Do employers care about you taking hard classes in college?

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>Do employers care about you taking hard classes in college? If you took mainly medium difficulty classes, will employers view this as not challenging yourself or do they only look at your GPA and not care? and if employers do care, how would they care the difficulty of a hard core psychology class to a hard core engineering class?</p>

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<p>Generally speaking, if you look at the company you want to work for and if you see that they heavily recruit students from your school, they will probably know your curriculum and it will play a factor into your chances. But at the same time, if you had to pick fairly easy-average classes and get straight As versus taking crazy hard classes and getting straight Cs, you should go for the former. Crazy classes look good if you get a B and wonderful if you get an A. But this is assuming the company you want to work for knows the difficulty of the classes at your college.</p>

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<p>I imagine that it’s a combination of the classes you take (harder or easier, more or fewer, technical or non-technical, etc.) and how you do in them (in-major gpa, cumulative gpa, etc.)</p>

<p>If you feel that you have taken any hard classes that the employer should know about, mention it on your resume. Generally speaking, taking advanced undergraduate and graduate courses would look better than, say, freshman-level classes.</p>

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<p>As long as your major isn’t something that could be labeled as a BS (********) degree than I would say not really. </p>

<p>If they see a high GPA they know that you know how to work. Your GPA will get you the interview, but people think that once they have that they’re golden. If you go in with a 4.0 in your schools best department but you are a bump on a log, you’re not going to get hired.</p>

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<p>In my business we look closely at each and every transcript for challenging work and certain classes we want to see.</p>

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<p>thanks for the replies! Hmom5: do you guys really research each college to figure out which classes are challenging? What’s your business field? and if you don’t mind, could you give some examples of the “certain classes”?</p>