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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] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

Most people don't understand what college is actually for. Most people think college is to learn something and then you make a career out of it. Well, it's not, unless you want to go into academia.

College is a way to socialize and meet other people. This means you need to get into the right crowds and meet the right people. You use this time to do things like internships. What you learn and what your GPA is does not matter to any employer. Who you know, does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Your take would make sense if internships weren't completely swamped

My cs internship took about 300 or so applications to get one (after about 5 months of looking). It's even worse now, and knowing people doesn't mean much in this industry unless it's a small local company or you somehow know the vp of a company.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is where having a good GPA matters and going to a good school. If you want to go to school to learn, that's cool, but don't think it's going to get you a good job.

If you were in the same Greek house as the hiring manager, your chances go up. If you went to the same school or went to a prestigious school like Yale, your chances go up. No one is looking at your GPA at this point though.

You really have to go out and socialize. It's not enough to just have a degree anymore. You need to do projects. Contribute to open source projects. Go to meetups.

If you have Google on your resume, you're good. It doesn't matter how good you did there. Employers look at this. If you start your career off on the wrong foot, it will follow you around for the rest of your career and it may be difficult to get out of it.

[–] stoly 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody ever cares about anyone’s GPA except to get into grad school.

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