Subj : Re: Academic grades should be USELESS
To   : comp.programming
From : rmoldskr+usenet
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 06:08 am

James <james_unix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I don't know why these software companies put a lot of stress on the
> academic grades. The academic grades have nothing to do with the
> technical know-how of a person. I have a just an average academic
> grades and because of this I was not able to sit in the interviews of
> most of the companies, which visited my university, inspite of the fact
> that my technical know-how is the among the best in the
> university.

You're assuming that those companies were looking for technical
know-how. 

As far as I can see, many and perhaps even most of the companies that go 
onto the campuses to recruit are not primarily looking for people with
the right skills, but rather for people with the right characteristics -
such as ambition, dedication, the ability to learn, leadership potential 
and similar. Academic grades can be a good indicator for some of those
characteristics.

-- 
Leif Roar

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