Many of my friends are talking about finding jobs recently. One of the most questions they talked about is that if their education background really matters when they apply the firm. I have a friend’s friend’s friend who has another friend, and then he had a girlfriend whose dad works as the CEO in the Industrial Bank. He ever told my friend that the education background really matters when you apply the firm. The firm cares about not only which university you graduate, but also what GPA you get. God, look at my GPA…… But why？Generally, you may think that you are the smartest person, and you could do anything if you would like to do. If the firm could give you the opportunity of training curriculums, you should be the person who could handle them faster and better. But why should the recruiters believe in you? If you have ever worked in other companies, then your working experience, your boss, and your reputation and credibility in the industry would prove it for you. But now you are only a college student. What you know about your ability may have some deviation from what the recruiters know about yours. Therefore, your education background will prove your study ability to some extent, and your GPA will prove your mental level, your learning attitude, and the aspects that the employers pay more attention to. Through the above analysis, you could understand now why the college graduates who don’t have or have only a little working experience need the education background and the GPA to prove them. Similarly, that’s why the firm would care about the college graduates’ education background as well as their GPA.
I think that recruiters should have some alternative tests to gauge their applicants abilities to learn and perform their job. I believe that in some fields the education from school is largely irrelevant and if the recruiters weight their judgements heavily upon their applicants GPA’s they end up with workers who did the best in school instead of the workers who have the potential to perform their job most efficiently.
I’ve always heard the only reason you should keep your GPA up is for applying to graduate school. While I would argue the degree should be telling enough about a person, especially when we charge such high monetary values for acquiring one. Unfortunately, the ability to pay for a degree and not work very hard by completing school with a low GPA leads to low performance in the work place or in graduate school, ultimately diminishing our standards across the board. Still, the ability to pass a standardized test is not one that I posses, and the term “D’s get degrees” is something I’ve had to rely on before. So I would also agree recruiters should have some alternative tests to gauge their applicants abilities to learn and perform their job.