2 decades later and I just put 10 GCSE at C and above in a single line 🤷♂️
Noones even checked my degree lol
People have GCSEs or A Levels on a CV…? 🤔
CVs and interviews are not meant to be truthful.
They’re about how much bullshit you can get away with without anyone calling you out on it.
Didn’t work for 2 years? “Sorry, I’m under an NDA so cannot comment on that time.”.
Cannot provide a reference for a specific position? “They went into administration a year after I left / that person died/left and I don’t have another contact.”. (Also, just get a mate to pretend to be the reference).
Don’t know how to do a thing that you claimed that you did? “We did it a different way. Give me the training document so that I can adhere to company processes.”.
If he’s applied for jobs lots of times in a decade he’s not doing that well
I’m 39 and i still have my certificates in my national record of achievement in the loft “just incase”.
I don’t recall ever being asked about them for any job. I have 2 considered a pass. Now at 40 I run my own ltd company. I don’t think anyone really cares about them.
*fucker
😂😂😂👍👍👍
I had the opposite experience, my first job after university (where I got a 2.1 in Theoretical Physics) was at M&S
Their requirements were that I’d passed English and Maths at GCSE and they refused to take my degree certificate or A-level certificates as implicitly proving I had GCSEs, they needed those specifically
Please keep your certificates, even just English and Maths. Apprenticeships (especially ones you do through work instead of straight after GCSEs) will often ask for them and it costs £57 each to replace them.
I interviewed an 18 year old for a cold calling sales position once several years ago and they brought all their school certificates in a little folder.
I took my GCSEs in 1988, think it may have been the first or second year they were ever sat. The school I did them at no longer exists, I have no idea of the exam board they went through and I lost my certificates years ago. Good luck to any employer who wants to double check on them, I’d imagine it would be a right faff for little gain.
Counting is easy, look
A, 2, D
(Home Alone)
lol. No one checks is right. I got a D in math but said I got a C. I ended up doing computer science at uni. and then a job as a software engineer.
A bit different for me being an actor lied that I was a confident horse rider . First day on set had ride a fucking horse .
I lasted 20 mins when it threw me and I was replaced due to injury .
Learnt a valuable lesson that day don’t lie on your cv
Is there even a point of including your gcse’s if you have a degree?
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2 decades later and I just put 10 GCSE at C and above in a single line 🤷♂️
Noones even checked my degree lol
People have GCSEs or A Levels on a CV…? 🤔
CVs and interviews are not meant to be truthful.
They’re about how much bullshit you can get away with without anyone calling you out on it.
Didn’t work for 2 years? “Sorry, I’m under an NDA so cannot comment on that time.”.
Cannot provide a reference for a specific position? “They went into administration a year after I left / that person died/left and I don’t have another contact.”. (Also, just get a mate to pretend to be the reference).
Don’t know how to do a thing that you claimed that you did? “We did it a different way. Give me the training document so that I can adhere to company processes.”.
If he’s applied for jobs lots of times in a decade he’s not doing that well
I’m 39 and i still have my certificates in my national record of achievement in the loft “just incase”.
I don’t recall ever being asked about them for any job. I have 2 considered a pass. Now at 40 I run my own ltd company. I don’t think anyone really cares about them.
*fucker
😂😂😂👍👍👍
I had the opposite experience, my first job after university (where I got a 2.1 in Theoretical Physics) was at M&S
Their requirements were that I’d passed English and Maths at GCSE and they refused to take my degree certificate or A-level certificates as implicitly proving I had GCSEs, they needed those specifically
Please keep your certificates, even just English and Maths. Apprenticeships (especially ones you do through work instead of straight after GCSEs) will often ask for them and it costs £57 each to replace them.
I interviewed an 18 year old for a cold calling sales position once several years ago and they brought all their school certificates in a little folder.
I took my GCSEs in 1988, think it may have been the first or second year they were ever sat. The school I did them at no longer exists, I have no idea of the exam board they went through and I lost my certificates years ago. Good luck to any employer who wants to double check on them, I’d imagine it would be a right faff for little gain.
Counting is easy, look
A, 2, D
(Home Alone)
lol. No one checks is right. I got a D in math but said I got a C. I ended up doing computer science at uni. and then a job as a software engineer.
A bit different for me being an actor lied that I was a confident horse rider . First day on set had ride a fucking horse .
I lasted 20 mins when it threw me and I was replaced due to injury .
Learnt a valuable lesson that day don’t lie on your cv
Is there even a point of including your gcse’s if you have a degree?
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