Had an interview at Geek Squad.... went HORRIBLE

[BTA]

All I can picture is how weird and awkward you look when handing someone your transcript...

 

[Genx87]

I stopped including any information about my education except that I have a Bachelor of Science on my resume. If anybody asks for a transcript, I make it obvious they wont get one, if they push it, I walk from the interview. At this stage of my life what I did 10 years ago in school has zero relevance on my skillset today. And if these bozo's are looking for a transcript I take it as they are looking for a reason to not hire me. And would I want to be in an envionrment that is looking for reasons to not keep me around? That, and anybody looking at transcripts when they have an applicant with 10 years of experience is retarded. I dont work well with retarded people.

 

[lupi]

Getting Cs in government, lulz.

 

[pmv]

LOL

I honestly think at that point I would have said

"WTF? I'm applying for a job with BEST BUY---not trying to get into Harvard! This is a job where people in black tie costumes, to portray the 15 year old stereotype of a computer nerd, fix computers by running restore disks and then overcharge old people! I don't know how prestigious a place you think this is to work, but you're judging me on my grades, and you're what....35? 40? You work in a place where you have to wear a tag with your name on it to work everyday. Me thinks your grades weren't so hot either, and, well, here you are! Now cut the intimidation crap and either give me this pathetic job or not."

Can't help but agree with this. Not as literal advice, obviously, but the general sentiment.

That transcript is not particularly impressive, but for God's sake the OP isn't applying to Harvard or NASA! Just how bad _is_ this recession?

 

[slightlyhuman]

this thread is filled with dick holes.

keep trying OP, good luck in this economy.

 

[Wyndru]

Regarding your question about the certifications, I think this is the type of job where you definitely would want to show these, so I would say keep doing so. GJ getting the certs too, everything helps, and employers love to see people who go out and do testing like this.

After you have had a few years experience you can take the lower level certs off of the resume, since they are kind of a moot point then.

Good luck OP!

 

[CRXican]

should have stayed at Target

 

[ch33zw1z]

It's not what you know it's who you know.

time and time again, i see this ring true.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Please stop showing off your transcript. Go in with a resume. I've never needed a transcript to get a job.

 

[Mo0o]

All I can picture is how weird and awkward you look when handing someone your transcript...

Exactly what I was thinking.

Why would you show them something that makes you look retarded, especially when no one is asking for it.

 

[AMDZen]

Exactly what I was thinking.

Why would you show them something that makes you look retarded, especially when no one is asking for it.

It doesn't make him look retarded, just average.

But oh yea, this is ATOT - everyone makes millions every paycheck and got nothing but strait A's through school. At MIT or Harvard, sometimes both.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Fail.

Keep trying, just without the terrible transcript. And if you mean to make something of what is on your transcript. . . might want to work on that.

 

[KIAman]

Hang in there OP. Don't take the fact Best Buy rejected you as any metric of your ability for employment.

A year before I graduated with my Compsci degree, I applied to work for BestBuy as I thought it would be an interesting place to work on that is somewhat related to my future career. After interviewing for 30 minutes, I realized I wasn't getting the job. The interviewer had no clue what she was doing and kept looking at her coworkers sending secret non-verbal messages and laughing.

After I had enough of the bullsh*t, I told her good luck in her future employment if this is a reflection of her work ethic to which she replied "You are not qualified to work here anyways so good luck on getting a real tech job." I remember laughing on my way out.

After finishing up my degree, I got a job doing software dev and make 3x my starting salary and about 10x what I would've been paid at that Best Buy.

The sweet irony is when I saw that same girl's application and I remembered the name and I looked at the job history and one of them was "Geek Squad Manager." and no formal or other education to speak for. I called her up and said "Way to burn your bridges, you aren't qualified to work here, good luck in life."

PS: Show absolute confidence in everything you do. Perception is so important and without knowing anything about you, an interviewer will take your view of yourself as a big clue. Show confidence without stepping into arrogance and you will already have a huge 1-up in any interview you run into.

 

[nick1985]

Hang in there OP. Don't take the fact Best Buy rejected you as any metric of your ability for employment.

A year before I graduated with my Compsci degree, I applied to work for BestBuy as I thought it would be an interesting place to work on that is somewhat related to my future career. After interviewing for 30 minutes, I realized I wasn't getting the job. The interviewer had no clue what she was doing and kept looking at her coworkers sending secret non-verbal messages and laughing.

After I had enough of the bullsh*t, I told her good luck in her future employment if this is a reflection of her work ethic to which she replied "You are not qualified to work here anyways so good luck on getting a real tech job." I remember laughing on my way out.

After finishing up my degree, I got a job doing software dev and make 3x my starting salary and about 10x what I would've been paid at that Best Buy.

The sweet irony is when I saw that same girl's application and I remembered the name and I looked at the job history and one of them was "Geek Squad Manager." and no formal or other education to speak for. I called her up and said "Way to burn your bridges, you aren't qualified to work here, good luck in life."

PS: Show absolute confidence in everything you do. Perception is so important and without knowing anything about you, an interviewer will take your view of yourself as a big clue. Show confidence without stepping into arrogance and you will already have a huge 1-up in any interview you run into.

LOL. Nice story. :thumbsup:

My GF has a similar one. She used to work at a salon where a few bitches were nasty to her. They would steal her tip money, delete her appointments, make fake appointments, etc. She left there because of their harrassment, and got a job as a manager at some new salon. One of the bitches tried applying there.

lol

 

[sactoking]

1. Don't bring a transcript
2. Don't put your GPA on your resume
3. Have a good answer for what your GPA is
4. Supplement your time in school with other activities (kinda like when you were in high school)

When I graduated I had a ~2.3 GPA, 3.2 in major and 2.0 in electives. I got an interview at a job fair (because they will schedule an interview by talking with you and not by resume). When I showed up I had to fill out an application and put in my GPA. Of course, the interviewer asked. I said "Well, I agree that my GPA looks low. However, I did well in my major courses, which are the ones that are important. In addition to working in school I was elected to run a volunteer organization with 300 members and a budget of several hundred thousand dollars." I was interviewing for a management job and got an offer.

 

[lupi]

OP probably lives in a van down by the river.

 

[Moonbeam]

Hang in there OP. Don't take the fact Best Buy rejected you as any metric of your ability for employment.

PS: Show absolute confidence in everything you do. Perception is so important and without knowing anything about you, an interviewer will take your view of yourself as a big clue. Show confidence without stepping into arrogance and you will already have a huge 1-up in any interview you run into.

Gosh, if you're right and that is the real world, where self confidence is contagious and appealing, then all these assholes who tried to run the OP down with their bitter small minded carping, all disguised, of course, as helpful advise, weren't really helping him at all but were just taking a dump on the poster because of their own inner feelings of not, themselves, measuring up.

Thank you Dear Sir, you were doubtless able to pull off this self confidence thing because you got an A in being human and tapped into it.

 

[Sinsear]

Hang in there OP. Don't take the fact Best Buy rejected you as any metric of your ability for employment.

A year before I graduated with my Compsci degree, I applied to work for BestBuy as I thought it would be an interesting place to work on that is somewhat related to my future career. After interviewing for 30 minutes, I realized I wasn't getting the job. The interviewer had no clue what she was doing and kept looking at her coworkers sending secret non-verbal messages and laughing.

After I had enough of the bullsh*t, I told her good luck in her future employment if this is a reflection of her work ethic to which she replied "You are not qualified to work here anyways so good luck on getting a real tech job." I remember laughing on my way out.

After finishing up my degree, I got a job doing software dev and make 3x my starting salary and about 10x what I would've been paid at that Best Buy.

The sweet irony is when I saw that same girl's application and I remembered the name and I looked at the job history and one of them was "Geek Squad Manager." and no formal or other education to speak for. I called her up and said "Way to burn your bridges, you aren't qualified to work here, good luck in life."

Awesome. So much win for you!!

 

[PricklyPete]

I think it is funny that some dude at Geek Squad felt the need to tell you "not impressive". What a Jackass.

Stop showing your transcript.

 

[NinjaTech]

Believe it or not even Best Buy is being choosy right now because the economy is so bad. They want someone with more experience but don't let this interview discourage you. Get some advice on writing a technical resume. Dress nice and try again. :thumbsup:

 

[IndyColtsFan]

The sweet irony is when I saw that same girl's application and I remembered the name and I looked at the job history and one of them was "Geek Squad Manager." and no formal or other education to speak for. I called her up and said "Way to burn your bridges, you aren't qualified to work here, good luck in life."

You, good sir, are full of win. I do hope she remembered you and what she said in the interview and felt like a complete and total dumbass.

I had a similar situation on an interview with a large tech company. I posted the story a few times in this forum, so I won't do it again. Suffice it to say this company was rude and condescending and when it was my turn for questions, I made them look like complete fools.

 

[Wyndru]

Nobody with a Masters or Ph.D. is applying for a job at Worst Buy.

Don't be so sure...we had a woman apply as an level 1 tech at the school I work at, she was working on her law degree (she had her masters, I think she was working on her J.D.). When we asked her where she saw herself in 5 years, she replied, hopefully not here. She explained that she had been job searching for over 7 months, and was willing to work for $10/hr now.

We denied more than half of the people who applied because they had way too much education, and we knew they would just leave once the market got better.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I'll chime in and say the people nerd raging at the OP's grades are all people who never went to college, and possibly never went to high school either since this was math I took in grade 11.
C is the class average. B is +1 standard deviation. A is +2 standard deviations. Having a B is good. While there are many different systems for what the range is, a common range for B is +0.5 to +1.5 standard deviations (GPA range 2.5 to 3.5). Assuming your grade is right in the middle of that range, +1 standard deviation, that means you are better than 84% of the class.

We have a similar scheme here. That still doesn't make a C decent. It makes a C mediocre.

 

[Acanthus]

rofl

Believe it or not, its hard to get an A in that course.

Doing all of the assignments is so fucking tedious because it's not teaching anyone in the class anything.

I wound up with the A, but I can completely see why someone wouldn't want to make fucking 6 spreadsheets every 2 days.

 

[jtvang125]

The only thing you need to bring with you is a well written resume and your certificates if they're relevant to the position you're applying for. Don't mention GPA or any courses you've taken on the resume. If you have a degree definitely put that on the resume. If you don't but are currently taking classes towards one then just mentioned the school name and dates of attendant.