.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That's extremely rare. That's also extremely obnoxious because if you don't still have those on hand, after 15 years, your university might not either.

I remember needing to get my high school transcripts in order to get a public trust clearance when I was almost 30. The school didn't even have them anymore.

[–] Dkarma 2 points 1 month ago

If it was federal or state gov job or they had federal contracts then yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And most students today can't even write an essay.