Is it appropriate to put your HS GPA on your resume if you're still under 30? My bf says yes, I say no.?

Question

I've been job searching for a long time with no luck, and when he reviewed my resume, he said I needed to put more educational info on it, like my GPAs, possibly my ACT scores, the languages I (kind of) speak. He also says I need to put my relevant courses on it also, but I am not looking for a career-type position right now--I just need a job to pay the bills while I get my degree, hopefully a job where I won't want to kill myself in a couple of months from boredom. Plus, my degree work isn't really my first choice--I just want to get out of college! Seeing as how I'm not having luck in my job search, I am thinking of taking his advice, even though I don't agree with it.(p.s. If a question mark shows up at the very end of my question, I didn't put it there!!)

Answer 1

No -- people will laugh at your resume if they see a HS GPA. In fact most people don't even put their college GPA on their resumens.

Answer 2

Speaking as a former employer...

I ran 3 of my own businesses where I hired younger people to work for me. When I reviewed their applications/resumes, each one gets about 10 seconds apiece.

What I was looking for was how relevant was their experience and skill packages to the job position I was trying to fill. Basically if you can't show the employer in your first page that you have training &/or experience for the job, you are wasting their time and thus will not get the call back for an interview.

I never bothered looking at GPA scores, or ACT scores. Languages were only relevant if the job position was asking for a multilingual person. Basically, the best resume is no more than 2 pages in length, contains only necessary personal info, and all work skills & job references should be directly relevant to the job position.

Also, don't staple the pages, don't use coloured paper, don't put it in a envelope, and if possible, hand it directly to the person who will be evaluating it. If they can put a face to the resume, they will remember you and if they don't hire you directly, they might mention you to someone else who might hire you...

Answer 3

In my experience both in HR and as a functional manager, I really didn't care about high school grades unless the position was for a high school intern.

I also am not interest in ACT scores unless I am hiring you to do test preparation work.

If you put down a language on your resume, you better be functional in it if not fluent.

You have to tailor your resume to each specific job you are applying for.

You have to emphasize the skill set that you have that applies to the job you are looking for.

And then the general skill/character set such as being articulate, a good writer, punctual, eager to learn, resourceful, personable, work well with teams and so forth.

Not knowing the type job you are looking for, I say:

keep out the stuff about gpa, act, languages that you sort of know.

try to show the interviewer that you understand the requirements of the job by tailoring your resume to the specific job.

if you are asked in for an interview, be ten minutes early, be professionally dressed, answer questions concisely, and have a list of questions you want to ask about the job...not including how much time off do I get.

Answer 4

Emphasize your extracurricular events and community involvement. there isn't any genuine reason to place your GPA on your resume, so which you will in simple terms bypass over it. absolutely everyone who needs to renowned will ask you on your interview, and you'd be shocked what proportion ability employers do not placed lots inventory in those 3 numbers.