I listed only my junior year GPA on my resume - it is 0.4 higher than my cumulative GPA which I didn't list. After getting a full time offer at a bank, can I get dinged if they don't like what my cumulative GPA is?? I would appreciate honest and not judgmental feedback. Thank you.
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i hope for your sake that you at least mentioned that the GPA you listed on your resume was your Junior Year only GPA. if not, you are potentially fucked (as in offer rescinded) because .4 is a huge "fudge".
there are several different scenarios if you mentioned that the gpa was junior year only:
say your junior year GPA was 3.7. a cumulative gpa of 3.3 is not acceptable for most firms. (significant ding) say your junior year GPA was 4.0. a cumulative gpa of 3.6 will fly (minor ding).
i put 3.3 as my junior year when my cum gpa is more like 3.0... both not good...
did you specifically mention that the gpa was junior year?
Have you already been given an offer or is this hypothetical?
I'm assuming the former...yeah that is a huge no-no dude...
.04 is not a big deal, but a .4 is significant and will get you dinged if noticed.
i specified it was junior year...
What did you say to specify?
If you specified, I think you'll be fine...
even then 3.3 is pretty low for banking unless you go to a top target i guess
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it's highly unlikely that they will go through your resume line by line in a background check. at most, they will check the dates that you worked there, and maybe your job title.
I disagree with the previous comment. I was actually right next to my boss when my new employer called to do the background check and they went pretty in depth for about 7 or 8 minutes about what I did, the items I listed on my resume, how I worked in a team and with senior people, etc. And how did your cumulative gpa drop .4 in one semester or year?
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That's different though. The employer is calling your boss, they didn't outsource it to a background check firm. It sounds like they were more asking for a recommendation than a background check.
Also, the cumulative GPA was always that low, but his junior year gpa was higher than cumulative.
are they really allowed to verify that info? i just assumed they called HR and asked to verify that you worked there. What if your previous boss didnt like you and wants to try and screw you over?
Well, I guess if you stated that it was your junior year GPA, you would be OK...but why anyone would care about your junior your GPA and not your cumulative one is beyond me. Are you sure you aren't making this up?
That said, on an aside (and not related to this particular author since he apparently did not lie about his GPA...which is still a suspicious story in my opinion) -- Why do people even lie about their GPA? Is it really worth the chance of getting caught? I know this is a question that bears repeating throughout the forum, since every couple weeks someone on this forum has a "GPA" question. It worries me to think that I may have at one point worked with some people that lacked such ethic and common sense...
hr wont check, they will hire some background check companies to do that job....hr ladies are too busy to deal with this cr@p
I agree with you, numi, that it's not worth "fudging" your GPA. It just isn't. But I knew a guy in college with a ~2.5 GPA. There's basically no risk in lying about your GPA at that point--I mean, you're not getting the job with a 2.5. What's the worst that could happen? You get fired and blackballed from an industry that would never hire you in the first place? Suffice it to say, this schmuck (I love the guy, but he's a schmuck) broke into the industry under false pretenses and has been at it for 16 or 17 months. In fact, he's done better than me.
Even at that point, i wouldn't lie about my GPA...sometimes you never know....there could be other factors that work in your favor. Someone from my college broke in with that kind of a GPA and he didn't lie about anything.
The thing about background checks is that the "checkers" don't care who you are, what skills you have, your personality, or your prestigious job experience. Their job is to find an inconsistency in your documentation and then red-flag you.
don't ever, ever give them an excuse to question anything, because at that point, it doesn't matter if you aced your interviews or if your uncle is a VP in the department.
so guys my gpa was expected to be 3.6 but it ended up 3.5 so when background check starts do i just tell them I ended up with a cumulative 3.5
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