#11

All jobs are going to be automated within months anyway, put your feet up.

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#12

Yeah, if you’re lucky enough to have a like from @marckee then that can go front and centre - one page CV, done

#13

Where I work they don’t give two hoots about your A-Levels. Graduate job aplicants are considered on having a degree and good GCSEs in Maths & English.

#14

If you have a half decent degree, I don’t see why they’d give a toss about your A-levels tbf. I used to have mine on my CV (and the year / place I got them, so no need to say they were repeats or whatever), but once you’ve got a bit of experience, no one could possibly give a shit.

#15

I didn’t even do A-Levels(book), lads!

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#16

Yeah we knew

#17

I was going to write a long reply, but marckee’s basically nailed the best route. By omitting the first sits you’re not lying, just obscuring slightly so the worst that can happen is someone will sift you out on the basis that it looks like you’re hiding something. Far more likely they won’t notice.

As someone who’s sifted a lot of CVs, you need to keep in mind that for many jobs, and certainly those with large numbers of similar applicants, your CV will get about 30 seconds of attention before being either thrown on a “possibles” pile or an “outright reject” pile. Your degree will probably be the first thing they look at, then probably your other education grades. Nobody will be perusing the dates until they sift the possibles again, if they bother to. At that point the rest of your CV will be getting more attention.

You might get asked about it at an interview. If you are, tell the truth. What you did shows character and perseverance, not failure, so you should present it that way when asked to account for yourself. Any good boss will rate that, any bad one can go fuck themselves.

Good luck, and try not to worry about it too much.

#18

Oh look I did write a long reply after all.

#19

I’m a cultured and flamboyant european so I did the international baccalaureate instead (you cunt)

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#20

Such language in an SSP thread…

#21

I think the graduate training schemes tend to ask for them. I recall when I looked at the Accenture application form back in 1998 it was asking for my a-levels and possibly also my GCSE values beyond just English and Maths?

There was a LOT to fill out in that form, though: show ways in which you’ve run a team, etc. That sort of thing that naturally favours the life experiences of those who’ve gone down a Public School -> Oxbridge route, I suppose.

Graduate jobs where there are lots of applicants will ask for this sort of data because I guess they have a lot of possible people to sift through?

#22

I’m 26 and I don’t even list internships now let alone A levels. No one gives a shit. I doubt whether any of my employers have actually bothered checking my university grade tbh.

#24

howdy punkosaur,

i never look at grades when we get a cv in or when someone is coming in for an interview, granted that might just be our line of work but i really couldn’t give a monkeys.
i just really want a good attitude

#25

Surprised you got into Uni with two Ss and a P to be honest

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#26

No one gives a shit in my experience. Some ask for particular a levels of c and above English/maths GCSEs but if you have a degree they will largely overlook that cause they presume that you are adequately able to write.

#27

I’ve been doing a lot of job hunting recently. And most places won’t care, however one I applied for wanted you to be from a Russel Group university and wanted BBB at A level. This was rare. It’s much more common in banking/big consultancy jobs though I think (which I don’t work in).

#28

Only came into this thread to see if it was made by punkosaur

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#29

I didn’t do A Levels or get a degree and I earn £££s so no one cares really

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#30

I got BCU to begin with then eventually ABB. It’s just the dates at which I received those grades (one in 2011 and two in 2012), and the fact I sat my exams/resits at two different colleges, is complicated, and I’m a bit worried that might be taken into account when applying for jobs - that my final grades might not be considered ‘genuine’ or whatever.

I’m probably over-worrying but idk. Does stuff like this only matter for really specific careers? Does it matter for things like jobs in media/government and politics (just as an example) and stuff like that?

I was under the impression none of that mattered at all after getting a degree. I always thought A-Levels were merely regarded as a passport for getting into uni, not as a passport for graduate jobs as well.

#31

I had a year of trying to do anything other than go to uni after finishing my A levels, when I caved in and applied only one university actually asked to see my A level certificates - and that was the worst uni of the lot.

So it seems some universities don’t give a fuck unless you’re straight from school