Employers don't care where you went to school, nor about your GPA...Atlantic article.

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Caught this on Yahoo this morning. The article makes the argument that where you went to school (school reputation), GPA, and specific courses taken don't tend to matter much to hiring managers. It makes the case rather that the things you do outside of college matter a lot more. Internships (paid or unpaid), jobs held while in school, volunteering, and extracurricular have disproportionate importance once the basic's are covered (having a regionally accredited degree).


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/thing-empl...00059.html

""When employers do hire from college, the evidence suggests that academic skills are not their primary concern," says Peter Cappelli, a Wharton professor and the author of a new paper on job skills. "Work experience is the crucial attribute that employers want even for students who have yet to work full-time."

Before you retreat to the comment section and scream at me for saying that school, classes, and grades don't matter, let me say: I don't think this should be interpreted as a sign that schools, classes, and grades don't matter. Employers might not crave academic skills. But students often qualify for the "right" internships by getting good grades in relevant classes at challenging schools. In this calculation, a strong academic record buys you a strong experience record, so when an employer is evaluating your internships, he's indirectly evaluating your academic achievements, too."