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It's part of your background check. You'll sign a waiver that authorize Kroll (or whatever firm is doing the background check) to obtain your educational and employment info from school / past employers. They will in turn get your transcript / diploma directly from your school and verify that it matches the info you provided. DO NOT LIE about your grades, you will almost 100% get caught. When I was in banking, we had to withdraw an offer because this idiot had doctored his transcript to change a C to an A (which is ridiculous because the dude had a ~3.75 GPA and he would have had the job anyway) and it was found out during the background check.

 

But what if the background check is already finished and already received an offer? Of course, that would be outright stupid. I reported my actual GPA while I was interviewing and got the offer. I was just wondering how employers do go about verifying someone's transcripts to tell if it's authentic and not fake (such as editing, etc) if they even do in the first place.

 

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