Ask HN: Are new grads expected to exaggerate their skills on resume?

Re:Ask HN: Are new grads expected to exaggerate their skills... by DanBC on Friday December 11, 2015 @04:19PM (#10720123)

> If you don't mind lying, most companies will never check your GPA past the transcript you hand over (if you do that at all). So you want to embellish that 3.2 GPA to be a 3.5+ go ahead.

That's potentially a criminal offence in the UK, and probably the US.

(Fraud act 2006 in UK)

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3bbd58ec-6df3-11e1-b98d-00144feab4...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10941476/...

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Re:Ask HN: Are new grads expected to exaggerate their skills... by hacknat on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:57AM (#10732184)

From the US, and am a hiring manager, can confirm. I'd suggest people just leave their GPA off their resume/CV. It won't hurt you to do so, and if the company wants it you can give it later (or not and run away from that company).

Such outsized importance is placed on projects these days, and the state of most CS programs is so bad, that I would only care about GPA if you graduated from a very good school or I was an academic admissions person.

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