Advise for College Students Searching for Jobs

[Spartacavolus]

Im talking fresh out of college. Once you have experience, GPAs mean nothing.

I gotcha. But I'd probably take a lower gpa person who held a job or two while attending college over a higher gpa student, depending on personality etc.
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[VolsNSkinsFan]

I will also add the newbies should go to the UT Alumni marketing functions, thats a great way to find a job. And going to a few ToastMasters meetings isnt a bad idea either. Learn how not to say "ahh, umm, you knows"

 

[theFallGuy]

the best advice I can give you is to participate in voting Obama out. You are about to figure out how great his stimulus was.

 

[jwells]

I included my transcript in my portfolio to show why my gpa was a 3.5whatever. I had a bad first year, then averaged like a 3.8-4 the rest. I think it helped, showed I wasn't hiding anything.

This was for teaching, so I also included my kid's test grades during my internship.

Thanking my first interviewer (didn't get the job) helped me stay in touch enough to help lead to the job I have now. the two worked together previously. Any extra reference or connection can pay off.

 

[Pulscifer]

Thanks for the advice. I'll be needing it soon.

 

[vol_in_ar]

If you get an opportunity to meet people from a company that you think you may want to work for, take advantage of it, especially if your academic program has something set up for students during the job search process. And make sure you try meet someone with some influence in the interview selection or hiring-decision process. And make yourself stand out. There are too many good resumes and you need to make yourself stand out.

Oh yeah, and if you don't put a GPA on your resume, assume the person looking at it is going to think you have bad grades and not give it a second look.

That is all.

over the last 7 years, I've probably hired close to 50 people, and maybe a GPA was on 10-15% of the resumes, but it's never been an issue

 

[Pulscifer]

For any of you guys that are Lawyers or currently in Law school or are striving to do Law, is being a Criminal Justice major good enough to pass the LSAT and get accepted? I've read that Philosophy is a great major because it helps with critical thinking and logic.

I'm currently a CJUS major in my sophomore year. If I need to switch majors I was thinking about just keeping my CJUS credits and minor in it so the credits aren't wasted.

I was thinking about trying to become a federal prosecutor or attorney.
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[SDV]

I did criminal justice and it really doesn't matter what your major is. Won't matter at all on LSAT results or law school admission.

For any of you guys that are Lawyers or currently in Law school or are striving to do Law, is being a Criminal Justice major good enough to pass the LSAT and get accepted? I've read that Philosophy is a great major because it helps with critical thinking and logic.

I'm currently a CJUS major in my sophomore year. If I need to switch majors I was thinking about just keeping my CJUS credits and minor in it so the credits aren't wasted.

I was thinking about trying to become a federal prosecutor or attorney.
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