Need a final look at my resume before I submit to tons of companies

[SeductivePig]

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[Gibson486]

The whole point is that if you never had that skill, then you never had that skill. If you put that on there as a skill and you get grilled on it and show that you do not even have any practical skills on it, they will label you as a liar and the interview will be over at that point.

Also, people will continue to ridicule you on your GPA. Just live it with it and stop blaming the school system.

 

[Q]

I also worked as a bouncer at Walt Disney World's Pleasure Island as a second job one summer. It was on my resume until I began my PhD work. I left it on even though I had experience at a military lab, AT&T, Lucent and Motorola. At most, it was an interesting talking point; something unusual. You never know who it is that might interview you. Maybe they worked there too. Maybe they've got a kid that works there. Maybe their grandmother was decapitated on a roller coaster at that park. You never know.

This is a very good point. I worked an internship at a..."women's apparel" ...company and almost every interview I went on they always asked about it. You never know what sticks in the HR reps mind when reading over hundreds of resumes.

 

[SeductivePig]

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[randomrogue]

You did get an engineering degree. That shows the ability to learn. I generally sold myself to an interviewer as someone who could learn anything. So even if you only have a basic skill in something you could expand upon it if needed. Truth is that most of us learned 95% or more on the job.

 

[TecHNooB]

I would actually say purdue has grade inflation.

 

[SeductivePig]

I would actually say purdue has grade inflation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_...colleges-with-the-easiest-and-hardest-grades/

 

[gorcorps]

Offense taken, I don't know where you went to school but Purdue is known for having a ton of grade deflation for engineering. 2.5 where I go isn't the same as a 2.5 at some other school.

Regardless, my gpa won't be going on my resume and the field I want to get into doesn't care about gpa that much. Furthermore not every employer asks for it.

I just need advice on my resume, if you want to post irrelevant stuff do it somewhere else please..

My company does a lot of recruiting through Purdue, and I can tell you we most certainly do treat your GPA as incredibly important and usually require 3.0+ from any engineering college... UNLESS your transcript shows that your GPA got better the further into school you were. Some people slip early in school, but it's being able to learn and adjust over time that we look for.

The biggest issue you're going to have is your holier than thou attitude in thinking Purdue is different from other engineering schools. They're all tough... GPAs are comparable across them and when recruiting you bet your ass we look for that. Purdue, Colorado School of Mines, Michigan Tech, MIT, Rose Hulman, etc are all notable engineering schools. You will not get an automatic GPA excuse because you went to Purdue, and not including either your overall or your major GPA is a HUGE red flag to me. Without previous work experience all I can go off of is your school, and having no GPA will end up in the trash can.

I know I sound mean, but you need a healthy dose of reality before you say something bad in an interview. GPA is important to a college grad. Major GPA is generally more important than overall, and it's expected to be higher. Any GPA below 3.0 is usually going to raise an eyebrow so you better be able to explain yourself. That's when you produce a transcript that shows a rough freshman-sophomore time that you were able to improve on. Your school is NOT that special and your GPA will NOT be treated as anything but a generic measure of how you may stack up as a new hire. It may not be accurate or fair but it's all they have to go on.

Nothings worse than a recent grad who thinks he's the only one who had it tough in school. Time to grow up and be prepared to explain why you couldn't reach a B average in your major, when other engineering specific schools actually REQUIRE a 3.0+ major GPA to graduate.

 

[SeductivePig]

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[gorcorps]

I addressed this issue earlier. I'm not saying I'm special and I would never mention grade deflation to an employer. That's dumb and shows lack of responsibility. I know full well that I messed up, but I came out of college achieving achieving something I was proud of during my last semester. I think it's a bit unfair for people to judge based on gpa alone. I worked with people in senior design who had much better gpa's than I did but they performed much worse when it came to applying what they learned.

I sort of got screwed because when I switched from chemical engineering to electrical, that was the semester in which Purdue stopped removing bad grades from a previous major when switching majors. My gpa is further deflated from organic chemistry, organic chemistry lab, and chemical engineering calculations. Then again, I shouldn't be relying on that in the first place.

My GPA is a result of a lack of preparation going into engineering, a lack of interest, and I was also pushed into it by my parents - I wanted to be a finance major at OSU but they refused to pay for it. I did alright freshman year but the courseload nearly doubled sophomore year and I flunked my 3rd semester, and my 4th as an EE. Was not prepared.

My advice would be to have several copies of your unofficial transcript with you during any interviews. You certainly aren't the first person to graduate with a lower GPA and employers will still get to know the person a bit before dismissing it completely. Showing that your bad grades were in a major you transferred out of, while not good, should help explain.