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Importance of degree classification after first job
I have an offer to join the grad scheme of a top investment bank as a software developer.
I am wondering if my future career is likely to be affected if I only acheive a 2.2, or if degree classification is only important for getting onto a grad scheme.
Any ideas?
I am wondering if my future career is likely to be affected if I only acheive a 2.2, or if degree classification is only important for getting onto a grad scheme.
Any ideas?
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I have an offer to join the grad scheme of a top investment bank as a software developer.
I am wondering if my future career is likely to be affected if I only acheive a 2.2, or if degree classification is only important for getting onto a grad scheme.
Any ideas?
I am wondering if my future career is likely to be affected if I only acheive a 2.2, or if degree classification is only important for getting onto a grad scheme.
Any ideas?
Perhaps I will get shot down for this, but by talking to parents and family members in very good jobs, a degree is just a stepping stone.
GCSEs let you progress to A levels, A levels let you get into uni, and a degree gets you your first 1/2 jobs.
If any industry was going to get ansy about a 2:2 I would have thought it would be the Investment Banks, but since you've made it into those, I don't forsee a problem later in life.
Each time you make a step, it makes the step you were just on of little importance.
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Perhaps I will get shot down for this, but by talking to parents and family members in very good jobs, a degree is just a stepping stone.
GCSEs let you progress to A levels, A levels let you get into uni, and a degree gets you your first 1/2 jobs.
If any industry was going to get ansy about a 2:2 I would have thought it would be the Investment Banks, but since you've made it into those, I don't forsee a problem later in life.
Each time you make a step, it makes the step you were just on of little importance.
GCSEs let you progress to A levels, A levels let you get into uni, and a degree gets you your first 1/2 jobs.
If any industry was going to get ansy about a 2:2 I would have thought it would be the Investment Banks, but since you've made it into those, I don't forsee a problem later in life.
Each time you make a step, it makes the step you were just on of little importance.
Nope...you won't get shot down for this because its absolute common sense...
Experience in general is everything...getting there is the hardest part.
Reply 4
I would of thought in the City and the corporate world they would be elitist and therefore accept only 2:1s+
So long as you a) stick at the first job for the appropriate length of time, b) make a decent go of it and c) move on to something progressing from the job, rather than a change of tack based on your degree, then you degree classification is likely to be irrelevant after your first job.
Reply 6
I guess it makes sense that for really competitive jobs with loads of applicants, going to a top uni and getting a 1st/2.1 is going to be an advantage, but a degree on its own is never enough. You need experience as well, so if you get this with the investment banking job you've been offered, you should be fine if you want to change jobs after that, as long as you stick at it for a reasonable period of time and get a good reference.
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