I am applying to a job asking for transcript. Mines is not good (2.8gpa and also took 6yrs to finish Bachelors due to not taking my classes seriously for select semesters). Should I just forget about applying for this job and not ruin my reputation when they see my transcript or try anyways.
asked May 17, 2020 at 21:44 1,376 2 2 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges What reputation do you have to ruin? Commented May 17, 2020 at 21:55 You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky Commented May 18, 2020 at 16:37 I doubt anyone really cares about grades as long as you graduated. Commented May 18, 2020 at 17:35I made a 2.73 in college but now I work for a huge tech company and I’m doing extremely well at my job. During my interview I gave it everything I could to demonstrate my skills and experience. It is not impossible to get the job you want. It is impossible, however, if you don’t try. Your reputation that you worry about is nonexistent, especially straight out of college.
Commented May 19, 2020 at 14:32If you are applying to companies for your first professional job after completing a bachelor's degree, then pretty much every one of them is going to ask for your transcript. There's really no getting around it, unless you want to remove it from your resume, but then you will have to explain what you did for all that time. What you need to do is to minimise it's impact on their impression of you.
Did you improve towards the end of the degree? Then you can say that as you matured, you realised that you needed to take work and study more seriously. This is best placed in a cover letter.
Are there subjects where you graded better than your average? Then focus on jobs where those subjects are desirable. Highlight these as part of your resume/CV.
Make the degree less relevant. Take additional courses and get additional certification.
The good news is that once you get that first job, and as long as you are professional and keep improving your skills, your degree will be less relevant when you look to move to your next job. And then even more so.
As a side note, different schools calculate GPA differently - I know some that calculate it out of 4, others out of 5, and yet more out of 10. So it's hard to say how bad 2.8 is (2.8 out of 4 doesn't sound all that terrible to me - my final degree score was 46% but I highlighted those subjects where I performed well and got my first engineering job - after applying to somewhere close to a hundred companies and getting through to a couple of interviews).