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RE: Resume: Educational relevance in light of actual experience?
Subject:RE: Resume: Educational relevance in light of actual experience? From:Diane Evans <DianeE -at- LOCKSTREAM -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:16:36 -0700
Salette says, "At a prior job, I was not only asked this question on the
application, I
actually had to supply transcripts. An HR rep later told me that the company
did not hire anyone with under a 3.0 GPA."
Who ever said that GPA was equivalent to success on the job? My son has
every learning disability that could be imagined and struggled to maintain a
3.0 GPA. He finally dropped out of college (he was 18 and had 60 credits --
a very motivated yound man) and took a programming job making twice what his
mother was making as a college professor.
Obviously, I changed careers at that point....
Diane Evans
Information Developer
Lockstream, Inc.
425-709-6840 x 230
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