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What should a grad school resume include?
Your graduate school resume should focus on highlighting your education. Include your educational experience at or near the top of the resume, with your school names and majors/minors, graduation dates and GPA. You can include major test scores if they enhance your suitability to the program.
How important is work experience for grad school?
Relevant work experience is also valuable to graduate programs because it adds depth and enriches the learning environment; if you don’t have any, you’re at a disadvantage because you are competing with peers who are more attractive in the admissions race.
Does industry experience help for grad school?
Industry experience will often hinder you, because it is a signal (a reliable signal in most situations) that you are not up-to-date with the cutting edge of research; and that your academic skills have atrophied.
What GPA should you put on a resume?
3.5
Do jobs Check your high school grades?
Employers tend to be more concerned about collegiate academic performance than with high school grades, but some entry-level jobs in retail, foodservice and sales often rely on high school students. Professional career fields that require a college degree are most likely to request college grade information.
Do grades matter to employers?
“Grades certainly do matter when we’re recruiting students,” he says. “It’s really one of the only indications we have of a student’s technical ability or competence to do the job.” The career services directors I spoke to all say that employers want to see a GPA of 3 or higher, and many put the floor at 3.5.
Do employers care about high school?
“The distinction between a high school diploma and a GED in the eyes of an employer is very negligible. Most employers do not in fact care whether a candidate has a high school diploma or a GED unless there is a relevant reason to,” says Nate Masterson, director of HR for Maple Holistics.